Last week, I asked “Who ‘owns’ social?” as part of my preparation for moderating a panel discussion with that title at The Social Customer 2012 conference that took place in London yesterday. The post attracted a handful of great comments from Adam Tinworth, Shel Holtz, David B. Thomas and David…
Austin, Texas-based Dachis Group defines itself as an organization that “powers the design, development, management and measurement of social business solutions for the world’s leading companies.” To this end, among the products and services the company offers is the Social Business Index, a tool that, they say, sucks in data…
If you moderate or participate in tweet chats, you know how frantic they can be. In a lively discussion, you can get a constant firehose of tweets pouring at you over the course of the chat, often an hour or so. Capturing the full flood of Twitter chat is no…
+The Next Web reports that Google is planning to launch a commenting system to rival that of Facebook’s. […] The Google comment system … will have deep links to Google’s network of services and websites, indexing comments in Google Search, and most significantly, the system will be available for use…
Content summary: Shel’s travelling, Neville solo recording this week; FIR Interview with PRSA’s Gerard Corbett posted; FIR Book Review of For Immediate Release (no kidding) by Ronn Torossian posted; RSS feed problems with the last episode fixed; News That Fits: blogs on the rise; Ragan promo; Neville and Dan York…
FIR Book Review Editor Bob LeDrew reviews the new book by 5WPR founder, president and CEO Ronn Torossian, For Immediate Release (no kidding). The book’s subtitle is Shape Minds, Build Brands and Deliver Results with Game-Changing Public Relations. From the book description: “It is essential that businesses know how to…
FIR co-host Shel Holtz interviews Gerard Corbett, Chairman and CEO of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) about the association’s advocacy effort that was launched after the announcement that a US Senate committee would investigate government spending on public relations. Additional resources: Roll Call article about the investigation: “Senators…
It seems to me that everyone is trying to figure out the role of social media for their organization, whatever size it is. As more people become become more clued-up about the potential of what social media tools and channels can enable them them do – as well as not…
