Month: August 2011

  • Rock your holiday weekend

    It’s late summer bank holiday weekend in the UK, noted in the cultural calendar as not only the conclusion of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe but also for two big music festivals – Reading and Leeds – where thousands of music…

  • Common sense prevails on social disorder and social networks

    Yesterday, Home Secretary Theresa May met with representatives of Facebook, Twitter and BlackBerry Messenger and the police in a widely-reported get-together to discuss the rights and responsibilities of the users of social networks, and the rights and responsibilities of the…

  • How people tweet in China

    How people tweet in China

    Whenever China is a topic of business conversation, a communication service that’s talked about is Sina Weibo. The micro-blogging service – China’s Twitter equivalent – got mainstream attention outside China last month over its use as a primary communication channel…

  • Sign up for the fourth Dell B2B Social Media Huddle

    Helping people understand the role social media plays in business, and how to use it effectively in business-to-business communication, is once again the focus of the Dell B2B Social Media Huddle that takes place in London on November 3, 2011.…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #613: August 22, 2011

    Content summary: FIR listener survey live next week; Shel’s video interview with Lee Hopkins is up; some impressions of Asia from Shel’s three-country trip for IABC last week; Eric Schwartzman’s workshops cancelled outside North America; no Michael Netzley report this…