Month: September 2011

  • Crowdsourcing a new ringtone for Nokia

    The default ringtone on a Nokia mobile phone – the trademarked Nokia tune – is instantly recognizable to many people, certainly among the millions who use Nokia phones or have friends or colleagues who do. Now Nokia wants to change…

  • Take the FIR Listener Survey 2011 and help shape the show of the future

    Ever since Shel Holtz and Neville Hobson started the For Immediate Release podcast series in 2005 with The Hobson and Holtz Report in January of that year, finding out what our listener community thinks and wants has been important to…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #615: September 5, 2011

    Content summary: Vote for FIR on Podcast Alley; it’s Labor Day in the US; Lionel Menchaca interview is up, interviews coming with Jeremiah Owyang, HSBC, Mark Dollins, Mark Hillary; game-based marketing book review is coming; Neville’s impressions of last week’s…

  • Hands-on and strategy: two social media events in London this month

    If you’re looking for help with getting to grips with your social media marketing, or trying to understand the strategic aspects of social media for your business, there are two distinct events in London coming up later this month that…

  • Voices from the Ealing tweetup

    Just under a year ago, I went to my first Ealing Tweetup in Ealing, west London. Organized by Mark Hillary, it was unlike any other tweetup I’d been to before in a number of ways especially the local-community, non-geeky feel…