Month: April 2007

  • Unspinning PR one dent at a time

    Nearly 150 people crowded into a private room at the Slug & Lettuce pub in London’s Soho last night for PR Unspun, an event organized by Chinwag Live. I was there as part of the panel which included Jacqui White,…

  • The return of TechCrunch UK

    So TechCrunch UK is planning to relaunch on June 1. Part of the prep is hiring a new editor. The big TechCrunch falling-out was a lively story in the blogosphere late last year when Michael Arrington shut down the UK…

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #234: April 23, 2007

    Content summary: Neville’s 24-hour cold and the Vista effect on recording; Shel on the social outcomes from social media; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; reputation damage and the GMTV phone quiz ‘irregularity’; borrowing social media ideas for Accenture’s intranet;…

  • Keeping the conversation going

    If you followed the Stowe Boyd kerfuffle a few months ago – the one in which he says, broadly, that PR people don’t “get it” regarding social media – you’ll be interested in listening to Stowe talking to Eric Schwartzman…

  • Defining employee engagement

    Does anyone agree what employee engagement is? asks David Ferrabee. It’s a very good question. ‘Employee engagement’ is a phrase that appears frequently in media articles and blogs, yet it seems to me that people tend to use the phrase…