Month: March 2009

  • What you can learn from the FT

    Lots of people have lots of opinions about news and information online and what the future might be for mainstream media in a time of declining circulations and advertising revenues, not to mention a severe recession. The Financial Times seems…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #429: March 9, 2009

    Content summary: Next FIR Live on Blogtalk Radio on March 18; Michael Netzley reports on responsible blogging in Singapore; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: eBay’s guidelines for reporting company information via Twitter, judges warm to microblogging…

  • Do your bit for Red Nose Day

    I’m helping to get the word out about Red Nose Day 2009. I’ve created my digital red nose photo. Happy to have contributed £1 for that (paid via PayPal, making it so easy). I’ve changed my Twitter avatar to this…

  • Value your professional membership

    An intriguing post showed up in my RSS reader this morning under the ‘public relations’ tracking tag: Ten things to manage in a recession: 1 – memberships. The writer, Paul Wilkinson, says: […] if you are a marketeer, what can…

  • Figuring out the social media mix

    Last week, I spoke about social media and communication at three terrific events in London. I talked about all three in a segment for last Thursday’s FIR episode 428 podcast. That segment didn’t make it into the show, though, as…