Year: 2007

  • Speaking at the IRS conference

    About to head in to central London for the Investor Relations Society 2007 conference. I’ll be joining a panel to address a topic interestingly-described as “Technological download – Multimedia, XBRL, blogging and the like.” As my session is at about…

  • The silence of the Blackberry

    The Blackberry outage that left North American users of the ubiquitous wireless handheld email device in the dark for much of Wednesday didn’t prevent plenty of people communicating. Communicating about the loss of service, that is, via blog posts, Twitter,…

  • PR unspun

    How is the PR industry adapting now that social media is heading for mainstream adoption? That’s a good introductory description to an event I’m speaking at in central London in the evening of Tuesday April 24. The event is ‘PR…

  • Windows Vista rocks (mostly) but Outlook 2007 sucks

    During the Easter weekend, I installed Windows Vista on my primary desktop PC, a Dell Dimension XPSGen5. Ten days on, I have no real complaint at all about Vista. Some niggles, perhaps, but none are such that I’d even consider…

  • Social media’s key role in US university shooting

    Yesterday’s tragedy at Virginia Tech University in the US, where some 33 people were ruthlessly murdered, is unquestionably shocking (and I offer my own sympathies to the families of those killed and injured). The media worldwide is all over this…