Year: 2008

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #341: May 1, 2008

    Content summary: Upcoming FIR Book Reviews and FIR Interviews podcasts; Dan York reports on blog security, Twubble and finding Twitter followers; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Reuters Thomson publishes code of business practice and ethics: how good is it…

  • Web 2.0 from the communicator’s viewpoint

      When I lead workshops, seminars and other professional development events that address social media and organizational communication, I always ask who’s heard of the term ‘Web 2.0.’ Usually, a reasonable number have, often as much as 20 percent of…

  • A nice little earner from mobile roaming

    Channel 4 broadcast a hard-hitting report on Monday by its Dispatches investigative reporting team on the UK mobile phone business. Allegations of sharp practices by mobile phone retailers (an outfit called Phones4U came under especially severe criticism), denial of responsibility…

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #340: April 28, 2008

    Content summary: Reflections on FIR 339; Lee Hopkins’ transition and introducing Michael Netzley; great content in IABC Cafe2Go April podcast; Michael Netzley reports from Singapore on PR and digital media in Asia; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; does blogging…

  • Product placement insight from Mercedes-Benz

    The movie version of the hit TV series Sex and the City opens in the UK later next month. Stars of the show look like being the range of Mercedes-Benz vehicles as much as Carrie, Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte. Yesterday’s…