Month: September 2008

  • An unwelcome email marketing tactic

    A marketing email from Dell caught my eye amongst all the inbox content because of the subject line: “Was it something we said?” Curiosity piqued, I clicked on it to open it, and saw the eye-catching image you see above.…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #377: September 4, 2008

    Content summary: SNCR awards deadline Sept 8; Twitter questions for Laura Fitton; PR Week blog contest update; follow-up discussion: Seth Godin and ‘the myth of launch PR’; Dan York reports on Google Chrome and upgrading the web; the Media Monitoring…

  • Really simple RSS with Wikio

    If you’re like me, you’ve probably got a range of options for people to subscribe to your blog’s RSS feed. In addition to your main feed, often via FeedBurner, you might offer little chicklets or links that enable people to…

  • A good time to join IABC is now

    If there’s one professional association I’m always willing to actively talk about, promote, and otherwise persuade communicators to be part of, it’s the International Association of Business Communicators, IABC. I’ve been a member since 1989. I’ve found the knowledge I’ve…

  • The Google way of effective communication

    Tech news that instantly spread beyond the blogosphere to the mainstream media is yesterday’s announcement from Google about Google Chrome (link not working as I write this), a new browser that’s expected to be launched in beta sometime today. Already…