Year: 2012

  • Pick up the pitchforks

    Powerful stuff from +Clay Shirky who describes the US entertainment and media industry thus in his call to ‘pick up the pitchforks’ re SOPA and PIPA: “[…] This is an industry that demands payment from summer camps if the kids…

  • FIR Interview: Social Media Monthly Publisher and Editor Bob Fine

    In this FIR Interview, FIR co-hosts Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz chat with Bob Fine, publisher and editor of The Social Media Monthly, a new print publication that is also a current Kickstarter project. The Social Media Monthly was conceived…

  • FIR Book Review: YouTube for Business by Michael Miller

    YouTube for Business: Online Video Marketing for Any Business, by Michael Miller, is the latest book to be reviewed by FIR Book Review editor Bob LeDrew. From the book description: “YouTube’s 120 million viewers are a tempting target for any…

  • Defining contemporary society

    Best words I’ve seen in a very long time that paint a compelling picture of what anyone with an opinion has the potential to do today: “We have gone from a world split between gatekeepers and media “consumers” to a…

  • Social Business – a history defined

    It seems that everyone is talking about social business. Whether it’s IBM launching its SmartCloud for social business, or marketers developing their social business strategies for 2012, the term ‘social business’ means different things to different people. So what does…