When is a crisis not really a crisis? The answer is simple, according to the president of FIFA, the world governing body of professional football. FIFA has been embroiled in a scandal of alleged bribery and corruption for months with no end in sight. In an ill-tempered press conference yesterday,…
Content Summary: FIR Book Review coming of Geoff Livingston’s "Fifth Estate"; Shel was at BlogWorld New York for a day; Shel and Neville interviewed by Kelly Kass, SimplyCommunicate; Neville on Simply.TV this week; Update: Twitter, freedom of speech, privacy and the law; listener comments from the Friendfeed FIR Room; Ragan…
Experian, the global information services company, launched its Experian Hitwise measurement service in China a few days ago. The press release says that the new service will help meet increasing demand from domestic and international marketers for tools to improve their online marketing, content development, affiliate strategies and search tactics…
A reality today at many conferences and other large-scale organized events is that attendees at those events are going to tweet, post photos, comment on walls and otherwise talk online about what they’re experiencing (or anything else that comes to mind). Even where event organizers recognize this reality – and…
German car maker Audi has published a terrific video that tells a compelling story about teamwork, technology, individual courage and stamina – all requisite elements of what Audi looks for to win the Le Mans 24-Hour Race again this year (it takes place at Le Mans in France on June…
My desktop email client is Microsoft Outlook for Windows. In spite of the frustrations in many aspects of using it, I like it overall (it does much more than email). I’ve been using it for the best part of a decade in its many versions. One feature I especially like…
Content summary: This is episode #600!; interviews for Shel and Neville; Shel’s on the road; listener comments discussion including Burson Marsteller follow-up, Friendfeed FIR Room round-up; Ragan promo; News That Fits – super-injunctions that gag the mainstream media but not anyone else: balancing privacy, freedom of speech, the law and…
I have a Kindle, the digital e-book reader from Amazon who launched the third-generation model last year. Actually, my whole family has Kindles. We also have stacks of printed books. We’re not especially wedded to format, more the content and that content being available to us in formats we like,…
