Glancing through this site’s visitor stats, I noticed a high number of inbound connections coming from Google searches on ‘cadbury recall products’ and ‘cadbury list of recalled products.’ Those searching arrived at “Cadbury product recall needs two-way dialogue,†a post I wrote in June 2006 regarding the salmonella contamination scare…
Content summary: FIR listener contest update; Podcamp Ireland; Michael Netzley in Singapore discusses transparency and trust in Asia; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits – which comes first: employees or customers?, mystery meetings, new books on crowd surfing and brands in networks, lessons learned when launching a…
Meet Tommy. He’s the star in a new campaign from Cancer Research UK to promote Breast Cancer Awareness Month which runs through October. Tommy is the ‘breast awareness guy,’ the focal point of a special website and starring in a tongue-in-cheek video in which a woman explains how best to…
The Cabinet Office official who left top-secret documents on a train in June is to be charged under the Official Secrets Act, the BBC reports. […] BBC defence correspondent Frank Gardner said the move would have come as a surprise to many in Whitehall. "They will have thought this was…
During the past week, Technorati has published a series of articles on the state of the blogosphere in 2008, the first such report in nearly 18 months. Like previous reports from Technorati, this latest one goes beyond just the raw numbers. It also includes brief interviews with some bloggers about…
Content summary: Enter the FIR listener contest and win free conference tickets; Dan York reports on tech tools Dropbox, IBM Bluehouse, and more; fancy a social media job at Ford’s world headquarters?; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; help Max Hansen launch the Alpha Mind podcast; News That Fits –…
A tweet from 3mobilebuzz this morning alerted me to some really sweet deals from mobile operator 3 regarding mobile broadband. Half-price offers! The one that interests me is the 18-month contract for 3’s USB E160G modem dongle with 5 gigs bandwidth allowance per month for just £7.50 instead of the…
I watched a good 40 minutes of Prime Minster Gordon Brown’s speech yesterday at the Labour Party conference in Manchester, broadcast live on BBC News. If you read the speech, I think you’ll agree that it’s pretty good as far as political speeches go, which are clearly designed as much…
