Year: 2009

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #416: January 22, 2009

    Content summary: FIR Interview with Jack O’Dwyer posted; next FIR Live on Feb 7; Dan York reports on the new White House blog, CNN and Facebook, tools for Twitter, Identica, and more; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That…

  • No thank you, Chrysler

    When Bob Nardelli, Chairman and CEO of beleaguered automaker Chrysler, posted Thank You America on Chrysler’s corporate blog at the end of December, I imagine the last thing he or his communications team expected was the scale and depth of…

  • The IPA is listening

    I’ve always thought of the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA) as a bit of a disconnected professional body, one that’s not quite in step with the realities of what’s happening in the professional trenches, as it were, regarding social…

  • FIR Interview: Jack O’Dwyer

    Jack O’Dwyer is widely recognized as a voice of influence in, and a critic of, the public relations profession in the United States as well as an observer and journalist focused on the profession. His firm, The O’Dwyer Company, has…

  • Twestival: tweeting-up with a social conscience

    If you’re a Twitter user, you like the idea of extending your virtual community into the real world, and you’d be keen to help a worthy cause, Twestival is right up your street. On February 12 in over 100 cities…