On Thursday, I travelled to Brussels, Belgium, to participate in the 50th anniversary conference of FEIEA, the federation of European business communicators’ associations. My role was to make a presentation on new media communication channels (blogs, RSS, etc) and participatory communication as a constituent part of FEIEA’s theme for this first day of their 2-day […]
Category: Weblogs
Naked Conversations is a cracking read
Earlier in the week, I received a copy of the galley proofs of Naked Conversations, the business blogging book by Shel Israel and Robert Scoble, due to hit the bookstore shelves next January. I’d actually imaged ‘galley proofs’ to be a set of individual pages or printouts complete with a guide on the symbols and […]
One stop for earnings call transcripts
One of the blogs I find of great informational value is The Internet Stock Blog (“news and analysis of Internet stocks, no buy or sell recommendations,” it says in its masthead). Recently, the blog started including a most useful new service – full transcripts of some of the most popular companies’ earnings conference calls. What’s […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #79: October 24, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments discussion (podcast artwork and iTunes; fake blogs; ‘sprawlopolis’; Blogger.com and Captcha; how to measure podcast listenership; what’s "The Giant Global Focus Group" at IABC EuroComm?); The Spinfluencer interviews Heather Green; Neville guests on Britcaster podcast #3; anonymous Publix employee blog vanishes; measuring blog effectiveness; Guidewire responds to blog survey criticisms; PRSA […]
Les Blogs 2.0 will change the way you think
If you’re planning to join the more than 120 people already signed up to participate in Les Blogs 2.0 in Paris on 5-6 December, get clear in your mind right now that this will be no ordinary conference: A New World is here Don’t you feel the rules and our world are changing ? Don’t […]
Video presentation on PR and the blogosphere
In mid October, I participated in a session at the Emerce eDay conference in Amsterdam entitled Public Relations in the Blogosphere. The session comprised two presentations followed by a panel discussion. The two presentations were made by Scott Rafer and I, and were video recorded. That video is now online and you can view it […]
Older posts now showing up in Google Blog Search
When Google blog search launched in September, it only indexed blog posts from about mid 2005: […] Since Blog Search indexes blogs by their site feeds, it will only include items that have been posted since it started indexing a given blog. For most blogs, that will be around June 2005, or the time at […]
Scott (Dilbert) Adams has a blog
This made my lunchtime! As a big fan of the Dilbert cartoons strips and an old subscriber to the Dilbert email newsletter, it’s terrific to discover that Dilbert’s creator Scott Adams started blogging earlier this week. Finally you have a chance to get to know a little about Dilbert’s creator and more insight into his […]
TypePad’s growing pains
TypePad seems to creaking under the strain of its own success. For some weeks now, I’ve been observing (and experiencing) constant server timeout problems when posting to this blog. And I’m not the only TypePad user who’s in this position. In July, I posted with some frustration on the constant difficulties I encountered at that […]
Shallow journalism at Forbes magazine
When you see a business magazine story about blogs with the title “Attack of The Blogs!,” you should know what to expect. A cover story in the latest edition of Forbes magazine doesn’t disappoint as this paragraph indicates: […] Blogs started a few years ago as a simple way for people to keep online diaries. […]
New editor asks for opinions
In taking up his new role next month as editor of The Guardian Technology supplement, freelance journalist Charles Arthur is doing something quite smart – asking readers for their opinions on how he should shape the newspaper under his editorship. Terrific use of a blog by a journalist as an ‘engagement engine’ with a newspaper’s […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #80: October 27, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments discussion (creating a reverse thesaurus; what’s in a name: ‘business continuity planning’; more on hearing about blogs; Libsyn glitches with podcast downloads); Yahoo RSS white paper; faux research from Advertising Age; the use of blogs during labour disputes; TypePad has service problems from rapid growth; OpenOffice 2.0 is out; Waxmail for […]
The blogger two heartbeats from the US President
I saw the news the other day that Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the US House of Representatives, started blogging. Interesting, I thought, even though the blog doesn’t have an RSS feed nor a way to leave comments. So I blogrolled it for a look now and again and moved on. Until I saw this comment […]
Podcast interview with Forbes
An interesting follow-up to the Forbes shallow journalism story (my unrepentant description) yesterday which described how the magazine portrayed blogs and bloggers as the source of all evil. In a comment yesterday to Steve Rubel’s critical post, podcaster John Furrier says he’s interviewing Forbes’ proprietor Steve Forbes about the benefits of social media: On Monday […]
TypePad and the art of patience
Probably similar to every TypePad customer, I received an email over the weekend from Six Apart CEO Barak Berkowitz with more commentary on what Six Apart is doing to sort out the service issues arising from TypePad’s growing pains. It’s good communication to customers and does give you a better sense of the scale of […]
Smart advice for PRs engaging with bloggers
In an article published online today, PR Week gives some sound advice to PR professionals on how to engage and work with bloggers. The article includes some excellent quotes from some in the PR profession. Two examples: Sarah Bresee, account executive, OutCast Communications: “I think that a lot of people are afraid of blogs in […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #81: October 31, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments discussion; launch interview with Jen McClure of Society for New Communciations Research; Forbes magazine attacks blogs; minding the conversation gap; Lee Hopkins report. Show notes for October 31, 2005 Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, an 86-minute conversation recorded live from Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Concord, California, […]
IABC conference blog launched
Today The Plenary Panel Weblog launched. This new blog is designed to be a place for commentary and discussion about the theme of the panel discussion that will kick off the first day, 1 December, of the IABC EuroComm 2005 conference taking place in Paris from 30 November to 2 December. The theme for the […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #82: November 2, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments; Euroblogs survey; Steve Rubel and the cancer blog; speaking engagements; the anti-women ad executive who resigned; Bacon’s cluelessness; Panasonic’s character blog; Arla Foods three blogs; Dan York’s Report; pimping for podcast votes; and more. Show notes for November 2, 2005 Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, an […]
Updated list of European corporate blogs
Fredrik Wacka, who writes the popular CorporateBloggingInfo blog, updated his list of European corporate blogs last week. The updated list includes blogs by organizations in Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and UK. This is a very useful resource, complementary to the strongly US-focused list […]