Year: 2010

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #524: February 8, 2010

    Content summary: MediaFunnel FIR interview is up; Help A PR Pro Out; Michael Netzley reports from Singapore; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: what Vodafone did when an employee tweeted obscenely, wide and mostly negative reaction to…

  • Twitter and Facebook part of Costa Rica election

    Electing a woman to be your head of state isn’t that big a deal these days. The latest country to join a long list of states with women leaders is Costa Rica: in the presidential election conducted yesterday, the winner…

  • FIR Interview: Andreas Wilkens and Michele Macpherson of MediaFunnel

    MediaFunnel is a web-based platform for managing team contributions to an organization’s social media output. Initially developed for teams contributing content to branded Twitter accounts, it is expanding into Facebook and other social media channels. In this FIR Interview, co-host…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #523: February 4, 2010

    Content summary: New FIR Speakers & Speeches podcast is up; upcoming FIR Interview with Marc Wright; Dan York’s report; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: new Pew study on social media/mobile internet use among teens and young…

  • Wikio Top 30 UK tech blogs for Feb 2010

    There are some interesting changes in the ranking of the top 30 technology blogs in the UK compared to last month, according to the latest data from Wikio, the Luxembourg-based search engine and news portal. An advance look at this…