Content summary: FIR Interview with Text 100’s Jeremy Woolf posted, FIR Book Review interview with Silvia Cambie and Yang-May Ooi coming; discussion: Best Buy seeks the wisdom of the crowd to co-create social media job description; Dan York reports on […]
Month: July 2009
One of the things I consistently say about the iPhone is that it’s all about the apps. For the sheer scope and scale of useful little programs for your iPhone or iPod Touch – known simply as ‘apps’ – this […]
A recruitment ad for a Sr. Manager – Emerging Media Marketing Job at US retailer Best Buy includes an item under the “Preferred Qualifications” heading that applicants have “250 plus followers on Twitter.” I guess it’s one way of noting […]
Yesterday I led a workshop on blogging in London for the CIPR during which the group spent a bit of time talking about ghost blogging. Scott Adams’ perceptive Dilbert cartoon, first published two years ago, takes an extreme but comical […]
PR agency Text 100 recently released the results of a global blogger survey that revealed much about blogger preferences for being contacted by PR practitioners, social media releases vs traditional releases and a variety of other topics. In this FIR […]
Content summary: The Traveling Geeks arrive in London; new FIR Interview from Michael Netzley, FIR Book Review interview with Silvia Cambie and Yang-May Ooi coming; discussion 1: does the New York Times’ portrayal of Silicon Valley PR reflect a reality?; […]
The plans of behavioural targeting firm Phorm for spying on what people do online look to have taken a terminal hit as The Guardian reports. The announcement today of BT’s pull-out suggests it could be hard for Phorm to continue […]
Business and communication intelligence firm Cision updated their list yesterday of the top 10 PR blogs in the UK, which now looks like this: Neville Hobson PR Media Blog Drew B’s take on tech PR The Way of the Web […]
One thought about the 2009 IABC World Conference in San Francisco has been floating in my mind since I was at the event in early June. That thought is to do with connectivity. By that, I mean the difficulty I […]
Content summary: Lee Aase, manager of syndication and social media for The Mayo Clinic, joins Shel as guest co-host; please vote for FIR on Podcast Alley; Lee and Shel discuss the growth of social media in health care; the Media […]
A new feature has come to Flickr, the photo-sharing service, that means you can post notifications and other announcements about your photos to your Twitter account from Flickr itself. The new feature is simple to set up and works well, […]