Year: 2008

  • FIR Interview: Chuck Hester, iContact, on tapping into the power of LinkedIn

    LinkedIn, the business social network, has surged to 30 million profiles, most of them for business people with titles of director or higher. Still, a lot of people get their LinkedIn accounts, expand their networks, then wonder what to do…

  • Cuts from FIR #400

    Overflow from FIR #400 on November 24: News That Fits Referenced content: Is LinkedIn a threat or an opportunity for investor relations? The best and worst of communications Traffic soars for financial blogs but will it last? Google SearchWiki: Love…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #400: November 24, 2008

    Content summary: This is the 400th episode: thanks to sponsors Ragan Communications and CustomScoop, and correspondents Lee Hopkins, Dan York, David Phillips, Eric Schwartzman, Sallie Goetsch, Michael Netzley, plus all members of the FIR community; about this Thursday’s show; Michael…

  • The Facebook jury

    If you have to serve on a jury in a criminal trial, you’d more than likely think very carefully about discussing that trial outside the jury room and what’s going on in court. You wouldn’t blog about it, tweet it…

  • What Twitter with ads might look like

    Web technologist Niall Kennedy has done something very interesting with Twitter – he created TwitterFE. […] a fully-functional read-only clone of Twitter.com designed to make your web browser sing. I created the site as an example of web development best…