Month: January 2014

  • FIR Interview: Laura Thomas, Dell’s new Chief Blogger

    One of the pioneering organizations that ventured into the embryonic blogosphere in the early days of social media was Dell with its Direct2Dell corporate blog. Launched in 2006, Direct2Dell gained early praise for its authenticity and transparency in how it…

  • Think of the new Gmail/Google+ features as part of the identity jigsaw

    Last week, Google announced the addition of an interesting new feature to Gmail – the ability for people you know on Google+ to email you even if they don’t have your email address. And vice-versa. I first heard about it…

  • “AMP Up Your Social Media” joins the FIR Podcast Network

    The FIR Podcast Network is pleased to announce the addition of a podcast on social media marketing that will begin in late January 2014. Presenter Glenn Gaudet explains… What is the role of social media in marketing? How do companies…

  • Re-Defining Today’s Communicator

    Re-Defining Today’s Communicator

    Two weeks into 2014 and much of the talk about what’s hot and what’s not for communicators is about technology. Of the many, many tech topics that appear on trends and predictions lists, there are three that I believe warrant…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #738: January 13, 2014

    In the FIR Podcast Network: ‘AMP Up Your Social Media with Glenn Gaudet’ joining the FIR Podcast Network, Chuck Hester interviewing Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen on ‘Linked Conversations,’ new episode of ‘TV@Work’ is up with Ron Shewchuk interviewing Erik…