Month: September 2013

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #723: September 30, 2013

    Intro: First episode of FIR On Strategy with Andrea Vascellari published, new FIR Speakers & Speeches podcast posted with Shel Holtz on social visual communication, FIR Interview with Robert Scoble and Shel Israel on ‘Age of Context’ coming on October…

  • The changes that did for BlackBerry

    Summarizing the tale of the rise and fall of mobile device and services maker BlackBerry as “changing too little and changing far too late” is probably as good as any way of succinctly capturing the sense of the huge fall…

  • FIR Speakers and Speeches: Shel Holtz on social visual communication

    On September 26, 2013, FIR co-host Shel Holtz spoke at a PRSA California Capitol Chapter‘s monthly meeting in Sacramento, California. The topic: social-visual communication – the rise of images and extreme-short-form video as a primary means of communication. Brought about…

  • A simple solution for EDF Energy’s marketing problem

    So EDF Energy has told its customers it can only recommend lower cost gas and electricity tariffs on annual bills if they “opt in” to receive advertising material. Reading the report in today’s Telegraph, I was pretty sure that EDF…

  • The over-arching strategy for Google+

    One of the characteristics of any conversation about Google+ is a view that not many people actually use it – mostly the “users” versus “active users” argument – and how it will fail as it’s not like Facebook or Twitter…