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One of the more rewarding aspects of business podcasting is when you get an opportunity to interview some interesting and influential communicators and other business people.
That’s a privilege my podcasting partner Shel Holtz and I have been enjoying since we started our For Immediate Release podcast series in 2005.
One such example is the FIR Interview [...]

The tech business news this weekend has been all about the collapse of the Microsoft takeover bid for Yahoo.
Every shade of opinion on what it all means has been offered during the past 24 hours, as the Techmeme bubble can attest.
Here in the UK, it’s been a top headline news item on the hour [...]

Who gets the last laugh? asks Nick Robinson, the BBC’s political editor, in a summary yesterday of the campaign and result of the 2008 election for London mayor.
As everyone now knows, Boris Johnson won the contest and officially takes on the job at midnight tonight.
Johnson defeated incumbent Ken Livingstone who has been mayor for [...]

 
When I lead workshops, seminars and other professional development events that address social media and organizational communication, I always ask who’s heard of the term ‘Web 2.0.’
Usually, a reasonable number have, often as much as 20 percent of participants if the overall audience is a non-geeky crowd.
Things then get interesting when I show an image [...]

Channel 4 broadcast a hard-hitting report on Monday by its Dispatches investigative reporting team on the UK mobile phone business.
Allegations of sharp practices by mobile phone retailers (an outfit called Phones4U came under especially severe criticism), denial of responsibility by mobile operators when things go wrong with changing contracts, and government collusion to keep voice [...]

Like most bloggers I know, I tend to link to information resources online when I’m writing about a particular topic.
One reason is simply that linking to an explanation of something provides a reader of your content with an opportunity to find out more, or see something in more depth, without you the blogger having [...]

Maybe the question is better phrased as: has the desire to learn how to produce podcasts for business died?
I’m wondering this because two public events about podcasting I’d been due to speak at during the next month have been cancelled because of lack of interest.
The first one was a big surprise which I heard about [...]

One of my reflections on Disruptive Media, the conference in Stockholm last week in which I participated, is that being part of an event where everyone speaks a language that you don’t can present a few challenges.
Luckily, this is Sweden I’m talking about where, just as in the Netherlands, people go out of their [...]

Last year it was Facebook. Today’s shiny new object unquestionably is Twitter.
If you haven’t heard of Twitter (it’s now just about in the mainstream), it’s simple to describe:
Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are [...]

The next few weeks are a busy time for speaking at events. I’ve just updated my Events page to add new detail to some of the events I’m involved with.
If you’re thinking about participating in a social media-focused conference or workshop during this second half of April, I have a few (entirely subjective) recommendations!

Disruptive Media: [...]