Content summary: Update on FIR Listener Dinner in San Francisco on June 7; new FIR mailing list starts; a note about General Motors’ communications; follow-up discussion about Ulitzer and Aral Balkan; Dan York reports on Google Wave; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: Web 2.0 at work…
Some of my friends in the UK didn’t vote today in the European Parliament elections. Quite a few of them say they are so disillusioned with politics, why bother. Others say they have no interest in what’s going on in Brussels. Well, that’s a shame but frankly, it’s their loss.…
The latest ranking information for UK blogs, for June 2009, is about to be published by Wikio, the information portal and news search engine. As with each month this year, my friends there have let me have an advance look at some of that data – the ranking of the…
What a great initiative announced yesterday by the city of San Francisco – enable citizens to use Twitter as one of the means through which they can use the city’s 311 online information and services network. […] you will be establishing a two-way communication channel which can be used to…
The other day, Windows Vista Service Pack 2 (SP2) was installed on my Dell XPS 420 desktop PC via Windows Update. Ever since, I’ve experienced a number of weird things. No matter which way I look at them, I can’t see any other reason other than SP2 somehow has Done…
A poll last month by business network LinkedIn reveals some useful and fascinating opinions by nearly 4,000 business people about Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Digg and the iPhone. In summary, the survey results show that a clear majority (30%) of those who answered the poll believe that mastering Twitter is important.…
Content summary: Shel’s in Las Vegas; only 2 slots left for the FIR Dinner in San Francisco on June 7; next Monday’s show will be recorded live from the IABC conference; no Michael Netzley report this week; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: Pepsi’s ‘open newsroom’ experiment…
Last Thursday, May 28, I participated in “Web 2 EU: Publication 2 Participation,†a half-day conference in Brussels organized by the IABC Belgium chapter. As I mentioned in my post last week, I was there but not physically so: I was able to take part from my home office in…
