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 5 and a PR disaster; evolution of the social network; where is your social map? asks Loic Le Meur; new free business search engine from Northern Light; news about … [Read more...] about The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #332: March 31, 2008
Archives for March 2008
Everything in the world is just fine
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 post at The Editors to say so, including my only critique that the use of two BBC logos so close together clashed visually. Being the BBC and how so many people have strong opinion about what they do, the announcement post has attracted a lot of … [Read more...] about Everything in the world is just fine
Blogging simplified with WordPress 2.5
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 do need to do some advance preparations before clicking that button; more on that in a minute. The first thing you notice about WordPress 2.5 is the spiffy new look and feel of … [Read more...] about Blogging simplified with WordPress 2.5
The failure of BA’s T5 promise
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 T5: cancelled flights, nightmare baggage handling (BA already has a pretty poor track record with baggage handling), passengers sleeping overnight in the terminal building, confused employees, angry travellers, … [Read more...] about The failure of BA’s T5 promise
Cuts from FIR #331
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 FIR Cuts?) … [Read more...] about Cuts from FIR #331
The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #331: March 27, 2008
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; lawsuit filed against Cisco for employee blogger posts; bad PR practice isn't about new media training; Bell Canada's internal 'blog jams'; advertising: URLs out, search boxes in; … [Read more...] about The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #331: March 27, 2008
Upcoming events: April
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 Media. Stockholm, April 16-17, 2008. Keynote speaker on Apr 16; leading social media workshop on Apr 17. Register online. New Communications Forum 2008. Santa Rosa, CA, USA, April 22-25, 2008. Speaking via … [Read more...] about Upcoming events: April
Rebranding the French presidency
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 6-minute Qik video I did to get a feeling of that - I was struck by much of the TV commentary. The usual kind of stuff you'd expect to hear spoken about what you're seeing on TV at that moment. But mixed in, talk about Sarkozy's … [Read more...] about Rebranding the French presidency