Month: April 2009

  • The tipping point for UK political blogs

    Although I’ve largely been offline over the Easter weekend – meaning, not using Twitter or much RSS reading – I have been following developments in the extraordinary tale of No 10’s (former) communication strategist Damian McBride’s emails to LabourList blogger…

  • Powerful imagery at Easter

    This Good Friday is an apt day on which to think about death and destruction. Rather, avoiding death and destruction in a world without nuclear weapons, a call to action made by Barack Obama in Prague last week. The Economist…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #438: April 9, 2009

    Content summary: Win free entry to Next09 in FIR Listener Contest; follow-up discussion: Robert Scoble on PR and Shel’s blog post response; Dan York reports on Seesmic Desktop, TweetDeck, Twitter plugins for WordPress, the AP and more; the Media Monitoring…

  • The rise of the Twitter business opportunity

    So as Twitter continues it’s seemingly endless growth trajectory – the micro-blogging service now has about 10 million users worldwide, says comScore – it shouldn’t surprise anyone that there are opportunities for consultants to help businesses figure out the value…

  • The risk of reputation destruction

    It’s a bit of a macabre topic, one that wouldn’t readily spring to your mind: the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act, which came into effect in the UK a year ago, aims to ensure organizations are held to account…