Year: 2009

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #440: April 16, 2009

    Content summary: Shel’s in Pittsburgh; take the 2009 FIR Listener Survey; next FIR Live on BlogTalk Radio on April 25; FIR Listener Contest still awaits first entrant; Dan York reports on Domino’s Pizza and communication futures; the Media Monitoring Minute…

  • Get the WSJ on your iPhone

    I used to be a paying subscriber to the Wall Street Journal, one of only two newspapers whose online content I’m willing to pay for (the other being the Financial Times). When it came to the toss a few years…

  • Social media baptism for Domino’s Pizza

    Yesterday was quite a day for Domino’s Pizza‘s leadership and the communication team. It was a day during which the number of people who viewed a nasty video posted to YouTube by two rogue employees approached a million,  thousands of…

  • WordPress support a phone call away

    From WordPress developer Alex King, probably best known as the creator of many useful and popular WordPress plugins, this looks like a great idea: WordPress HelpCenter is a real-time support center for all things WordPress. We can answer simple questions…

  • Note to Domino’s Pizza: News travels fast, especially when it’s bad

    (This post was updated during April 15 as events evolved: scroll down to see additional commentary.) A public relations disaster of potentially epic proportions is brewing for Domino’s Pizza following the antics of two employees and a video on YouTube.…