Year: 2008

  • What matters about a CEO blog

    Is blogging good value for the C-suite? asks Urs E. Gattiker writing in the Financial Times yesterday. It’s a good article that explores some important points about planning an executive blog, being clear about why you’d want to do one,…

  • FIR Interview: Peter Shankman of Help A Reporter Out

    Help A Reporter Out (HARO) began as a group on Facebook and is now a dedicated website with rapidly growing momentum. People sign up to receive queries from reporters looking to interview experts or people with experience for their articles.…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #361: July 10, 2008

    Content summary: Two new FIR Interviews posted; discussion: did Molson make the right connections with their blogger outreach?; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Dan York reports on Calliflower and more; mentioning the new iPhone; News That Fits: Google launches…

  • The data roaming cost cushion from 3

    Mobile operator 3 has taken the extraordinary step of disabling the general capability of using its mobile broadband data service while roaming out of a user’s home network. If you’re a 3 customer with a 3 broadband dongle – the…

  • FIR Interview: Al Comeaux, SVP Corporate Communications, Sabre Holdings

    When it began its life as an independent company, employees of Sabre Holdings – the company that (among other things) provides flight information to consumers and travel agents – mostly worked in the same physical location, making it easy to…