Year: 2009

  • An outstanding customer service experience

    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…

  • FIR Interview: Tac Anderson, Social Media Director, Waggener Edstrom

    Tac Anderson, in his role of Director of Social Media for the PR agency Waggener Edstrom, led an effort to adopt the lifestreaming tool, Posterous, as a communication channel for the launch of Microsoft’s retail stores. In this FIR Interview,…

  • Marketers ‘destroy customer relationships online’

    A few weeks ago, I wrote about the problem with PR email, the results of a survey on people’s attitudes to the email that PR agencies and others send them. The survey paints a dismal picture of how email is…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #502: November 19, 2009

    Content summary: Mitch Joel’s book offer; FIR Interview with Tac Anderson coming; update on the FIR Twitter List; FIR #500: more listener predictions; Dan York reports; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: Ronna Porter’s example on calling…

  • A new Twitter app for Windows users from Seesmic

    In my experience, the best way of interacting with your community on Twitter is by using a third-party application rather than via Twitter’s website. My app of choice on the desktop is TweetDeck, a product I’ve been using since it…