At the New Communications Forum in Palo Alto, just after 8.30am here. Sitting in the main session room to get online, check RSS feeds, and write this quick post. I might even get some time to blog some of the sessions today. Since leaving Amsterdam on Tuesday, I’ve had so…
The New Communications Forum conference takes place in Palo Alto, California, USA, from March 1-3, 2006. Shel and Neville held a half-day workshop, Podcasting 101, on March 1 that addressed: The elements of successful podcasting How to strategize a business podcast How to build a community of listeners The tools…
Content summary: New Communications Forum this week; Eric Schwartzman interviews Elizabeth Albrycht; Google Page Creator update; social software in the enterprise – Niall Cook on intranets; using RSS without knowing it; PR how-to’s from Jeremy Zawodny; Lee Hopkins report; listeners’ comments discussion; the FIR Frappr community; the music; and more.…
Hugh and I were exchanging some emails about my little faux pas over my previous post about Edelman (re a story that turned out not to be true). Mea culpa, said Hugh. A kind response, but it was more to do with my own ‘click-and-post’ behaviour rather than ‘click-and-read-everything first.’…
First it was Phil Gomes last August. Then it was Guillaume du Gardier in October. And then Steve Rubel this month (starting today, in fact). All three communicators, bloggers I know and major influencers in social media and PR, were snapped up by Edelman. And the PR group’s objectives are…
If you pay attention to what’s going on in the broad tech world (Tech Memeorandum is a great way to get the hum of some opinion), you can’t help but notice things like the growing buzz about Microsoft’s Origami during the past few days. Like at least half the blogosphere…
A thoughtful feature in the Financial Times discusses the question of why in-house collaboration in organizations is so difficult, with the consequent impact on effective working. The article highlights some accepted theories about this, including these: [The first theory] is that most companies have “first generation organisation structures and second…
Robert Scoble reports a big upward blip in sales of Naked Conversations, the business book on blogging he co-authored with Shel Israel: I was talking with Richard Edelman yesterday (his blog is here) and he told me he bought about 250 copies of my book. “Oh, were you the one…
