Year: 2008

  • The cost of Twitter productivity is a bargain

    During last summer, there was a spate of mainstream media commentary that social networks like Facebook serve little or no purpose from a business point of view. Much reporting about companies banning Facebook in the workplace. We were even treated…

  • My week in media

    A meme started doing the rounds among some mainstream media types last August on what some people do and read online. I hadn’t seen it until a post by Drew Benvie included me among those he tagged. So in the…

  • The FIR Listener Contest is open

    If you’re wondering about business podcasting – how to start one, where it might fit within your communication planning, or even how to make your current podcast more effective – winning the FIR Listener Contest could be the answer you’re…

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #307: January 3, 2008

    Content summary: Today is FIR’s third anniversary; new FIR discussion forum is up; latest IABC Cafe2Go podcast posted; vote for FIR at Podcast Alley; announcing the FIR listener contest; GMnext: the launch by General Motors, exclusive FIR Interview posted; the…

  • Risks of pushing a terms of use envelope

    Quite a major kerfuffle has developed in the past 24 hours over Facebook booting Robert Scoble out of the social network. Facebook sent him an email that accused him of running an automated script which is in violation of Facebook’s…