Month: March 2020
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Opportunity zooms
At a time when massive chunks of the economy are getting crushed, it’s obviously preferable to see your brand enjoying new awareness and engagement. But nobody wants to come across as a “crisis capitalizer,” swooping into a global tragedy with…
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FIR ZoomChat 1: The post-pandemic Future of Work
While many of us are under jurisdictional orders to remain in our homes, we can still get together socially. That’s just what Neville, Shel, and more than a dozen FIR listeners did on Thursday, March 26, using Zoom. This roughly…
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FIR 193: Zoombombing and other Coronavirus Tales
The March episode of “The Hobson & Holtz Report,” aka FIR 193, is a coronavirus communications special with Neville and Shel discussing these topics: How Shel and Neville’s respective organizations are communicating during the outbreak A study finds employers are…
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SDF 33: Convolvulus, Coronavirus & the Thomas theorem
Coronavirus, COVID-19 and the great mis-infodemic are centre stage in this episode 33 of the Small Data Forum podcast. The global pandemic provides Thomas Stoeckle, Sam Knowles and I with an array of topics to dissect and discuss as we…
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First order
In the Ottoman Empire coffee was banned by several sultans: the authorities realised that when people had had enough coffee they dared to challenge the existing order 1843 magazine: https://www.1843magazine.com/design/my-life-in-six-objects/elif-shafak-the-coffee-cup-that-reminds-me-of-istanbul