Month: August 2012

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #664: August 13, 2012

    Content summary: FIR Interview with Cisco’s John Earnhardt posted; Quick News Clips: your FIR co-hosts inspire a PRSA press release about ethics in public relations; try The Crisis Show, a G+ Hangout podcasty thing; HuffPostLive video launches; Connectify Dispatch on…

  • Salute the Olympic spirit

    So the London 2012 Olympic Games have come to an end. A spectacular closing ceremony last night – with music, song, dance, awe-inspiring stadium lighting and fireworks that made up the greatest show on earth – brought the past two…

  • Olympic benefits for corporate reputations

    The past two weeks of the London 2012 Olympic Games have certainly been a time of drama, high emotion, success and failure, and a general lifting of the spirits to witness such displays of intense effort and much achievement by…

  • Kick-starting Connectify Dispatch

    The most useful software tool for Windows that I’ve discovered this year (if not in the past few years) is Connectify. This utility lets you connect your laptop, netbook or other Windows PC to a wired or wireless internet connection,…

  • What if Wikipedia was a bit prettier and more usable?

    Imaginative, well thought out ideas – they definitely make Wikipedia prettier – which I’m interpreting as meaning far easier to understand the structure and navigate it to the things that interest you. I’d argue that usability would be improved, too…