Month: November 2008

  • Getting social in Barcelona

    A pre crack-of-dawn flight from Gatwick tomorrow will take me to Barcelona, Spain, and the New Media in Marketing & Communications Strategy conference that starts tomorrow Wednesday November 26 and runs through the end of Thursday November 27. The event…

  • Spam blogging by any other name

    I’m sure there will be some people who sign up for WordPressDirect who will do so thinking it presents a quick and easy way to crank out blog posts with minimum effort. Looking through the website, though, it seems to…

  • FIR Interview: Chuck Hester, iContact, on tapping into the power of LinkedIn

    LinkedIn, the business social network, has surged to 30 million profiles, most of them for business people with titles of director or higher. Still, a lot of people get their LinkedIn accounts, expand their networks, then wonder what to do…

  • Cuts from FIR #400

    Overflow from FIR #400 on November 24: News That Fits Referenced content: Is LinkedIn a threat or an opportunity for investor relations? The best and worst of communications Traffic soars for financial blogs but will it last? Google SearchWiki: Love…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #400: November 24, 2008

    Content summary: This is the 400th episode: thanks to sponsors Ragan Communications and CustomScoop, and correspondents Lee Hopkins, Dan York, David Phillips, Eric Schwartzman, Sallie Goetsch, Michael Netzley, plus all members of the FIR community; about this Thursday’s show; Michael…