Over the next few months, I’m leading a couple of half-day workshops for the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) as part of their CIPR Masterclass training programme. The first of these takes place on February 26 at the CIPR’s headquarters in central London. Under the catchy heading of "New…
Content summary: FIR Listener Contest closes Jan 25; FIR live on BlogTalk Radio Feb 9; Shel travels; Neville speaking today at Bulldog Reporter audio conference; Dan York reports on data portability, OpenID, and more; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; UPS blog monitoring; headline findings from Edelman’s 2008 Trust Barometer…
Last week’s billing mistake by server hosting company DreamHost caused a lot of grief to a lot of people. Every customer, it seems. I’m one of those customers and I was hit for the double billing which saw $340 unexpectedly charged to my credit card. The wrong amount and at…
At yesterday’s launch in London of Edelman’s 2008 Trust Barometer, I did a little experiment with live mobile video that was so easy to do that it’s very clear we’re going to see a great deal more of this. Take a look at this video – Edelman CEO Richard Edelman…
Content summary: FIR Listener Contest closes Jan 25; FIR live on BlogTalk Radio Feb 9; Eric Schwartzman interviews Harvard Scholar Kevin Lewis on his sociology study about Facebook usage; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; social media and addressing big questions at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week;…
Being able to record video of something and then share it with lots of people – YouTube, anyone? – isn’t a new idea by any means. It seems there are any number of video sharing services that you can sign up for and use – see this long list by…
I realized the other day that I’d been remiss in not updating the list of events in which I will be speaking or presenting in the next few months. Now done. In fact, I’ve re-structured the page on which I list such information, under Events, a more logical label. That’s…
My main desktop PC is a Dell XPS Gen5. Runs Windows Vista Ultimate, installed last April. Great computer except for peculiar behaviour when everything on screen freezes up, which happens when… well, just about any time. Tried to figure it out myself. No luck. Spent hours googling and searching on…
