There’s an interesting interview with Rick Wagoner, the chairman and CEO of General Motors, by Andrew English in yesterday’s Telegraph Motoring. If you follow news and events surrounding GM and the American auto industry, you’ll find it a highly readable […]
Month: January 2009
I bought a ticket for the National Lottery’s Lotto prize draw yesterday. It’s the first time in well over a year that I’ve played the Lotto game. So I don’t have any magic formula, no treasured numbers that have proven […]
I had an email from Apple this morning, asking me to take a brief survey regarding my recent sorry experience with my iPhone which was replaced under warranty last week. “Dear Apple Customer,†it began. “Apple would like to get […]
Iain Dodsworth, London-based developer of TweetDeck – one of the the hottest apps built on the back of Twitter, to help you manage your Twitter community – is securing funding of $500,000 in an angel investment round led by US-based […]
FIR correspondent Dan York interviews Martin Murray, primary spokesperson for utility Public Service New Hampshire, about the use of social media as a communication channel during a recent ice storm. Get this podcast: Download the MP3 file (13.9Mb, 30:23) Get […]
Content summary: Upcoming FIR Interviews; next FIR Live on BlogTalk Radio on Feb 7; Neville’s webinar today for IABC; Dan York reports from Keene, New Hampshire; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: the importance of simplicity, Al-Jazeera […]
At the end of this post, you’ll notice a little image saying ‘share.’ If you move your mouse over it, it will expand and display the logos of a few place that you see here where you can share the […]
A friend asked me two questions yesterday, about business communication-related issues in the coming year. Both came in direct messages via Twitter. Apart from everything else Twitter is, it’s also a tool that keeps you refreshingly focused on brevity and […]
We call it a CV in the UK but it’s a good start to Robert Scoble’s 18+ tips in If you are laid off, here’s how to socially network. 1. Your blog is your resume. You need one and it […]
Marshall Kirkpatrick writes a very interesting post at ReadWriteWeb entitled “RIP Enterprise RSS.†The essence of his argument is that demand for RSS simply never arose and that the market is over. I’m in the UK and largely agree with […]
Last Thursday January 8, an earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale struck Costa Rica in Central America. My wife Laura and I have a strong interest in Costa Rica as we have family there and, indeed, lived there during […]
Content summary: How to subscribe to FIR; upcoming FIR Interview with Jack O’Dwyer; Michael Netzley reports from Singapore; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: the reputation and ethics of Lloyds TSB bank under a spotlight, Ogilvy PR […]