Kudos to Jeremy Pepper for securing a blog interview with Lord Chadlington, aka Peter Gummer, the ex-journalist, PR man and brother of John Gummer, British Conservative politician (and minister in John Major’s government in the early 1990s). Chadlington is a founder of Shandwick, now Weber Shandwick, one of the big PR agencies and part of […]
Do people hate Oracle?
In an analysis in The Register, Philip Howard of Bloor Research discusses the database market and how vendors like IBM, Computer Associates and Microsoft are targeting Oracle and seeing weaknesses in the latter’s marketing (among other things). He says: […] Is it because [competitors] (and others) see weaknesses in Oracle? I don’t see how Oracle […]
Volkswagen monitors auto industry trends with blog tool
Techdirt has published a case study on how they have worked with the Electronic Research Lab of car maker Volkswagen to provide them with a customized, private blog of news and analysis concerning a variety of technologies and trends that impact the automotive industry. VW need to stay on top of all kinds of new […]
Anything could happen today
About to head off to Blognomics, a half-day conference on how new media channels like blogs can play a significant role in marketing, communication, PR, business and product development. It’s taking place at the RAI conference center here in Amsterdam, just a 10-minute bike ride away from my office. And it’s a gorgeous day today […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #26: April 21, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments (on not knowing what to think about blogs; recording on an iPod; on enjoying open source marketing interview; more on character blogs; screencasting and Camtasia; on IBM intranets and good publicity; suggestions for transcribing interviews; syndicating RSS content; from our Australia correspondent); report on the Blognomics conference; don’t dismiss press releases; […]
Talk and images about Blognomics
Yesterday’s Blognomics conference at the RAI conference center in Amsterdam was a terrific event. With about 85 participants, there were so many great people to meet. I commented about it in yesterday’s edition of the Hobson & Holtz Report podcast, so I won’t repeat all that here in a post. If you’d like to listen […]
Catholic Insider podcasting rig
A special invited guest at yesterday’s Blognomics conference in Amsterdam was Father Rodrick Vonhogen of the Catholic Insider podcast, the one that’s been top of the downloads hit parade on Podcast Alley for some weeks. Father Rodrick couldn’t make it, unfortunately – he’s still in Rome podcasting from the Vatican – so he made a […]
Telling the business world about blogs
Now it’s getting completely mainstream. Business Week’s cover story in the 2 May edition is all about blogs. You can’t miss this one – just look at that cover! It looks like it’s the main feature story in all Business Week editions, not only the US edition. So wherever you are in the US, Europe, […]
Why every company should blog
I’ve just been reading the drafts of the four interviews that Shel Israel posted in the past few days on The Red Couch, the blog that’s the focal point for developing the book on blogs that Shel and Robert Scoble are writing. Those interviews are with Jonathan Schwartz, COO of Sun Microsystems; Bob Lutz, Vice […]
It’s all happening in France – Part 2
Just about to unplug the PC from the net so I can get going. Off to Paris on the Thalys where I’ll be participating in Les Blogs, the one-day conference about social networks, blogging, nanopublishing and where it’s all heading which takes place at the French Senate on Monday. I’ll be one of 257 participants […]
Hanging out in Paris
What a great day so far. Arrived in Paris mid afternoon, met up with David Tebbutt and off to our hotels. A socializing afternoon and evening in some fabulous company. As the pic shows, that’s me sandwiched in between Halley Suitt and Mary Hodder. Truly a thorn between two roses 😉 This was taken in […]
Les Blogs kicks off
It’s about 10:10 in Paris as I write this from the conference room at the French Senate where Le Blogs is taking place today. Started a little late – lots and lots of people to enter the Senate and all the security, etc – but we’re now well underway. Currently, Joi Ito is presenting about […]
Les Blogs quotes
I’m sitting next to Fredrik Wacka here at Les Blogs. Back row in the room, closest place to a power connection and a wireless access point. I’ve known Fredrik for about six months, but today’s the first time we’ve actually met face to face. That’s the nature of the new trust model – you don’t […]
Les Blogs afternoon
This afternoon at Les Blogs has had many of the characteristics you see in almost any kind of conference. You know, it’s after lunch, after the time you’ve spent meeting new people, seeing people you already know, chatting, etc. So everyone’s just a bit jaded and a little tired. Now it’s nearly 6:30pm and things […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #27: April 25, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments (on character blogs, recording with an ipod, our mention in the New Scientists article on Skype, FeedDemon, our review of Yahoo 360 and employer monitoring of employee e-mail and online activity); Les Blogs update; Business Week’s cover story, "Blogs Will Change Your Business," communication strategic planning, executive voice in a CEO […]
High speed travel
I’m on the Thalys high-speed train back to Amsterdam following an extremely worthwhile three days in Paris. I was at Les Blogs, about which I blogged a bit yesterday and about which I’ll start writing a more complete personal view while I’m on the train which I’ll post tomorrow. No network connection on this train […]
Size matters little
Size matters, right? As in “My X is bigger than your X.” So the bigger a thing is the more cool it is and, if you’re male, the more macho you are. Right? Well, how about “My X is smaller than your X”? In Paris this morning, David Tebbutt and I were discussing how devices […]
‘Social’ goes hand in hand with ‘network’
This morning, I was looking at some of the photos uploaded to Flickr by many of the 257 people who participated in Les Blogs. Some great photos, and a pleasure to view them. It isn’t so much the photos themselves that’s caught my attention, though. What did that is an amazing number – 1,200. That’s […]
RSS feed hijack!
A very peculiar thing with the RSS feeds for some of the blogs that I read has happened since yesterday. I use FeedDemon version 1.5 (the latest version). If you’re familiar with FeedDemon, you’ll know that you have channel groups that contain individual channels (the RSS feeds) of blogs you select to receive the feeds. […]
Top brands on the net
BBC News: eBay is the top brand name on the net, according to calculations by net monitoring company Envisional. It scored the highest in terms of how positively it is perceived on the net, compared to McDonald’s which had the most negative perception online. Envisional says the top ten brands – selected from the FTSE-100 […]