When I lead workshops, seminars and other professional development events that address social media and organizational communication, I always ask who’s heard of the term ‘Web 2.0.’ Usually, a reasonable number have, often as much as 20 percent of participants if the overall audience is a non-geeky crowd. Things…
Channel 4 broadcast a hard-hitting report on Monday by its Dispatches investigative reporting team on the UK mobile phone business. Allegations of sharp practices by mobile phone retailers (an outfit called Phones4U came under especially severe criticism), denial of responsibility by mobile operators when things go wrong with changing contracts,…
Content summary: Reflections on FIR 339; Lee Hopkins’ transition and introducing Michael Netzley; great content in IABC Cafe2Go April podcast; Michael Netzley reports from Singapore on PR and digital media in Asia; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; does blogging need rules like journalism?; Twitter mashups; coming soon: Wikipedia the…
The movie version of the hit TV series Sex and the City opens in the UK later next month. Stars of the show look like being the range of Mercedes-Benz vehicles as much as Carrie, Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte. Yesterday’s Telegraph Motoring has a terrific feature on how and why…
What a rich resource for law students. Indeed, for anyone interested in the law and history of England: The long arm of the law now stretches across time: from tomorrow [April 28], the transcripts of every trial heard at the Old Bailey from 1674 to 1913 can be read online,…
I’m not a great reader of business books even though there are some 20 such volumes sitting on my office bookshelf, all read and mostly not remembered. Recently, though, there has been a slew of excellent and compelling business writing that is very much to do with a broad area…
I’ve been following the progress of a group of 20 British tech startups who have been in Silicon Valley this past week as part of Web Mission 2008. The trip – sponsored by HSBC Bank, UK Trade and Investment, TechCrunch, BT and Heller Ehrman Venture Law Group – was designed…
Content summary: Dan York and Sallie Goetsch are your guest co-hosts; NewComm Forum, including an audio segment from Shel; Twitter outage; One-Minute News: Enterprise Web 2.0 to become a $4.6 billion industry according to Forrester, Linden Lab gets a new CEO, Skype on PSP, podcasting in plain English; Podshow renamed…
