For the first time, the IABC World Conference – set to begin this coming Sunday in Toronto, Canada – will be preceded by an unconference. Several online properties have been developed around the “Toronto Talks” unconference, including a central repository of information and interactivity at http://grou.ps/torontotalks. Here’s what the IABC…
Content summary: Memorial Day in the US and Bank Holiday in the UK; new FIR Interview, Speakers & Speeches podcasts up; coming: another FIR Interview, and Speakers & Speeches podcasts from the Dell B2B social media event in London last week; update on the FIR iPhone/Android apps; 5 Minutes On……
Doesn’t this… …look remarkably like this… Reality in a Back To The Future II style. Not in five years – 2015 was the year portrayed in that film – but ten is credible, I reckon. (Via Engadget) Related post: No hoverboards in San Francisco?
Ever since I started blogging back in 2002, I have always found RSS to be one of the most useful tech tools ever invented. RSS enables me, you, anyone, to automatically receive new or updated content from anywhere on the web, right on your desktop, laptop or mobile device without…
Constant Contact, one of the better-known names in the commercial email business, recently announced the acquisition of NutShellMail, which aggregates social content and delivers it to your inbox. In this interview, FIR co-host Shel Holtz speaks with Eric Groves, Constant Contact’s senior vice president of Global Market Development, about the…
As the iPad formally launches today in the UK – as well as in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain and Switzerland – expect your TV news to be full of images of queues at Apple stores in all of those countries. If you use Twitter, you can expect…
Content summary: Francesca Karpel, senior manager of Internal Communications at NetApp, delivered a breakout session at the 2010 New Communications Forum titled "How Social Media & Online Communities Strengthen Employee Engagement," April 23, 2010. From the NewComm Forum session description: NetApp (#1 on Fortune’s Best Companies to Work For in…
Yesterday’s DellB2b Social Media Huddle that took place at Microsoft’s London office – which has excellent facilities for this type of event including robust and reliable wifi – was highly worthwhile, according to much of the comment I heard from many participants in the pub last night after the event.…
