Today, January 3, 2010, is rather a special day for Shel Holz and I as it marks the fifth anniversary of For Immediate Release: The Hobson and Holtz Report, the podcast we both started on January 3, 2005. To me, […]
Category Archive: Personal Development
A bit of a dramatic headline, perhaps, but Sin City aka Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, is where I’m headed on Sunday morning on a Virgin Atlantic flight where I’ll be for most of next week, back here in the UK […]
[Update Oct 2: If you see the comments to this post, you will see so many messages with warm wishes. It’s almost overwhelming. See the end of this post for my audio response to everyone.] Big decisions sometimes don’t require […]
Email and I have a love/hate relationship, leaning mostly towards hate. One of the things I’ve never been able to organize effectively is access to my domain email from any device, especially mobile devices. Email hell endured for almost an […]
It’s a bit blurry but there’s no mistaking the youthful Matt Mullenweg pictured at WordCamp UK in Cardiff yesterday. I took this pic of the WordPress founder on my Nokia N95 8GB at full zoom from my spot at the […]
I’m going to be at TweetCamp London 09 in Richmond tomorrow, June 27. In common with quite a few others, I want to see what an unconference that focuses on the cross-over of relationships developed primarily on Twitter into the […]
I’ve been in two minds all week about whether to post this photo here or not. It seemed too much like own-horn tooting or trumpet-blowing. But today I thought, what the heck, it’s a milestone event, let’s just get it […]
On Saturday morning, I’ll be on a plane from London Heathrow to San Francisco to take part in the 2009 IABC World Conference. The prime reason I’m going is because I’m receiving the 2009 Chairman’s Award on Sunday evening, a […]
There’s been quite a bit of talk today about the degree course in social media being offered by Birmingham City University that provides graduates of the course with an MA in Social Media. The two mainstream media reports I’ve seen […]
Sometimes, if something good happens to you that other people publicly talk about a lot, you really have little option but to talk about it a bit yourself as well, if only to acknowledge that others are saying things. And […]
We call it a CV in the UK but it’s a good start to Robert Scoble’s 18+ tips in If you are laid off, here’s how to socially network. 1. Your blog is your resume. You need one and it […]
Forming alliances with like-minded smart people is one of the most exciting aspects of this new-ish tech-influenced world of disruptive change in how people communicate and connect with others. What I find especially thrilling is when an alliance of such […]