Month: May 2007

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #237: May 3, 2007

    Content summary: Vote for FIR at Podcast Alley; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Digg tries to stifle community freedom, and fails; BlogPhiladelphia; Second Life community pressures Linden Lab with Project Open Letter; Katie Paine’s social media measurement white paper;…

  • Things that keep communicators up at night

    If I were on the corporate, PR and/or internal communication teams involved in any of these current business situations, I’d undoubtedly be burning candles at all ends: As soon as Barclays Bank’s bid for ABN Amro Bank looked likely to…

  • Second Life community calls Linden Lab to action

    One question I often get asked when discussing Second Life from the business perspective is a tricky one: why do companies in Second Life put up with an environment where the infrastructure is continuously flaky? By ‘flaky,’ the meaning is…

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #236: April 30, 2007

    Content summary: Update on the “How to do everything with podcasting” book; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; book on tape meets RSS on iPod; blogging on behalf of a client and ghost blogging; study: influencers rely on the internet…