Year: 2009

  • At the extremes with social media in the UK

    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…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #504: November 26, 2009

    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…

  • Software should be smarter

    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…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #503: November 23, 2009

    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…

  • WOMMA’s talkable tweets

    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…