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 their public announcements on their website and via RSS feeds before any other public communication - before the press release, … [Read more...] about Sun Microsystems lowers the bar on financial communication
Archives for July 2007
Cuts from FIR #262
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?) … [Read more...] about Cuts from FIR #262
The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #262: July 30, 2007
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 business value among Web 2.0 apps; B2B marketers' Web 2.0 preferences; Sun Microsystems announces financial results first on the web and via RSS; what UK educators are doing in Second Life: survey; transparency … [Read more...] about The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #262: July 30, 2007
You are the presentation
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 uses Steve Jobs as a great example of an engaging communicator where, no matter the wow! factors of the Apple products he's talking about and the cool audio-visual aids he uses, he is the centre of attention. He is the … [Read more...] about You are the presentation
Do I get a Dell, a Sony or something else?
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 machine I take with me on my travels, not the primary PC I use daily (that's a Dell XPS Gen 5 desktop). But with only 16 megs of video memory (that's megs not gigs), it just can't cut it running some of the graphics-intensive apps I … [Read more...] about Do I get a Dell, a Sony or something else?
The big ban on employees accessing Facebook
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 enabled them to conditionally use the social networking site. It seems, though, that A&O are very much in a minority with their eventual but realistic approach to such sites, as prohibiting and preventing employee … [Read more...] about The big ban on employees accessing Facebook
From cheating and lying to betterment
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 business, communication and technology areas that I'm interested in. Quite a few items in my 'Of Interest' folder in FeedDemon. More still in specific watch lists I've set up to automatically track references to certain keywords and phrases. Some … [Read more...] about From cheating and lying to betterment
Introducing FIR Cuts
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 30 minutes over that magical 60-minute mark. (Update: Since April 2010, the Hobson and Holtz Report has been published weekly, with the show length up to 90 minutes.) In order to accomplish this feat, we routinely … [Read more...] about Introducing FIR Cuts