Year: 2013

  • FIR Interview: Allan Schoenberg on Social Media and CME Group at #b2bhuddle

    With social media so prolific, are B2B companies taking advantage of all that exists? That question formed a foundation for the keynote presentation by Allan Schoenberg, Executive Director of Corporate Communications for CME Group, at The B2B Huddle on May…

  • Humour debunks marketing myths for Adobe

    Intelligent humour that doesn’t patronize and isn’t condescending – it just makes you laugh – surely must be a Holy Grail for marketers when designing their campaigns. If something makes you laugh, particularly because you can identify in some way…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #703: May 13, 2013

    Intro: First B2B Huddle keynote published as an FIR Speakers and Speeches podcast, more this week and next; FIR Book Review of Philip Sheldrake’s ‘Attenzi’ coming; Quick News: Calgary Zoo publishes annual report to Instagram, Salesforce acquires bookmarking startup Clipboard,…

  • An opportunity for IABC to care

    Last November, I ended a 23-year relationship with IABC, the International Association of Business Communicators, when I let my membership lapse. I wrote about it in February and outlined some thinking about why I hadn’t renewed it. Six months later,…

  • Your gleeful inner child: a marketing winner for Evian

    Evian, the premium bottled-water brand of French foods group Danone, has enjoyed some success in recent years for its imaginative and virally-attractive online video campaigns centred around babies. Not ordinary babies, though – these are dancing babies and roller-skating babies,…