Content summary: FIR Interview with Forrester Research posted; still time to enter the FIR Listener Contest; discussion: Twitter, British Airways and an aircraft emergency; discussion: Ford's and Hasbro's approaches to protecting trademarks and brands; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; new services help bloggers bring in ad revenue; DreamHost's communication informality crosses a line for some customers; Dan York reports with an update on addressing online attacks on your business … [Read more...] about The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #311: January 17, 2008
Archives for January 2008
FIR Interview: Forrester Principal Analyst Erica Driver on Virtual Worlds – Jan 16, 2008
Virtual worlds such as Second Life are often dismissed as venues for business, but a recent study by Forrester - Getting Real Work Done in Virtual Worlds - paints a different picture. Instead of focusing on the marketing efforts that have occupied most media coverage of virtual worlds, the report delves into the role these three-dimensional environments can play in workplace collaboration, simulations, and other day-to-day business activities that generally require face-to-face … [Read more...] about FIR Interview: Forrester Principal Analyst Erica Driver on Virtual Worlds – Jan 16, 2008
Be prepared for popularity
I was thinking about who I would follow to see what's going on at Macworld 2008 in San Francisco as the world awaits The Word from Steve on what Apple will be delivering. Maybe what's in his leaked keynote address, or not. That will be known imminently. So very unfortunate timing to see, at 5:20pm, that Twitter has crashed. Jaiku is throwing up occasional '504 Gateway Timeout' errors but largely the service is up. I thought I'd take a look at the Macworld website to see what's happening there … [Read more...] about Be prepared for popularity
The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #310: January 14, 2008
Content summary: Upcoming FIR Interview with Forrester Research; the FIR Discussion Forum heats up; discussion: the different types of communication crises with comment from Michael Allison; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Ogilvy and BzzAgent form alliance; DRM is dead but digital watermarks rise from its ashes; social networking update; Hillary Clinton and young voters; Lee Hopkins reports on Janitor2.0, testing an online business building system, and fear and anger as keys to … [Read more...] about The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #310: January 14, 2008
Pluck on Demand
Opportunities in live blogging with CoverItLive
This looks very interesting - CoverItLive, a free web service that enables you to live blog an event using a full range of rich media content: text, audio, video, images, etc, that you can embed into your own site. You can then save the whole live blog so you'll have a record of everything that happened during the event. An immediate thought is what a useful tool to live blog from a conference (for instance). But I wonder what conference organizers and conference goers will think of that. … [Read more...] about Opportunities in live blogging with CoverItLive
Tips on microphones and related podcast questions
As a podcaster, I often do interviews and other audio recordings when on the road. Clients' offices, in hotels, airports, at conferences, you name the place, opportunities often arise for recording a conversation that may end up as a podcast. My preferred portable audio recorder remains the Microtrack 24/96, about which I wrote an enthusiastic review in 2006 just after I bought it. My enthusiasm for it hasn't dimmed in spite of the product support issue (resolved) I had with the supplier I … [Read more...] about Tips on microphones and related podcast questions
Next, not just the here and now
I started a new blog this weekend, called Next. It's a place where I'll write about tech - hardware, software, social media, the net, mobile, Web 2.0, gadgets, and more - as I continue my own journey of discovery and satisfying my curiosity about technology, what it means to people and how we communicate. It doesn't replace this blog, NevilleHobson.com, which remains my primary place on the net. A little more on why I started Next is in the blog's About page. So this post is simply to let … [Read more...] about Next, not just the here and now