Month: August 2013

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #716: August 12, 2013

    Intro: FIR Interview with Sharam Fouladgar-Mercer, AirPR CEO, is up; FIR Interviews coming with Craig Jolley on marketing automation, and with Jean Valin and Dan Tisch on the Melbourne Mandate; Bloggade 2013: the nuts and bolts of blogging and WordPress;…

  • Too much FUD and too little facts about fracking

    If there’s one major issue of significant public interest today that’s shrouded in fear, uncertainty and doubt, it’s fracking. If you believe the supporters of this mining process to extract natural gas and petroleum deposits from shale rock – formally…

  • FIR Interview: Sharam Fouladgar-Mercer, CEO of AirPR

    Sourcing a good PR pro can be likened to finding a needle in a haystack, according to Sharam Fouladgar-Mercer, co-founder and CEO of AirPR, a San Francisco-based tech start-up offering a digital by-invitation match-making service for PRs and entrepreneurs. In…

  • Connecting content and the social conversations

    A topic Shel and I discuss in this week’s FIR podcast episode 715 is commenting on blogs. More specifically, about the conversation that can happen in response to a post someone writes and publishes on a blog, and where the…

  • Bloggade 2013: the nuts and bolts of blogging and WordPress

    Have you ever wondered what goes on at a data centre, perhaps one that hosts your website or blog? If that’s a question you’ve asked before, then here’s your chance to get the answer. A tour of a state-of-the-art UK…