Content summary: FIR Interview with Chris Brogan posted; FIR Interview coming with Brian Solis and Deirdre Breakenridge, and another one in the works with Mitch Joel; SNCR Awards deadline is Sept 7; MyChingo/MobaTalk is no more; IABC Cafe2Go interview with Roger D’Aprix posted; Shel re-starts StopBlocking.org; Michael Netzley interviews documentary…
Is augmented reality going to be the Next Big Thing? A lot of people think so, as all the increasing talk is helping the topic rapidly ascend the Technology Trigger in Gartner’s 2009 hype cycle for emerging technologies published last month. I wrote about this topic in July. Now it’s…
Three great items this week: Dave Fleet’s advice for entry-level PR professionals (which I reckon applies to every-level PR professionals); Shel Holtz and firing up StopBlocking.org; and Dave Jones’ report on his colleague Niall Cook updating Hill & Knowlton’s social media guidelines. Listen! Links to the blog posts I talked…
Can social media change the rules of old-world business? That’s a question I’ve been mulling over during the past week or so in thinking about how and where social media fits into an organization’s business planning as part of the array of communication tools and channels available to everyone today.…
A couple of days ago, I had the great pleasure of engaging in conversation with someone who has been a huge influence over the past twenty years in shaping a great deal of my thinking about organizational communication and employee engagement. That ‘someone’ is Roger D’Aprix, a man who IABC…
In the UK, using a mobile phone while driving is illegal. That applies to any use of a mobile device, whether to make/receive a phone call or a text message. A text message? Surely you wouldn’t type texts when you’re driving your car? Would you? Of course not! But if…
Two years ago, my podcasting partner Shel Holtz started a campaign called Stop Blocking as a means of drawing attention to a practice by some organizations to prevent access by employees to wide swathes of content on websites, blogs and other places online. During the past few years, Shel gathered…
Chris Brogan is a well-known name in the social media world through his prolific blogging and speaking, his involvement with organizations like Izea and now with the book he has co-authored, Trust Agents. On the eve of the launch of Trust Agents, blogger Leah Jones questioned Brogan’s trustworthiness after he…
