Today is Queen's Day in The Netherlands (Koninginnedag in Dutch), the day that celebrates the birthday of Queen Juliana, the current Queen's mother. As this day falls on a Sunday, the day of celebrations - flea markets and street parties everywhere - took place yesterday, the 29th. As has been the case in previous years, my wife Laura and I were out and about in Amsterdam with a group of friends enjoying the sights, sounds and atmosphere. I took some 80 or so photos, all of which you can see … [Read more...] about Queen’s Day fun in Amsterdam
Archives for April 2006
Converting Skype voicemail to MP3
I discovered a neat trick with Skype voicemail - how to convert a phone message from Skype's proprietary audio format into an MP3 file which you can then use in other applications or share it with others. Skype does not offer a way that you can export a voicemail message to a universal file format such as MP3 or WAV. From the Skype Knowledgebase: Can I export my messages to .mp3 or .wav files?Not at this time, but it is something we are looking into. But there is a way as … [Read more...] about Converting Skype voicemail to MP3
New intranet report includes social media
Melcrum Publishing has just published a research report entitled 'Transforming Your Intranet.' I got an email about it yesterday and my first thought was: yet another expensive report about intranets with the same old late-90s view about them and the org-chart approach on how to use them. But then I read the synopsis (PDF). And then I looked at who the authors are. And I concluded: this one looks very different. This is the first report of its type I've seen which includes a … [Read more...] about New intranet report includes social media
The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #132: April 27, 2006
Content summary: FIR Listener Survey update; IABC/Dallas podcast survey; communication conferences; connections and recording equipment; Southwest Airlines starts a blog; Lee Hopkins reports; BBC 2.0; Dan York reports; Waggener Edstrom blogging index; Jonathan Schwartz the first Fortune 500 CEO blogger; crisis communication and blogs; the FIR Schwag Shop opens; David Philips reports; listeners' comments discussion; the music, and more. Show notes for April 27, 2006 Welcome to For Immediate … [Read more...] about The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #132: April 27, 2006
Stock blogs network launched by AOL/Weblogs
AOL/Weblogs has launched a set of eight blogs that will include commentary and opinion about the stock of eight listed US companies - Apple, eBay, General Electric, Google, Microsoft, Time-Warner, Wal-Mart, and Yahoo. If you want to read about all the eight companies in one place, the aggregated blog BloggingStocks is the place to go. Why these companies? Here's why, from Weblogs' Jason Calacanis: [...] Today we launch the top eight most widely held stocks by AOL members … [Read more...] about Stock blogs network launched by AOL/Weblogs
33 wikis resource
If you want to find out how organizations are using wikis, the 33 wikis project from eastwikkers is a terrific place to start. This wiki includes detailed commentary and analysis on each of the 33 wikis listed. It aggregates that from the daily posts eastwikkers has been running for the past, well, 33 days into an online case study resource. Nice work, Giovanni and everyone at eastwikkers. … [Read more...] about 33 wikis resource
Exposing the past of BBC 2.0
One follow-up to my post yesterday about the BBC's plans for re-invention - the broadcaster has posted its complete catalogue online, which includes: Details of 946,614 BBC radio & TV programmes, dating back 75 years 503,193 subject categories, from Pig Farming to Pirate Radio 1,182,424 contributors, from Bruce Forsyth to Imelda Marcos This is a gigantic searchable database - there aren't any programmes themselves online. Writing about it yesterday, project … [Read more...] about Exposing the past of BBC 2.0
IE7: Good for users, good for developers
Like quite a few people, I've installed Internet Explorer 7 beta 2 that Microsoft released earlier this week as part of broadening out their beta testing programme of the new browser version to as wide an audience as possible. I like it and, compared to the earlier beta, it seems pretty stable. One big plus for this beta: it has a workable bookmark migrating tool like Firefox, so I was able to successfully import my lengthy lists of bookmarked sites - over 1,000 including RSS feeds aka … [Read more...] about IE7: Good for users, good for developers