Month: September 2007

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #274: September 10, 2007

    Content summary: Shel’s in DC; new FIR Interview posted; more warnings about Quechup; Lee Hopkins reports on Windows Live Writer beta 3, Foldershare; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Cogenz releases API; enterprise social networking is taking off; social web…

  • Total Commander: The indispensable utility for PCs

    Do you have a favourite application on your PC that you simply couldn’t live without? I do. It’s a utility called Total Commander. If you remember the good old days of MS-DOS in the 80s, you might have used Norton…

  • A good pitch that counters the bad pitches

    Reading through The Bad Pitch Blog by Kevin Dugan and Richard Laerner really does bring home to you how appallingly bad some of our colleagues in the PR profession are in how they reach out to people to pitch their…

  • Playing the energy game

    One public affairs campaign that I’ve been paying attention to for the past year is willyoujoinus.com, the campaign sponsored by Chevron Oil that’s about drawing attention to energy conservation and climate change and which I first heard about in February…

  • FIR Interview – Peter Brill, Radio Salaam Shalom: September 7, 2007

    Encouraging dialogue and understanding between Muslim and Jewish communities is the ambitious goal of Radio Salaam Shalom, an internet radio station based in Bristol, England. Broadcasting a mixture of music and speech and focus on the many aspects of Jewish…