Content summary: FIR Interview with Ragy Thomas postponed; update on PRSA’s #PRDefined campaign; News That Fits: US military takes to social media to rebut extremists; Michael Netzley reports from Singapore on foreign direct investment in Indonesia, the Olympus scandal in Japan, Qantas Twitter kerfuffle; Ragan promo; what companies can learn…
I was taking a look through the beta version of the BBC’s new website when it occurred to me that what I was interacting with was a web presence that’s geared to touch and feel more than to point and click. The overall layout that extends left and right off…
Content summary: On this day in 1980; good result for Tony Loftis (FIR Interview last week): his missing daughter Allie found safe; two FIR Interviews coming: Peter Espersen of Lego and Sprinklr Founder/CEO Ragy Thomas; Speakers & Speeches from the Dell B2B Huddle at Google coming soon (if you have…
What’s your definition of the term “public relations”? Does it match that of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA): Public relations helps an organization and its publicsadapt mutually to each other. Or in the UK, that of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR): […] Public relations is the…
I got a new smartphone a few days ago, a Samsung model, as my evolution from the HTC Desire, the phone I’ve had for the past eighteen months. It’s not the new Samsung Galaxy Nexus that launched in the UK (and across Europe) on November 17, the Android phone I’d…
Finally someone has produced an infographic-style video that flips the promotion of social media on its head to look at metrics such as the opener that says “Over 6.2 billion people on earth don’t use Facebook.” “Social Media Truth” takes the opposite approach to videos like Erik Qualman’s original “Social…
Is Klout getting a bum rap, spitefully pilloried in critical commentary such as my post on November 12 on opting out of Klout? Guest author Tammy Kahn Fennell believes that services like Klout and PeerIndex deserve fairer assessment. Let me open with this. I am not invested in any influence…
Tony Loftis’ daughter, 13-year-old Allie Loftis, ran away from her Boston-area home and is believed to be in the New York City area. FIR listener John Cass – part of Tony’s communications network in Boston – reached out to FIR about conducting an interview to help get the word out.…
