Content summary: Diary note: next FIR Live on Feb 19 with Paul Gillin and Eric Schwartzman; listener comments discussion; News That Fits: social media and its role in events in Tunisia and Egypt: discussion, Michael Netzley reports from Singapore, the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop, Edelman Trust Barometer 2011 published,…
If you’ve ever been hit with a virus on your computer, you know how difficult it can be to thoroughly clean the machine, even when you have security software that does all the heavy work. Take that picture and apply it to your blog and you have a migraine-inducing situation,…
Watching BBC Click on TV yesterday, I was interested to find out more about soluto.com that was mentioned on the show. This is a program for Windows that claims to dramatically speed up the boot time of your computer so that it doesn’t load programs or services that aren’t necessary…
With the TV news full of images and sounds of serious civil unrest in Egypt, it’s fascinating to see how social media tools and channels – especially Twitter and social networking sites such as Facebook – have been enabling Egyptian citizens to rapidly broadcast images and sounds that parallel what…
FIR Live #21 Saturday, February 19, 2011 10am PST / 1pm EST / 6pm GMT Participate or listen in Tech journalist and author Paul Gillin and Eric Schwartzman – PR counsellor, podcaster and occasional FIR correspondent – have teamed up to write Social Marketing to the Business Customer, the only…
Content summary: New FIR Book Review posted of Resonate by Nancy Duarte; diary date: next FIR Live is on Feb 19 with Eric Schwartzman and Paul Gillin on B2B social media; listeners’ comments discussion; News That Fits: bad guys shifting their focus away from phishing to social channels say Sophos…
An event I’m very happy to help raise awareness of is the 2011 Social Media Awards programme from the European Public Relations Education and Research Association (Euprera), that aims to recognize the best student and research PR blogging across Europe at an awards ceremony in Lisbon, Portugal, in March. The…
I can think of few better ways of spending part of Sunday than playing with a new tech toy. Which is precisely what I’ve done today with a new device that Dell have let me have as part of a programme to promote a new laptop under their Vostro model…
