Year: 2011

  • What is Klout worth to you?

    What a kerfuffle Klout has stirred up! The US company that offers a service to “measure influence online” made changes last week in the technology it uses to calculate an individual’s influence rank known as a Klout Score. One of…

  • Starting up The Social Media MBA

    Earlier this year, I was invited to contribute content for a new business book on social media. That book, The Social Media MBA, is now done and dusted as it were and will be in bookshops and online in January…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #622: October 24, 2011

    Content summary: Lunch with Jeremiah Owyang last week; thanks to Debi Davies for adding to the show notes; GaggleAmp update; News That Fits: Content marketing drives B2B; Dan York reports on RIM’s BlackBerry woes, and more; Ragan promo; how recruiters…

  • The graphic new media landscape

    As voices continue to be raised on the ethics and morality of mainstream media use of disturbing and graphic images of Muammar Gaddafi in the moments before and after his violent death, a Reuters report offers some insightful perspectives on…

  • The biography of the moment

    I turned on my Kindle first thing this morning, and there it was – the Steve Jobs biography. I pre-ordered the Kindle edition when it was announced some months ago. Since then, comment and opinion about the widely-anticipated book, published…