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FIR 204: Won’t you Join Us in our Clubhouse?

February 28, 2021 by Neville Hobson 

Clubhouse iOS app

How safe is Clubhouse? asks Wired magazine in the latest critical look at the social audio service that appeared in April 2020 - less than a year ago. It's attracting huge attention globally. Alongside the hype and hyperbole that have been hallmarks of the perceived attractiveness and exclusivity of the invitation-only iOS app that passed ten million users in February - a five-fold growth since recording two million in January - there's increasing scrutiny of how the app works and how it … [Read more...] about FIR 204: Won’t you Join Us in our Clubhouse?

Filed Under: Business, Communication, Marketing, Podcasting, Social Networks, Software, Technology, The Hobson & Holtz Report, Web Tagged With: branter, Clubhouse, content moderation, Facebook, newsjacking, Privacy, Twitter Spaces

SDF 44: Facebook and the robber barons are at it again

February 23, 2021 by Neville Hobson 

Robber barons

Last week Facebook announced that it had decided to up the ante in its fracas with the Australian government and ban mainstream media news on its platform. The move meant that all Facebook users - not just Australians - would not be able to share or view news on Australian news Pages on Facebook. This move by Facebook was in response to the Australian government introducing a new law that would force Big Tech to pay media companies a fee to include their news in their users' news … [Read more...] about SDF 44: Facebook and the robber barons are at it again

Filed Under: Business, Communication, Politics, Public Relations, Small Data Forum, Social Media, Social Networks, Society, Technology Tagged With: Australia, Big Tech, capitol riots, Facebook, life hacks

FIR 203: Insurrection and Sea Shanties

January 27, 2021 by Neville Hobson 

fir203hero

'Trust' was the major theme for discussion in the January episode of The Hobson and Holtz Report podcast aka FIR 203 that Shel and I recorded last weekend and published on Monday. It underpinned all other topics we discussed as we started the episode reviewing the key analysis in the Edelman Trust Barometer 2021 - the report concludes that there is a 'crisis of leadership' with a growing trust gap and declines in trust worldwide; and without a trusted leadership source to look to, people … [Read more...] about FIR 203: Insurrection and Sea Shanties

Filed Under: Business, Communication, Employee Communication, Ethics, Politics, Public Relations, Reputation, Social Media, Social Networks, Society, Technology, Twitter Tagged With: capitol riots, Donald Trump, Facebook, Heinz, misinformation, sea shanty, TikTok, Trust, Trust Barometer, Twitter

FIR 197: A better social network

July 31, 2020 by Neville Hobson 

FIR 197

The July 2020 episode of The Hobson and Holtz Report, aka FIR 197, features Neville and Shel discussing… Emotional Intelligence as an Internal Communications focusAI avatars as a new tool for training and marketingThe latest TikTok newsWhat a better social network might look likeThe rise of Virtual and Augmented RealityThe staggering jobs challenge the world is facing Dan York reports on making video calls better, apps that keep copying each other, Amazon’s new live-streaming for … [Read more...] about FIR 197: A better social network

Filed Under: Artificial Intelligence, Communication, Marketing, Politics, Public Relations, Social Media, Social Networks, Society, Software, Technology, The Hobson & Holtz Report, Trends, Workplace Tagged With: COVID-19, deepfakes, Facebook, Snapchat, Tik Tok, VR

FIR 196: Speak up, Twitter

June 30, 2020 by Neville Hobson 

Twitter record audio

The June 2020 episode of The Hobson and Holtz Report features Neville and Shel discussing… Their appearance on Joe Jaffe’s broadcast showA report on the all-virtual IABC World ConferenceTwitter’s move to let users record and tweet audio (but only on iOS for now)Three new blockchain developments of interest to communicatorsFlipboard’s new Storyboard featureA user email that prompted Merriam-Webster to update a dictionary definitionHow Wikipedia became a battleground for racial … [Read more...] about FIR 196: Speak up, Twitter

Filed Under: Communication, IABC, Marketing, Podcasting, Social Media, Technology, The Hobson & Holtz Report, Trends, Twitter, Workplace Tagged With: blockchain, Facebook, Flipboard, Joseph Jaffe, Merriam-Webster, wikipedia

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