Author: Neville Hobson

  • 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…

  • Dropbox outage shows the fragility of the cloud

    Cloud storage and file-hosting service Dropbox suffered a severe service outage this week that began on Friday night and, as I write these words on Saturday evening UK time, is still continuing. If you go to the Dropbox website, you’ll…

  • Is a (search) picture worth a thousand words?

    I’ve been having some fun this morning with Jelly. Jelly is a new mobile search service announced yesterday that works via apps for Android and iOS. The company was co-founded by Biz Stone, one of the original founders of Twitter.…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #737: January 6, 2014

    With this episode, we start our 10th year of The Hobson and Holtz Report; FIR Podcast Network News: Dan York’s first episode published on Dec 31: “FIR On Technology with Dan York, Episode 1 – Exploring Google+ Hangouts On Air”,…