Month: April 2012

  • Tweet chat: Community engagement and other topics

    If you’re a small or medium business and would like to hear what others’ experiences are with using social media effectively, and perhaps share your own experiences, the next Dell tweet chat is for you. Over the course of an…

  • Closing the chasm between PR and Wikipedia

    If you’re a PR practitioner, especially if you work for an agency, you may have experienced a dark side of Wikipedia when it comes to editing existing entries or creating new ones for clients. It’s not anecdotal when you hear…

  • EU: The internet cuts out the middle man

    The EU Observer reports that the European Parliament is looking at how its 736 deputies and 6,000 staff should prepare for novelties such as internet-politics, multi-lateralism and enhanced legal powers. […] A recent example of the power of the internet…

  • FIR Speakers and Speeches: Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz on Building Community with Podcasting

    Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz co-presented a session on the second day of Ragan Communications’ Public Relations and Social Media Summit at ING House in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on April 12, 2012. The session covered how a podcast can transform…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #647: April 16, 2012

    Content summary: New call-in number for North America; a recap of Ragan’s International Public Relations and Social Media Summit in Amsterdam last week; Shel and Neville’s session from Amsterdam is a Speakers and Speeches post on FIR; an update on…