Ever since Google introduced Google+ in 2011, a big frustration for many users of the embryonic social network was letting people know where to find them. That means a web address or URL: something you can let people know about so that it's easy for them to find you on Google+. Except that it wasn't easy when your Google+ address was something like https://plus.google.com/116986422495636163350. That happens to be my Google+ address. Hardly memorable, is it? Now, though, it really is … [Read more...] about Getting personal with a custom Google+ address
Archives for October 2013
Scoble and Israel join up the dots #AoCUK #CIPR
About 100 people gathered in Google's London campus last night to hear Robert Scoble and Shel Israel talk about concepts, ideas, experiences, trends and realities surrounding some of the themes and topics in their new book, Age of Context, published in September. The widely-anticipated event was organized by the CIPR and sponsored by Precise. Age of Context is the embracing term to anchor five converging forces the two authors see as profoundly changing almost every aspect of work and life … [Read more...] about Scoble and Israel join up the dots #AoCUK #CIPR
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #727: October 28, 2013
Intro: Thank you for participating in the FIR Listener Survey 2013, results report soon; Episode 5 of FIR On Strategy with Andrea Vascellari is up; Neville and Bryan Person at the UK Social Media Communications Awards 2013 in London last week; Neville in discussion with Robert Scoble and Shel Israel about the age of context at a CIPR event in London on Oct 28, recording coming as an FIR Speakers and Speeches podcast; Quick News: The role of news on Facebook, Ryanair looks serious about its … [Read more...] about The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #727: October 28, 2013
Exuberance, imagination and style on display at #somecomms Awards
If I'd been a keen fan of Arsenal football club, I'd have been in seventh heaven last Thursday evening. I was at the Emirates stadium - Arsenal's home in north London - for the huge shindig that was the UK Social Media Communications Awards 2013. It was an event that attracted not far off 300 people who mixed, matched, dined, congratulated and partied the evening away in one of the most enjoyable and well organized events I've taken part in in a very long time. A different seventh heaven! The … [Read more...] about Exuberance, imagination and style on display at #somecomms Awards
Don’t ignore social voices, Knight Frank #LostMyGiggle
It's always very interesting seeing how the mixture of empowered social communication, Twitter and a hashtag can totally disrupt traditional communication and command and control behaviours. We've seen this during the past week in two specific examples - the negative hashtag hijacking experience for British Gas (#AskBG), and the positive organization/consumer enlightenment experience for the Bank of England (#AskBoE). As Shel and I discussed in this week's FIR podcast, a Twitter hashtag … [Read more...] about Don’t ignore social voices, Knight Frank #LostMyGiggle
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #726: October 21, 2013
Intro: Episode 4 of FIR On Strategy with Andrea Vascellari is up, please help us improve FIR with the FIR Listener Survey: open until Oct 23, eight GAP study on communication best practices now open for input; Quick News: 40% of YouTube traffic now mobile, Twitter's new DM feature and what it can mean to you (personally and as a communicator), FT employs more journalists than ever before following shift to digital, Dreamhost publishes an annual employee yearbook in print; Ragan promo; News … [Read more...] about The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #726: October 21, 2013
Business metrics from SAP to get excited about
Metrics, facts, opinion and forecasts are all part of the fabric of the online experience. Everywhere you look, you'll see reports, surveys, infographics and much more web furniture designed to inform, entertain and often sell. Too often, though, it's a challenge to use some content that is made publicly available as the creator is unknown and therefore untrusted, sources are not cited, the content isn't relevant, the information is simply out of date; or, worse, the facts just don't add … [Read more...] about Business metrics from SAP to get excited about
Increase your computer satisfaction with Soluto’s anti-frustration service
One of the banes of modern computer life is booting up, the process that happens to your computer when you switch it on. On my office desktop computer running 64-bit Windows 7 Ultimate, it takes well over five minutes from the moment I turn the machine on to the moment when realistically I can start using it. That's well over the average time in the UK - and significantly more than the global average - according to Soluto, an Israeli software and web service company whose business is all … [Read more...] about Increase your computer satisfaction with Soluto’s anti-frustration service