Year: 2011

  • FIR Cut: Childish PR practices, the end of email

    Overflow from FIR #588 on February 28, 2011. PR Daily: A PR rep unfollows a journalist because of critical stories Financial Times: European company will ban internal use of email by 2014 (free FT registration required) Download this podcast (MP3,…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #588: February 28, 2011

    Content summary: FIR Interview with OneForty.com’s Laura Fitton is up and one with the Financial Times on its mobile efforts is coming; congratulations to Voce Communications on its acquisition by Porter-Novelli; a review of Peter Shankman’s new book is coming…

  • Behaviorgraphics: better understanding of levels of engagement

    One of the best visual aids to understanding influence, influencers and people’s behaviours online is the technograhics ladder created by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff for their book, Groundswell, in 2007 and updated in early 2010. (Click the thumbnail to…

  • Windows 7 SP1 painless update

    Earlier this week, Microsoft publicly released the first service pack for Windows 7. Maybe it’s a sign of the times that such a software release didn’t capture much attention outside the tech community, unlike the huge attention Microsoft used to…

  • FIR Interview: Laura Fitton on the business focus at OneForty.com

    OneForty.com started out as a Twitter app store, the brainchild of Twitter convert Laura Fitton. The site has recently undergone a major shift in focus. While continuing to offer 3,000-plus apps – mostly for Twitter but expanding into other social…