Month: June 2009

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #457: June 15, 2009

    Content summary: How to subscribe to the new FIR email newsletter; next FIR Live on Blogtalk Radio on June 26 will feature guest Gary Vaynerchuk; Eric Schwartzman interviews Leysia Palen, social media crisis communications researcher at the University of Colorado…

  • How to make your business card a smart card

    How to make your business card a smart card

    A post by Frank Eliason on business cards got me thinking a lot about the value of such bits of paper. And they are bits of paper, aren’t they? Name, title, company, logo, address, phone, email, etc, printed on rectangular…

  • But it’s not Cadbury’s

    As we’re in a recession, you have to look for cost savings wherever you can find them. From a consumer’s point of view, that often means compromising your brand preferences. At least, that’s how it looks to me when I…

  • Ignore everybody and rock on

    About a month ago, a package arrived from the US via FedEx containing a slim paperback that was the advance uncorrected proofs of Ignore Everybody, the first mainstream-published book from cartoonist and entrepreneur Hugh Macleod, author of the blog Gapingvoid.…

  • Voices from Iran will be heard

    If you want to follow developments in Iran after the presidential election that took place on June 12, mainstream media reporting online and offline are the logical places to pay attention to. Yet these are not the only places –…