Year: 2012

  • Presenting a video and slideshow mashup

    In  May, I wrote about Present.me, a cloud-based tool that lets you create audio-visual presentations combining a slide deck with a video you record to make an online presentation that your community can watch on demand, any time. As the…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #657: June 25, 2012

    Content summary: Neville’s at SWCC meeting in Bath on June 25; Shel’s at the IABC World Conference, FIR lunchtime meetup in Chicago on Wednesday June 27; FIR Interview with Badgeville’s Adena DeMonte is up; FIR Book Review by Bob LeDrew…

  • FIR Interview: Badgeville Marketing Director Adena DeMonte

    Badgeville, the gamification service, introduced “social mechanics” on June 20, with features including a “Behavior Graph” that allows companies to measure specific social behaviours, and “Social Context,” an activity stream not unlike a Facebook newsfeed that companies can add to…

  • Because it’s a good cause

    Like most business bloggers, I’m pretty immune to unsolicited requests to publish guest posts and other content especially from people who clearly have undisclosed motives (take a look at what Paul Sutton has to say on that topic). Now and…

  • Google just disrupted the conference business with Hangouts On Air

    If you organize conferences and similar events, your future in terms of how you organize and price your events just got really interesting. If you’re a conference-goer, events that might be out of reach to you for reasons of distance…