FIR correspondent Dan York interviews Martin Murray, primary spokesperson for utility Public Service New Hampshire, about the use of social media as a communication channel during a recent ice storm. Get this podcast: Download the MP3 file (13.9Mb, 30:23) Get the show on iTunes Subscribe to the FIR Interviews RSS…
Content summary: Upcoming FIR Interviews; next FIR Live on BlogTalk Radio on Feb 7; Neville’s webinar today for IABC; Dan York reports from Keene, New Hampshire; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: the importance of simplicity, Al-Jazeera launches world’s first repository of broadcast-quality video offered under Creative…
At the end of this post, you’ll notice a little image saying ‘share.’ If you move your mouse over it, it will expand and display the logos of a few place that you see here where you can share the link. The service to enable this is called AddThis and…
A friend asked me two questions yesterday, about business communication-related issues in the coming year. Both came in direct messages via Twitter. Apart from everything else Twitter is, it’s also a tool that keeps you refreshingly focused on brevity and conciseness in your dialogue. No wordy predictions, no long-winded missives,…
We call it a CV in the UK but it’s a good start to Robert Scoble’s 18+ tips in If you are laid off, here’s how to socially network. 1. Your blog is your resume. You need one and it needs to have 100 posts on it about what you…
Marshall Kirkpatrick writes a very interesting post at ReadWriteWeb entitled “RIP Enterprise RSS.†The essence of his argument is that demand for RSS simply never arose and that the market is over. I’m in the UK and largely agree with Marshall’s view that enterprise RSS has died although I suggest…
Last Thursday January 8, an earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale struck Costa Rica in Central America. My wife Laura and I have a strong interest in Costa Rica as we have family there and, indeed, lived there during much of the 1980s. Thankfully, family there are safe and…
Content summary: How to subscribe to FIR; upcoming FIR Interview with Jack O’Dwyer; Michael Netzley reports from Singapore; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: the reputation and ethics of Lloyds TSB bank under a spotlight, Ogilvy PR releases a social media dashboard, ReadWriteWeb shows how to build…
