Month: October 2010

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #568: October 11, 2010

    Content summary: FIR Live #19 with Josh Bernoff and Ted Schadler posted; upcoming FIR Interview with Joseph Jaffe later this month; listener comments; follow up on the CIPR’s media spamming charter: PRSA President Gary McCormick explains the PRSA’s point of…

  • Better understanding Gartner’s hype cycles

    Over the years, IT industry analysts Gartner have published annual ‘hype cycle‘ reports that assess where specific technologies are going in the coming years. What’s hot and what’s not, in other words. Take the latest one on emerging technologies, for…

  • FIR Live #19: Empowered Co-Authors Josh Bernoff and Ted Schadler

    Content Summary: Josh Bernoff and Ted Schadler, co-authors of the new book, Empowered, discuss how employee HEROes can drive customer service and satisfaction if their employers are willing to empower them. The book, a follow-up to Groundswell which Bernoff co-wrote…

  • Links essential to trust of your online news source

    Say all you want about citizen journalism, fast-breaking news on Twitter that is way faster than the mainstream media, etc – when it comes to one online news source above all that you trust, that source for me is the…

  • Discreet tweets with the Dell Streak

    I sat in a darkened basement conference room at the Royal Aeronautical Society in Mayfair yesterday morning, listening to some terrific presentations and insights at the Echo Research ‘Fit for the Future 2010’ summit. Of the more than 100 people…