Year: 2012

  • Giving you a choice about cookies

    A year ago a law – known as Directive 2009/136/EC – came into effect throughout the European Union on the use of cookies on websites, requiring a website owner to seek visitors’ consent to cookies being saved to their computers…

  • FIR Live is back with all-star panel on influencer marketing

    Has it really been 10 months since the last FIR Live? It may have been a while, but when we decided to bring the real-time single-topic panel discussion back, we did it in a big way. We’ll be talking about…

  • Bonfire of the Vanities 2012

    The Tom Wolfe novel from the 1980s that’s the title of this post – along with the movie of the same name – comes to my mind when reading media reports and online commentary and punditry this morning about the…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #652: May 21, 2012

    Content summary: Michael Netzley in Singapore still without voice; FIR Speakers & Speeches podcast of Neville’s PRII conference presentation is up; next FIR Live on influence marketing set for June 16; Neville speaking at Like Minds conference in Exeter this…

  • Microsoft launches social search network So.cl

    Microsoft launched a “social search network” on Sunday – So.cl. Here’s how Microsoft describes it: So.cl (pronounced “social”) is an experimental research project, developed by Microsoft’s FUSE Labs, focused on exploring the possibilities of social search for the purpose of…