A bit of a dramatic headline, perhaps, but Sin City aka Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, is where I’m headed on Sunday morning on a Virgin Atlantic flight where I’ll be for most of next week, back here in the UK on Thursday morning. It’s been a few years since I…
If you listen to FIR episode #504, you’ll hear a report filed by a new correspondent – long-time listener Mark Story who’s based in Washington, DC. Mark is Director of New Media at the US Securities and Exchange Commission. He’s been the architect behind some interesting public experimentation with social…
I agree with Stephen Waddington: if you’re in PR in the UK, Econsultancy’s Social Media and Online PR Report is essential reading. I’ve not yet read the detailed report, published earlier this week, just scanned through the extract freely available on Econsultancy’s website. Plus I’ve absorbed some of the commentary…
Content summary: Happy Thanksgiving to our US listeners; welcoming Mark Story as an FIR correspondent; we’re going to try Jeremy Hague’s Vodburner app for Skype video calls; Dan York reports on Google Wave and LinkedIn APIs, and has a neat TweetDeck tip; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That…
Earlier today, I updated a new program I’m trying out – Seesmic for Windows, which I wrote about last week. After the installer had updated the app, I launched it but got an alert from Norton Internet Security 2010. Up popped a security dialog saying “A program is behaving suspiciously…
Content summary: FIR Interview with Tac Anderson posted; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: Texas hospital puts social media front and centre in Fort Hood shooting crisis, "Facebook for business" coming soon from Salesforce, Goldman Sachs’ expensive and poorly-thought-out PR initiative, when too much information is bad…
A conference report with a difference, created by John Moore – a deck full of comments by participants at the WOMMA 2009 Summit last week on points of interest from their individual perspectives on presentations and keynotes, all told in 140-character bites posted to Twitter. As John describes them: talkable…
I bought a new pair of shoes last week, a pair of Anatomic Gel slip-ons. The overall process, from first contact with the eventual retailer to delivery, was so outstanding that it’s the type of experience you really want to tell people about. I’d seen these particular shoes in the…
