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Month: September 2009

  • Is ‘social business’ the new black?

    What does “social business” mean? I’ve been wondering this since reading about the acquisition of Headshift by US agency Dachis Group announced this morning UK time. Among the flowery prose in the press release is this phrase that strikes me…

  • The cloud is still not reliable enough

    Much gnashing of teeth yesterday as Gmail (Googlemail in the UK and Germany) was out for the count for some hours following what Google called ‘routine upgrades’ to some of their servers. In a post on the Official Gmail Blog,…

  • FIR Interview: Brian Solis and Deirdre Breakenridge

    In this FIR Interview, Shel Holtz and Neville Hobson talk with Brian Solis and Deirdre Breakenridge, co-authors of Putting the Public Back in Public Relations: How Social Media Is Reinventing the Aging Business of PR, now in its second printing.…

  • PayPal and SMS: a reassuring combination

    I bought my early-bird ticket for Reading Twestival this morning,  paying for it via PayPal. The simple purchase transaction I completed in a couple of minutes reminded me how much I place trust in PayPal, partly because of its neat…

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  • Absence makes the heart grow fonder

    I haven’t seen or heard much about the Climate Camp environmental get-together that’s been taking place in south London since last week. Spotting this tweet from the Metropolitan Police over the weekend saying that their mobile police station is closed…