Month: May 2011

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #599: May 16, 2011

    Content summary: The 600th episode of FIR is next week; FIR promo: free tickets to Social Media Marketing & Monitoring 2011 conference in San Francisco on May 23; listener comments discussion; Ragan promo; News That Fits – the Burson Marsteller…

  • How Burson Marsteller can emerge from its Facebook PR fiasco

    The "dirty tricks" kerfuffle surrounding Facebook and Burson Marsteller that erupted a few days ago surely couldn’t get worse for the beleaguered PR firm – but it did. Burson was caught out in a covert anti-Google smear campaign on behalf…

  • The IABC sunshine conference

    I did like the "Hello, sunshine!" greeting on the promotional postcard mailing you see here that I received this week from IABC about the 2011 World Conference taking place in San Diego, USA, next month. In British usage, ‘hello sunshine’…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #598: May 9, 2011

    Content summary: FIR listener survey coming soon; FIR promo: free tickets to Social Media Marketing & Monitoring 2011 conference in San Francisco on May 23; our best wishes to CC Chapman as he recovers from surgery; listener comments discussion; Ragan…

  • Understand more about social CRM

    Last Friday, I participated in Social CRM 2011, a one-day conference in London organized by Luke Brynley-Jones. The event attracted well over 100 participants who came to hear a range of excellent speakers and join in discussion over a topic…