Year: 2008

  • FIR Interview: Paul Pendergrass, aka Jack Flack, blogger for the New York Times

    Paul Pendergrass, corporate communicator and executive speechwriter, recently joined the New York Times’ DealBook blog to write about PR and communications under the pen name Jack Flack. In this FIR Interview, Paul discusses the role of writing about his craft,…

  • CIPR offers new qualification in internal communication

    The Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR), the PR industry body in the UK, has launched the Internal Communication Certificate, a professional qualification aimed at those in the first few years of their internal communication career, those considering a career…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #393: October 30, 2008

    Content summary: Next FIR Live on Blogtalk Radio on November 7; new FIR interview coming with Jack Flack, New York Times; update: listeners’ thoughts on selecting podcasts; Dan York reports on Yammer, LinkedIn apps, and more; discussion: answering questions from…

  • Googlephone is the bees knees

    Could the Googlephone from T-Mobile be the best-kept secret in the UK today? I ask that slightly rhetorical question as I’ve seen very little online buzz for this mobile device – more formally known as the T-Mobile G1 – which…

  • Brand and Ross: Their publics may be their downfall

    The hot news today isn’t the global financial crisis. Nor is it the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Not even the US presidential election. No, hot news in the UK this morning is the kerfuffle surrounding entertainers Jonathan Ross and…