The expansion of the global internet population will continue to have a profound impact on infrastructure, education, finance, commerce, and healthcare, among other industries worldwide. That was a major theme of The Next Billion London, a one-day conference on May 19, 2015, presented by Quartz magazine. At the Quartz event, FIR co-host Neville Hobson had the opportunity to record a conversation with Leila Janah, founder and CEO of Sama Group and an award-winning social entrepreneur who … [Read more...] about FIR Interview: Leila Janah and The Future of Work
Archives for May 2015
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #809: May 25, 2015
Intro: FIR Interview with Leila Janah coming this week, FIR Podcast Network shows make Cision top 50 PR/Marketing podcasts recommendations; Quick News: Tweets now appear in Google search results, communication leaders aren't leading very well, 110 photojournalists run National Geographic's Instagram account, the immorality of mobile ad blockers; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop: News That Fits: Two tales of failure in communication and leadership: Amtrak in the wake of the … [Read more...] about The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #809: May 25, 2015
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #808: May 18, 2015
Intro: New FIR website (and a hint of more to come), FIR's new Pinterest account - and a board for sharing books for young communicators; Quick News: How T-Mobile blew $200K on a campaign against Verizon, Domino's to roll out tweet-a-pizza in the US, the town in Spain that runs on Twitter, gay-themed traffic lights get Vienna in the mood for the Eurovision Song Contest; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: How digital leaders outperform their peers; Michael … [Read more...] about The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #808: May 18, 2015
A new platform for a new network: the FIR Podcast Network is live
When we introduced For Immediate Release on January 3, 2005, we had no idea we’d still be podcasting more than a decade later. We didn’t know what the state of podcasting would be, that the scope of FIR would expand, or that podcast networks would be a thing. When we started, we just needed a website for show notes and a home for our audio files. Ten years later, we’re still here, with exactly the same website we started with. While our website hasn’t changed, though, everything else has. … [Read more...] about A new platform for a new network: the FIR Podcast Network is live
FIR Interview: Julian Mills and Steven Green on social intranets
Communicators struggle to build genuine online engagement among employees using the various social tools available for intranets. Study after study shows that few employees use these tools, regardless of how much they might be engaged with external social media. At Bank of Montreal, though, Julian Mills overcame the obstacles to introduce social tools employees at all levels used to advance business goals. In this interview, FIR co-host Shel Holtz talks with Mills about the impetus for the … [Read more...] about FIR Interview: Julian Mills and Steven Green on social intranets
FIR Interview: Harry Hawk interviews Clammr co-founder Parviz Parvizi
In a recent post to her blog, long-time FIR contributor Donna Papacosta shared her first Clammr recording after learning about the iOS app at New Media Expo in Las Vegas. While at the Expo, Donna heard Mark Ramsay say, "People don't share audio. They share conversations about audio." Later, she met Parviz Parvizi, who claims Clammr to be "the Instagram of audio," allowing users to share snippets of sound. "This would be a boon for podcasters seeking to build their audiences," Donna … [Read more...] about FIR Interview: Harry Hawk interviews Clammr co-founder Parviz Parvizi
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #807: May 11, 2015
Intro: Boston experiences, 'Geeks Bearing Gifts' book review is up, Harry Hawk interview with Clammr CEO Parviz Parvizi is coming; Quick News: There's nothing fair about fair use at Soundcloud, forgotten wonders of the digital world: Second Life, new data on native advertising's disclosure issues, more than one million click "I'm a voter" button on Facebook as opinion polls suffer major credibility crisis in UK general election; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: … [Read more...] about The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #807: May 11, 2015
Fixing a polling system that’s out of sync
Reading the various reports, narratives and commentaries this weekend about the results of the UK general election that took place on May 7, the overall perspective I've formed on all of that is how could the expert commentators, opinion-formers and outcome-predictors have got it all so wrong? The election result produced a clear win for the Conservatives with a slender majority in the House of Commons (12 seats), and the virtual annihilation of the primary opposition political parties - the … [Read more...] about Fixing a polling system that’s out of sync