Month: February 2009

  • Hedging your bets with Twitter

    It seems that everywhere I look this morning, I see someone talking about Twitter. I don’t mean twittering – using Twitter, although there’s the usual constant of that – but talking about Twitter. Among the pitches for marketing guides and…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #421: February 9, 2009

    Content summary: FIR Live discussion on trust posted, thanks to guest Richard Edelman; Neville named as honoree of the 2009 IABC Chairman’s Award; discussion: PR’s role in a crisis with US Airways’ jet in the Hudson River as reference; the…

  • Hardly anyone trusts the media

    Press intrusion and inaccurate reporting in the UK are getting worse because the recession has forced newspapers to make cutbacks, says the BBC in summarizing A More Accountable Press, a report published today by the Media Standards Trust which says…

  • Talking social media for lawyers

    As someone who enjoys experimenting, I count this as a first – a conversation with an influential lawyer-blogger, podcaster and tweeter in the UK, recorded and released as a podcast. I had a great 30-minute conversation this afternoon with Mike…

  • FIR Live #11: February 7, 2009

    Content Summary: The recently-published Edelman 2009 Trust Barometer formed the principal backdrop for a wide-ranging one-hour FIR Live on BlogTalk Radio discussion on the topic of trust from the communicator’s perspective. Discussion participants were FIR co-hosts Neville Hobson and Shel…