Content summary: Join the FIR Facebook community; FIR #250 is soon; a bunch of ‘FIR Interview’ podcasts coming; IABC ConferenceCasts get underway; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; a social media job description; Bruce Willis joins the conversation; the FanLib.com kerfuffle; the Melcrum Communicators’ Network debuts; it’s that time again:…
If you use an offline blog editor like ecto or BlogJet, and the server hosting your WordPress blog uses PHP version 5.2.2, you might encounter the problem I have for the past 24 hours. What happened was that every time I wanted to publish a post to this WordPress blog…
Die Hard 4, the latest film in the Die Hard series of Bruce Willis action movies – known as ‘Live Free or Die Hard’ in the US – premieres in the US on June 27 (opens in the UK on July 4), and the movie studio mass communication machine is…
Hard on the heels of MyRagan.com launched by Ragan Communications earlier this month comes the Melcrum Communicators’ Network from London-based research and training firm Melcrum. Perhaps ‘launched’ isn’t the right word as Melcrum don’t plan any specific announcements, relying instead on word of mouth to drive up awareness of the…
The Money Programme will be the first BBC Television programme broadcast in virtual online world Second Life, according to a BBC press release last week: […] Reporter Max Flint and his spiky-haired alter-ego, MP Masala, travel deep into cyberspace to meet its virtual entrepreneurs, and find out how real fortunes…
FeedDemon is the Windows desktop RSS application I’ve been using for the past few years. And for the past few months, I’ve been testing the various betas of the upcoming new version 2.5. The final product was quietly released last Friday. I’ve just noticed an announcement on the product page…
Last December, I wrote a pretty scathing post about Dolphin Music in which I vented my anger at the company’s poor customer service. I entitled that post “Recommendation: Don’t buy from Dolphin Music.” Today I added some new content at the beginning of the post and changed the title to…
I’m speaking at some terrific conferences in the first half of June that might interest you, whatever area of organizational communication you’re involved with. On Tuesday June 5, Delivering The New PR 2.0 takes place in central London. This is the second in the latest series of one-day events from the University…
