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FIR 192: The latest employee revolt

February 26, 2020 by Neville Hobson 

dearoracle

The February episode of “The Hobson & Holtz Report” features Neville and Shel discussing these topics: The Houston Astros’ owner hosts a clinic on how not to deliver an organizational apologyOracle workers are the latest to engage in employee activismFacebook has way more users than Instagram but Instagram is number one in some important metricsAn IPO filing lists the company’s influencers as a potential threatHow brands should handle communications during the coronavirus epidemicTwitter … [Read more...] about FIR 192: The latest employee revolt

Filed Under: Communication, Business, Ethics, Investor Relations, Journalism, Marketing, Public Relations, Reputation, Social Media, Technology, The Hobson & Holtz Report, Workplace Tagged With: Casper, coronavirus, Houston Astros, Oracle

FIR 183: Let’s get personal

May 31, 2019 by Neville Hobson 

amazon echo

The May 2019 edition of “The Hobson and Holtz Report,” aka For Immediate Release episode 183, features Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz talking about these stories: A trio of technologies — from Google, Amazon, and The New York Times — show how marketers will be able to get into your head, assess your emotional state, and manipulate your intent.GDPR is one year old. Has it succeeded in protecting Europeans’ privacy?PR professionals are relegating earned media to the dustbin.Arabic podcasts are … [Read more...] about FIR 183: Let’s get personal

Filed Under: The Hobson & Holtz Report, Business, Communication, Ethics, Europe, Mainstream Media, Marketing, Podcasting, Public Relations, Trends Tagged With: Amazon, Andreesen Horowitz, GDPR, Google, New York Times, Spotify, Wall Street Journal

SDF Podcast 23: Pretty crazy ideas about the Facebook

November 25, 2018 by Neville Hobson 

Facebook

“The ever-present function of propaganda in modern life is in large measure attributable to the social disorganization which has been precipitated by the rapid advent of technological changes.” This is not the latest comment on the perpetual missteps, mishaps and misuse of Facebook, but a quote from Harold D. Lasswell, eminent media scholar and creator of the eponymous and never-aging model and formula to determine media effects: who says what to whom in which channel with what effect? Who … [Read more...] about SDF Podcast 23: Pretty crazy ideas about the Facebook

Filed Under: Small Data Forum, Business, Communication, Ethics, Marketing, Politics, Public Relations, Reputation, Social Networks, Society, Software, Web Tagged With: Chris Wylie, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, propaganda

Emerging tech:
Your bookmark for 2019

October 12, 2018 by Neville Hobson 

Data has a better idea

"We know from human history that developments in technologies over the centuries, ranging from the Industrial Revolution through to the invention of the automobile, then airplanes and so forth, the landscape of progress is littered with human casualties. People die because of these things being tested." A provocative statement, the first thing you hear in episode 1 in the third season of the Digital Download podcast that I did with host Paul Sutton last month in which we discussed emerging … [Read more...] about Emerging tech:
Your bookmark for 2019

Filed Under: Communication, Artificial Intelligence, Business, Ethics, Hardware, Innovation, Public Relations, Science, Society, Software, Technology, Trends, Workplace Tagged With: CIPR, digital assistants, emerging technologies, fake news, Gartner, hype cycle, Paul Sutton, Ray Kurzweil

SDF Podcast 18: Inertia, ethics, and breaches of trust

May 10, 2018 by Neville Hobson 

Data, data everywhere, but ethics in short supply. The latest episode of the Small Data Forum podcast follows the classic narrative arc of a three-act story. Beginning, middle, and end. The set-up, the confrontation, and the resolution. Thesis, antithesis, synthesis. And although our wide-ranging discussion did run the risk of leaving all three co-hosts in the depths of despair, Neville Hobson, Thomas Stoeckle, and I end up hoping that the asteroid NASA predicts is hurtling towards earth … [Read more...] about SDF Podcast 18: Inertia, ethics, and breaches of trust

Filed Under: Small Data Forum, Advertising, Business, Communication, Ethics, Marketing, Politics, Public Relations, Social Networks, Society, Technology, Web Tagged With: big data, Facebook, Google

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