Yesterday, Sun Microsystems reported their financial results for 2007. A routine communication activity for a publicly-listed company, with a press release, earnings call and presentation for the financial community, employee communication, interviews with journalists, conversations with shareholders, etc. Most definitely not routine was the way they did it by making…
Overflows from today’s FIR #262: Top global brands ranked according to BusinessWeek/Interbrand survey Google updates Google Earth Enterprise If you want to automatically receive FIR Cuts as they’re published, subscribe to the RSS feed. (What are FIR Cuts?)
Content summary: You can contribute to the show notes wiki; vote for FIR in the Podcast Awards 2007; what listeners think of FIR Cuts; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Lee Hopkins reports on The Age of the Vanishing Context, and the Annual Pig and Pussy Hunt; RSS has highest…
PowerPoints are not your presentation, says Bert Decker in a post that gets across a point that anyone who ever needs to communicate with a group of people should bear in mind – you are the presentation and the PowerPoint deck or other media is purely your visual aid. Decker…
I’ve held out but I now have to face the inevitable – my venerable IBM T30 Thinkpad laptop just doesn’t deliver the goods any more and I have to replace it. It’s been a terrific computer during the past four years. For the past couple of years, it’s been the…
Earlier this month, in FIR #254, Shel and I discussed quite an interesting story of what one company did regarding employee access to and use of Facebook. That story, of the law firm Allen and Overy’s Facebook U-turn, is a good example of how a company listened to employees and…
One of the great things about RSS readers, and FeedDemon in particular, is how they enable you to see what’s going on in your areas of interest easily and quickly. So in the space of 20 minutes or so this morning, I’ve got up to speed in most of the…
An opportunity to hear what you won’t hear in the Hobson and Holtz Report. Your “For Immediate Release” co-hosts go to great lengths to ensure the twice-weekly podcast comes in at around an hour; we know that most of our listeners can’t deal with shows running 15, 20, or even…
