Month: June 2009

  • Easy upgrading WordPress to version 2.8

    A new version 2.8 of WordPress was released this week and I’ve upgraded this blog to that latest version. 2.8 has some significant new features, enhancements and fixes. What better way to show you what some of them are –…

  • Twitter drives $3m sales for Dell

    While many businesses are trying to work out how to make money from Twitter, computer maker Dell shows what they have done to validate Twitter as a credible business tool. Last December, Dell claimed $1 million in sales that the…

  • The News Release in the Social Media Era: Shel Holtz’s IABC presentation

    Content summary: Shel Holtz was part of the "All-Star" track at the annual world conference of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC), presenting on the role of the news release in the social media era on June 9, 2009.…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #456: June 11, 2009

    Content summary: Neville’s back in the UK and Shel’s in Washington, DC; review of the IABC World Conference and FIR Listener Dinner, both in San Francisco; Dan York reports on Facebook user names, Apple’s new products, the future of PR,…

  • With the IABC Chairman’s Award 2009

    I’ve been in two minds all week about whether to post this photo here or not. It seemed too much like own-horn tooting or trumpet-blowing. But today I thought, what the heck, it’s a milestone event, let’s just get it…