Content summary: Next FIR Live on BlogTalk Radio on April 19; Josh Hallett and Mike Manuel in London on April 12; Lee Hopkins’ Australasian perspective on web traffic, and more; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; update on company attitudes towards employees online; the world’s unfavourite airline: British Airways, Terminal…
Today the BBC unveiled a new look to the BBC News website. It’s a refreshing update. I visit very few websites these days and BBC News is one of them (it’s actually the home page in my browser). I like the new design. I left a comment (#75) on the…
I’ve upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.5, the latest version of the content management system released yesterday. For me, upgrading was simplicity itself as I used the 1-click install procedure provided by my hosting service, DreamHost. Literally one click and, fifteen minutes later, the blog is upgraded. Of course, you…
Watching the unfolding PR disaster for British Airways over the catastrophe surrounding the new Terminal 5 at Heathrow airport during the past 48 hours, one word springs to mind. Expectations. For the past day and a half, the newspapers and TV news have been full of images of chaos at…
Overflow from FIR #331 on March 27: 1-Minute News Forrester opens technographic data The real roadblocks to data portability on social networks Download FIR Cuts MP3s – Technographic (2:54) | Portability (4:58). If you want to automatically receive FIR Cuts as they’re published, subscribe to the RSS feed. (What are…
Content summary: New FIR Book Review and FIR Interview podcasts coming in April; next FIR Live on BlogTalk Radio in planning; discussion: pros and cons of social media for small/medium business; Dan York reports on FriendFeed, the dark side of the internet, and more; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop;…
I was just updating the list of events I’m either speaking at or participating in as an attendee. There is an awful lot going on in the next three months with events focused on social media. Highlighting those I’m involved with in April: Disruptive Media: From Mass Media to Micro…
French president Nicolas Sarkozy is in the UK on a state visit, the first by a French leader in over a decade. Watching the BBC News 24 live coverage this morning of his arrival at Windsor Castle for all the pomp and ceremony associated with such occasions – see this…
