Year: 2012

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #660: July 16, 2012

    Content summary: FIR Interviews with Marcus Nelson and Chris Sorek coming soon; Ragan promo; News That Fits: executives need to catch up with social media; Michael Netzley reports from Singapore on recent reports on digital talent in Asia and ICT…

  • Planning the next Dell B2B Social Media Huddle for #SMWLDN

    Mark your calendar for the next Dell B2B Social Media Huddle that will take place in London on September 24, 2012 – the first day of the second Social Media Week London this year. For this fifth Huddle, we’re back…

  • Do corporate apologies make any difference?

    Reading today’s Telegraph over breakfast this morning, I opened page 6 to see a large display ad by Barclays Bank, pictured, containing an open letter of apology signed by its chairman, Marcus Agius. The apology is to do with the…

  • The definition of management

    According to Dilbert. Love the humour, which reminds me of a workplace culture I experienced a previous life or two ago. No trust at all. Mind you, employee behaviours didn’t help. And leadership was dysfunctional, at best. All a virtuous…

  • The 2012 Olympics TV experiences look very good

    Whatever else is going on about the London 2012 Olympics – border control  nightmares at Heathrow, cracks in the M4 motorway, cellular network outages, not enough security staff – it looks like mainstream broadcast media have things well under control…