Year: 2009

  • Vegas Vistas

    I spent most of the first week of December in Las Vegas, meeting with all my colleagues in the WeissComm Group. I joined WCG in October so other than a handful of colleagues, I hadn’t met any of them in…

  • Ghost blogging: Just don’t do it

    A topic that’s guaranteed to provoke some passionate opinion is that of ghost blogging: whether it’s right or wrong and whether you should do it or not in a business context in particular. I have written about it before, most…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #508: December 10, 2009

    Content summary: Neville reports on the Dell B2B Social Media Huddle and FIR iPadio update; the return of FIR Live in January; Dan York reports on Google Wave, Google Chrome on the Mac, and Facebook’s new privacy policy; the Media…

  • Twitter drives $6.5m global revenue for Dell, company plans to embrace the social web

    News from computer maker Dell that attracted a lot of attention in the summer was their announcement that one Twitter account in the USA, the @DellOutlet handle, was responsible for driving over $3 million in sales. Today comes more such…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #507: December 7, 2009

    Content summary: Neville’s at the Social Media Huddle filing reports via iPadio; Michael Netzley’s report; Media Monitoring Minute; News That Fits: social websites like Facebook are signing on to new UK standards code for children, B2B companies are more active…