There is some excellent thinking on display in a presentation deck on Slideshare that examines in some detail what large businesses could look like as the concepts and principles of social business evolve. The deck is by Dion Hinchcliffe, Chief Strategy Officer at the Dachis Group – acquired last week…
A simple, musing, rhetorical, tweet on Monday evening about PRs who send out press releases under embargo prompted a wide-ranging conversation on Twitter among a handful of people about professional behaviour, education and training, and being prepared for the PR workplace. Sending out press releases under embargo isn’t an unusual…
The results of a new survey for BBC World News shows a surge in smartphone use for consuming news among affluent consumers compared to the general population. The BBC defines “affluent consumers” as the highest 20 percent income earners in each country surveyed. What the BBC describes as the world’s…
Quick News: Chevron apologizes for fracking well explosion with free pizza coupons, Virgin Galactic looking for a PR agency, Groupon claims its President’s Day gaffe was intentional, Sprinklr acquires Dachis Group; Ragan promo; News That Fits: Latest CIPR ‘State of the Profession’ survey prompts a challenge to communicators from CIPR…
A frequent topic over the past year on the FIR podcast that my co-host Shel Holtz and I have pondered and discussed is the rise of visual communication. A key reference point for us was the interview we did in August 2012 with Brian McNely on Instagram as a medium…
Disruptive change is a hallmark of the social web, and nowhere is disruption more often strongly seen and felt than in large organizations. Everyone is trying to figure out a new business landscape that, for large enterprises in particular, has morphed into something called ‘social business.’ Such change has been…
Intro: We recorded this episode via Zoom.us rather than Skype: let us know what you think of the audio quality; Quick News: “The business of blogging” ebook published by Stephen Waddington with insights from 15 business bloggers; 10,000 racial slurs used daily on Twitter; The Holmes Report describes the top…
Back in the day when blogging was social media, in the decade of the 00s, you were pretty limited in the methods you could use to publish your thinking and ideas. Then, you only had blogs, the websites that enabled anyone with a thought to create a web page (a…
