An industry undergoing wholesale change is one way of characterizing the mainstream media as news organizations confront a digital future by planning and experimenting with different business models to help ensure their survival in a marketplace that bears little resemblance to the conditions of yore when it was all about…
Trouble in the UK for mobile operator Vodafone this Monday morning as thousands if not millions of customers across the UK have no cellular or mobile broadband service at all. I’m one of those. As I write this post, there is still no service in my area in the UK…
Overflow from FIR #588 on February 28, 2011. PR Daily: A PR rep unfollows a journalist because of critical stories Financial Times: European company will ban internal use of email by 2014 (free FT registration required) Download this podcast (MP3, 2.34Mb; length 5:45) If you want to automatically receive FIR…
Content summary: FIR Interview with OneForty.com’s Laura Fitton is up and one with the Financial Times on its mobile efforts is coming; congratulations to Voce Communications on its acquisition by Porter-Novelli; a review of Peter Shankman’s new book is coming from FIR Book Review Editor Bob LeDrew; share your opinion…
One of the best visual aids to understanding influence, influencers and people’s behaviours online is the technograhics ladder created by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff for their book, Groundswell, in 2007 and updated in early 2010. (Click the thumbnail to see the full image.) The ladder makes it clear that…
Earlier this week, Microsoft publicly released the first service pack for Windows 7. Maybe it’s a sign of the times that such a software release didn’t capture much attention outside the tech community, unlike the huge attention Microsoft used to get with its software releases and announcements. I updated all…
OneForty.com started out as a Twitter app store, the brainchild of Twitter convert Laura Fitton. The site has recently undergone a major shift in focus. While continuing to offer 3,000-plus apps – mostly for Twitter but expanding into other social apps, including Facebook apps – Fitton has refocused the site…
Politicians in Canada are embracers of social media, it seems, and now they’re being actively encouraged to use social channels from within parliament. According to a report by Journalism.co.uk, the Canadian House of Commons has issued MPs with Blackberrys and encouraged them to tweet and post messages on Facebook during…
