Content summary: Shel’s travelling; FIR Listener Contest winners to be announced on Feb 6; new FIR Interview posted; FIR live on BlogTalk Radio Feb 9; Dan York reports on podcasting gear, Facebook, and more; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; in conversation with Dave Briggs about BarcampUKGovWeb, and more; Subway/Quiznos…
My post yesterday about Qtrax drew some comments disagreeing that it is the PR disaster I’d characterized it as. Whether it is or not (and I think it is), let’s try this one on for size. Today, budget Irish airline Ryanair is in the public dock accused of crossing the…
I was reading a story on FT.com about eBay’s new measures to prevent fraud, and encountered a popup as I scrolled down the web page. I actually found this popup both useful and unobtrusive. In this particular case, as my mouse cursor rolled over a link in the story to…
Crisis communication is a hot topic. In episode #310 of The Hobson & Holtz Report on January 14, it was a primary discussion point, addressing the different types of communication crises. FIR co-host Shel Holtz expanded on that discussion with Crisis communication fundamentals, a post that looked at the roots…
Maybe a nail in the coffin for the advertising-supported music download business model. From The Times yesterday: A website which promised to give music lovers the world’s first legal file-sharing service was forced into a humiliating climbdown today after it emerged that the company had not secured the backing of…
Content summary: The FIR t-shirt SMS number; judging of entries begins on FIR Listener Contest; FIR live on BlogTalk Radio Feb 9; upcoming FIR Interviews; Lee Hopkins reports on a new portable digital recorder for podcasters, Dave Fleet’s Social Media Training wiki and the real meaning of Twitter; the Media…
The 2008 meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, wraps up today. One of the most interesting aspects of the meeting has been The Davos Question, the YouTube channel where a single question was posed: What one thing do you think that countries, companies or individuals must do…
I don’t write about politics in this blog even though it has a category/tag called Politics. Yet I’m becoming increasingly tempted to do so because there has been so much going on in just the past six months that prompts a wide sway of feelings, from disbelief to outright anger.…
