SoundCloud‘s co-founder Eric Wahlforss sees his company as a social network, with its primary competitors Facebook and Twitter, two of the giants of today’s social web. Its Wikipedia entry describes SoundCloud as an online audio distribution platform that allows collaboration, promotion and distribution of audio recordings by users. It was…
A discussion topic in episode 701 of the FIR podcast, published today, looks at a question asked in the Metro newspaper last week: should British politicians take notes from Barack Obama’s campaign team? The Metro’s excellent report looked at the key role social media played – especially Twitter – in…
Overflow from FIR #701 on April 29, 2013. Discussion references: NevilleHobson.com: What do Barcelona, Melbourne and Stockholm mean to PRs? Global Alliance: The World Public Relations Forum: Melbourne’s Mandate for PR Barcelona Declaration of Measurement Principles The Melbourne Mandate Stockholm Accords Listen Now: Download this podcast (5.39Mb, 11:16) If you…
Intro: No Shel live this week (we have contributions), Stephen Waddington joins Neville in a guest segment; Bob LeDrew’s FIR Book Review of Peter Shankman’s Nice Companies Finish First is up, review coming soon from Eric Schwartzman of Brian Solis’ What’s the Future of Business?; FIR Interview with Eric Wahlforss,…
Peter Shankman applied his skills as a communicator and businessman to create Help A Reporter Out (HARO), an email service that connected journalists looking for people to interview with individuals with the experience or insights to meet the journalist’s needs. The free service was based on sharing and collaboration, principles…
Yesterday on a London trip, I met up with Bruno Amaral and Kelly Pereira. I’ve known Lisbon-based Bruno for some years so it was great to catch up with him on his London visit. Over a coffee and some great conversation, the names of three cities came into our discussion:…
On April 22, 2013, Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz published the 700th episode of The Hobson and Holtz Report, the weekly business podcast covering the intersection of business, communication and technology that the pair started in January 2005. To mark the milestone episode Canadian podcaster, FIR friend and long-time listener…
Intro: Donna’s FIR Interview with Shel and Neville coming, Google Voice call-in line notifications, one week until Viral Video Summit, The B2B Huddle on May 2 and keynote speeches will be FIR podcasts; Quick News: UK PR agencies investigated for use of unpaid interns, free career advice for Millennials that’s…
