Year: 2011

  • Euroblog Social Media Awards call for entries

    An event I’m very happy to help raise awareness of is the 2011 Social Media Awards programme from the European Public Relations Education and Research Association (Euprera), that aims to recognize the best student and research PR blogging across Europe…

  • Stoking the buzz about Dell’s Vostro V130

    I can think of few better ways of spending part of Sunday than playing with a new tech toy. Which is precisely what I’ve done today with a new device that Dell have let me have as part of a…

  • FIR Book Review: Resonate by Nancy Duarte

    Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences, by Nancy Duarte FIR Book Reviews editor Bob LeDrew reviews Nancy Duarte’s Resonate. According to the Amazon.com review, “Presentations are meant to inform, inspire, and persuade audiences. So why then do so many…

  • A lot of help to figure out Quora

    If you’ve been paying attention to the social web in recent weeks, it’s very likely that you’ve given some attention to Quora, the question-and-answer service that seems to have come out of nowhere and exploded onto the scene, garnering all…

  • Comparing the economic state of the states

    Is the USA the world’s richest country, as many believe? I guess much depends on how you measure that. What about individual states? I’ve sometimes pondered that question myself, either in terms of outright wealth or economic measures like gross…