Month: March 2009
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Twitter in your GM car
An early April Fool’s Day joke, or the real deal? You judge. I was reading reports that General Motors is planning to offer Twitter capability for drivers who use the company’s OnStar security, communications, navigation and diagnostics system. GM offers…
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FIR Cut: Gartner report on newspapers and social media
Overflow from FIR #434 on March 26, 2009. A report from Gartner Research suggests newspaper publishers haven’t leveraged social media in such a way that papers’ biggest fans are able to serve as brand ambassadors. You can’t tweet an article…
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The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #434: March 26, 2009
Content summary: More troubles with FIR downloads; Shel’s in Texas; Dan York reports on mobile trends and the death of family identity, Cluetrain 10 years on; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; follow-up discussion on Robert Scoble and PR is…
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Disrupting mobile communications in the EU
With a title like this on the Europa website, there’s little doubting where Viviane Reding, the European Union’s Commissioner for Information Society and Media, stands on the thorny topic of forcing mobile operators to reduce the costs for mobile phone…
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If Jane Fonda sees the point, so can you
Doing a little research on ghost writing and ghost blogging for a client assignment, I came upon a simple perspective by Jane Fonda. The legendary actress, who started writing her blog in January (she’s also now on Twitter), has a…