Niall Cook writes about a new report called How are corporate weblogs affecting public relations practice? that examines corporate blogging from a PR perspective, focusing on three questions: What are the benefits and risks of corporate blogging? What are the underlying theories that can increase understanding of corporate blogging? What are the best practices PR […]
Blogs: No substitute for personal communication and trust in the workplace
PR Week published a pretty good piece about policies and guidelines for employee blogging last week. The article includes much of the type of counsel and advice on why companies should have polices or guidelines that you’d expect to see now, given previous media reporting on this topic as well as the widely-reported examples of […]
Interview: Angela Sinickas and Tudor Williams – June 22, 2005
In this edition of For Immediate Release podcast interviews, Shel enjoyed a 49-minute conversation with Angela Sinickas, ABC and Tudor Williams, ABC, two of the leading internal communications measurement authorities in the business. About our conversation partners: A pioneer in the field of organizational communication measurement, Angela Sinickas has been measuring the effectiveness of communications […]
Ketchum starts to climb the mountain
They are paying attention after all – Adam Brown, director of eKetchum, leaves a comment on Constantin’s blog as a response to PR blogosphere criticism about Ketchum’s announcement last week on their new-media service offering. While I don’t want to continue any Ketchum-bashing, I will say that Adam’s response hardly addresses any of the criticisms […]
H&H Report available now, show notes tomorrow
Shel and I recorded today’s edition of For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report a little later than we usually do. The main reason was that I was late back this evening after participating in the 2nd Dutch Business Blog Meeting in Amsterdam, organized by Marco Derksen, at which I was a presenter (I’ll […]
NewsGator Online adds support for podcasts
One immediate user benefit from last month’s acquisition of FeedDemon by Newsgator is that a new version (beta) of FeedDemon’s FeedStation podcatcher was released yesterday which supports NewsGator Online and, soon, NewsGator Outlook Edition: […] FeedDemon has had cool podcasting support since v1.5, with a helper application called FeedStation. FeedStation did the work of downloading […]
Success for Dutch business blog meeting
One of the great things about presenting on new media communication channels to a group of people of which over 90% are active bloggers is that it certainly keeps you focused on the precise relevance of the points you’re making and which they’re expecting to hear about. That was very much the case yesterday when […]
Interview: Jochen Specht and Jim Lukach, Siemens USA, June 23, 2005
In this edition of For Immediate Release podcast interviews, Shel enjoyed a 28-minute conversation with Jochen Specht and Jim Lukach of Siemens USA addressing implementation of RSS feeds and blogs on the company’s intranet. About our conversation partners: Jochen Specht is Manager of Web Strategy for Siemens USA at the company’s Iselin, New Jersey (USA) […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #44: June 23, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments (on CEOs blogging internally; lower case is the way to go; KetchumIdeas; more on RSS; polls on blogs; getting the right URL; more on Ketchum; introducing The Spinfluencer); audio report on the power of gossip; better ways for doing podcast show notes; read your email out loud; more on Ketchum; Scandinavian […]
Microsoft really embraces RSS
Lots of buzz in the blogosphere and in mainstream media about the news today that Microsoft will be building support for RSS into Longhorn, the next release of the Windows operating system due in late 2006, and not only in the next version of Internet Explorer. Business Week Online has a good summary of today’s […]
Is this a record for HP toner longevity?
Printing out a draft this morning of a rather lengthy document I’d written and edited gave me pause for thought about my printer. My default printer is a Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 4L. Black and white, a basic laser printer. I bought it on 17 November 1994 (I can recall the precise date because there’s a little […]
Explaining it simply: Microsoft and RSS
Nearly all the reporting I’ve seen in blogs and mainstream media during the past 24 hours about Microsoft’s support for RSS has tended to be rather techie in its focus, including my own post. Here’s all most people really need to know about it, from a BBC News report last night: Microsoft’s next version of […]
Let the IABC conference blogging begin!
Probably the best professional development and networking event for business communicators, anywhere in the world, begins tomorrow 26 June in Washington, DC. It’s the IABC international conference, the annual get-together for hundreds of communicators from around the world. This year’s 4-day event is special from two perspectives – first, it’s IABC’s 35th anniversary year; and […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #45: June 27, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments (on wit and wisdom from FIR; being stunned by Tudor Williams and Angela Sinickas; the heroes from Siemens USA); nice London hotel: blogging the IABC conference; bad press for the EC and the waste of the EU; the PR, blogs and press releases mashup; MIT surveys blog usage; Todd Cochrane’s podcasting […]
Podcasting is no fad
A tip from Constantin Basturea led me to the new travel podcast site from airline Virgin Atlantic, launched last week. Produced for Virgin Atlantic by Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe/Y&R and Manning Gottlieb OMD, and created by podcast producer Loudish, the first topics in a series of podcasts – guides to New York – is available […]
Future Tense and the confluence of forces
Congratulations to Elizabeth Albrycht and the team at Corante for the latest thought-leading resource – the Future Tense blog which, Elizabeth as editor notes, is now live. What will we expect from Future Tense? From Elizabeth’s introductory post yesterday: […] It is [a confluence of forces including technology, science, population demographics, globalization, education, society and […]
Blogs are about interaction and influence
Great article in The Independent newspaper yesterday about blogs and the business benefits by James Cherkoff, the advocate for open source marketing. It’s a good overview of what’s happening and makes the case well. None of it will be news to anyone in the business blogging community, but will be a great starting point for […]
iTunes gives you podcasts on a plate
Apple has now released iTunes 4.9, the new version that supports podcasts. I’ve installed it and tried it – and it rocks. Let me tell you – for podcasters and podcast listeners, this is what simplicity looks like. With literally just a couple of mouse clicks you can subscribe to a podcast within iTunes, get […]
Flickr Pro gifts
I have two Flickr Pro accounts to give away. $24.95 value each. Deadline is 6pm CET tomorrow, 30 June. I’d be happy to give them to the first two people who email me with the correct answer to this question: Which bank has 120 internal blogs? The answer is here in this blog! Final decision […]
Accountants can blog, too
Blogs present many business benefits to accountants, according to The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). In the June issue of the Journal of Accountancy Online, AICPA’s journal, a feature entitled Would You, Could you, Should You Blog? gives a good overview of blogs and their business potential. Most of the reasoning in the […]