Intro: Shel’s in Ottawa, podcast of Brian Solis’ keynote at the B2B Huddle in London coming, FIR Interviews in planning with Sharam Fouladgar-Mercer (founder, AirPR) and Corey Connors (applied activity stream as internal communications focus); Quick News: PCWorld magazine exits print and the era of computer magazines ends, newswires still…
A service I’ve used since the mid 00s is YouSendIt, the freemium file-sharing service you use to send large files to people. It’s been a perfect tool over the years, especially in the days when ‘large files’ typically meant anything bigger than about two megs that would give corporate email…
Belgian communications agency Duval Guillaume Modem is all about big ideas. Only ideas are the carriers of new thoughts and can influence behaviour, the agency says. Ideas are what differentiate human beings from other animals and computers. Ideas originate from creative processes, not from procedures. The award-winning agency is living…
A guest post by Brian Solis. Businesses are aspiring to find the fountain of truth. Social media professionals believe that transparency and authenticity reveal the way. It does, to some extent. But it doesn’t answer how businesses can earn relevance among a new genre of connected consumers simply by embracing…
Intro: FIR Speakers and Speeches iConsumerism panel discussion at Imperial College is up, Brian Solis in London July 12: FIR S&S podcast to come; Quick News: Survey shows journalists trust elected officials more than PR people, the “Yellow Pages of social networks” directory from A Social Media Agency, TSA Instagram…
Eight years ago on this date – on July 7, 2005 – suicide bombers killed over 50 people in London in a series of terror attacks on buses and tube trains during the morning rush hour. More than 700 people were injured, many severely. While 7/7 wasn’t of the magnitude…
On June 19, 2013, FIR co-host Neville Hobson moderated “iConsumerism,” a panel discussion organized by Imperial College London, and the second of three networking and discussion events exploring the way digital innovations shape the world we live, work and create in. Three foundational questions were at the heart of the…
Since I started using EE’s 4G cellular service last December courtesy of EE and the ambassador programme I’m participating in, the one thing that constantly impresses me is simply how fast it is so that you can get things done, well, faster. Uploading Instagram photos and videos, status updates on…
