Content summary: Neville was virtually at the IABC Brussels conference this afternoon; FIR Live #14 posted; first half of Hobson & Holtz interview up on Luke Armour's podcast; Dan York reports on amazing crazy times with bots, IM and more; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: some interesting launches, Domino's Pizza 40 days after Those Videos, more signs of social networking's ubiquity, how to be a Sky News iPhone reporter; Eric Schwartzman interviews Scott Deyager, … [Read more...] about The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #452: May 28, 2009
Archives for May 2009
How to be a Sky News iPhone reporter
European satellite TV company Sky News has launched an iPhone app that enables you to receive the broadcaster’s news and information content on your iPhone or iPod Touch. The free app offers a rich array of content including news, sport, business, weather and more in words, pictures and video. You can sign up to get SMS alerts to your iPhone – each alert you receive will cost you £0.25 – enabling you to keep in touch with events that interest you wherever you happen to be. It’s a … [Read more...] about How to be a Sky News iPhone reporter
Projecting to Brussels for IABC
Tomorrow afternoon, May 28, I’m going to be speaking at an event in Brussels organized by IABC Belgium. “Web 2 EU: Publication 2 Participation†is a half-day conference taking place at the Boston University in Brussels. I’ll be joining Charles Crouch, Helen Dunnett, Philip Weiss and Mathew Lowry to address a range of topics related to Web 2.0 and how to gain influence through wider engagement with people online. Nothing out of the ordinary with that, you will likely be thinking: a … [Read more...] about Projecting to Brussels for IABC
FIR Live #14, May 26, 2009: PR and lawyers
Content Summary: Communicators are often frustrated in their efforts to protect or restore an organization's reputation by attorneys who simply block any communication at all, or minimize the response. In today's FIR Live, attorney Jim Golden and crisis expert Helio Fred Garcia discuss the relationship between attorneys and communicators and how it should change. Discussion participants were FIR co-hosts Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz. In addition, we were joined by the following guests: Jim … [Read more...] about FIR Live #14, May 26, 2009: PR and lawyers
Audio sharing and growing pains
The Guardian had a good story yesterday about Audioboo, the audio-sharing service (and social network) that I started using in March. Audioboo is primarily an iPhone app where you record up to five minutes of audio that the app uploads to your space on the Audioboo website and publishes it online. Since starting in March, Audioboo has been adding social/sharing elements to the website including a means to follow other users, and be followed, and indicate your follow/followed status in your … [Read more...] about Audio sharing and growing pains
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #451: May 25, 2009
Content summary: Happy Memorial Day and Bank Holiday Monday; FIR Live tomorrow; FIR Listener dinner on June 7; Shel and Neville guests on two podcasts: GrizzlyGrowls #100 and Luke Armour's The Rundown; Michael Netzley reports on blogger prosecutions in South Korea; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: IAB launches social media guidelines, Bloomberg's social media rules forbid employees mentioning competitors or linking to them, CDC shares its web analytics, Audioboo: the … [Read more...] about The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #451: May 25, 2009
HP’s new OfficeJet Pro 8500 on trial
How cost effective is your printer in terms of consumables like paper and ink or toner? Does it use a lot of electricity to run? Is it environmentally friendly in terms of manufacture, day-to-day operation and ultimate disposal? These are probably not questions at the front of your mind each time you send an email or Word doc to the printer to get a hard copy. They're not usually the prime things I think about when printing - although cost is increasingly a thought especially whenever I … [Read more...] about HP’s new OfficeJet Pro 8500 on trial
Exposing your analytics
The new Google Analytics Data Export API which Google announced on Friday makes it easy to share some of your Google Analytics data on a WordPress blog thanks to a nifty plugin created by Spiral Web Consulting. […] this plugin allows WordPress users to easily configure tracking and reporting of Google Analytics data without having to manually edit their WordPress template files. The plugin uses the new Google Analytics API to retrieve the unique visitor information and display it directly … [Read more...] about Exposing your analytics