Month: January 2009

  • Truth and consequences about trust

    On the basis that a picture is worth a thousand words, the chart below speaks loudly and clearly about the decline in trust in businesses that’s practically uniform in almost all the 20 countries included in the Edelman 2009 Trust…

  • FIR Cut: Social software round-up

    Overflow from FIR #417 on January 26, 2009. Social software round-up: The New Twhirl (preview release) for Team Seesmic-Twhirl Chat Catcher: Blog comments happen everywhere… PingPressFM: My real-time personal newswire Blubrry Powerpress Podcast Plugin from RawVoice: updated Download this podcast…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #417: January 26, 2009

    Content summary: Shel’s returning from Hawaii; congrats to Scott Monty; next FIR Live on Blogtalk Radio on Feb 7; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: journalists say frustration with PR websites kills media stories, scandal over a…

  • Watching the Watchmen

    I’m watching with great interest some of the social media communication Dan Light is involved with as part of the marketing for Watchmen, a movie about American superheroes based on a DC Comics series, due out in the UK on…

  • Does Google Friend Connect have a point?

    Early last month, I signed up for Google Friend Connect, the service that Google says lets you offer visitors to your site the means to be part of a community. It’s great, I think, as in a very short space…