Year: 2008

  • Breaking down a mobile wall

    A conversation with Whatleydude at last week’s Social Media Cafe in London proved extremely useful in making a change to my relationship with my mobile service provider, Vodafone. Whatleydude told me that Vodafone offers a network unlock code free of…

  • Cut from FIR #362

    Overflow from today’s FIR #362: News That Fits Why should HR embrace corporate social networking? Slowdown in hiring PR staff Listen to these FIR Cuts: [display_podcast] Download FIR Cut MP3s: Corporate social networking (5:04) | PR Jobs (1:05) If you…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #362: July 14, 2008

    Content summary: New FIR Interview posted; Shel’s travels; Molson blogger outreach follow-up; Michael Netzley in Singapore shares statistics and two case studies from Malaysia; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: knife crime battle turns to Facebook, three…

  • The power of love

    It’s been hard to avoid reading about the new 3G iPhone, launched around the world on Friday. Much of what I’ve seen has been about the frustrations and disappointments with Apple’s activation system, resulting in hundreds if not thousands of…

  • Blogging has more than one king

    So the question ‘Is blogging worthwhile?’ has been raised again, this time centered around Jason Calcanis’ grand announcement last week that he’s giving it all up. Calcanis says he’s going to write his thoughts instead as emails to a select…