Month: January 2012

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #634: January 16, 2012

    Content summary: Update on SOPA; FIR Interviews posted: with John Clemons, interim IABC Executive Director, and a Google+ Hangout video interview with Stuart Bruce and Phil Gomes on Wikipedia and PR; inaugural FIR Book Club date reminder: January 27; review…

  • Good experience with a mobile Google+ Hangout

    One of the most appealing things about Google+ is the Hangouts video conferencing feature. It lets you conduct impromptu video conversations with up to ten people with just your connected computer and a webcam and microphone. Nothing to install or…

  • Three candidates for new PR definition

    The PRSA-led global initiative to find a new definition for public relations has moved into an interesting phase as it extends the time for deciding on what will be the one. Rather than the PRSA and its global partners choose…

  • FIR Interview: Stuart Bruce and Phil Gomes on PR and Wikipedia

    FIR co-hosts Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz host a Google+ Hangout with Stuart Bruce, principal, Stuart Bruce Associates, and Phil Gomes, Sr. VP, Edelman Digital, to discuss efforts to improve the ability of corporate representatives to make ethical, transparent, disclosed…

  • TFL’s stop-start approach to combating vehicle pollution

    As someone who drives into and out of central London quite frequently, I’m as conscious as any road user of the huge traffic congestion that’s a feature of a typical journey, along with consequential environment issues like exhaust emissions and…