Author: Neville Hobson

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #733: December 9, 2013

    Intro: Revisiting FIR’s RSS feeds (the everything feed means everything); last week’s Asia Report is a cut; FIR Book Review of “Age of Context” posted; upcoming interviews with Jeremiah Owyang, Joseph Jaffe and Maarten Albarda, and Sharam Faloudgar; In the…

  • New guide to better understanding social media from the CIPR

    Understanding the social media landscape can be trickier than it might seem. In the context of how and where social media fits into traditional marketing and communication activity – what it can deliver, how you benchmark it, how you measure…

  • Seven years on Twitter

    Today marks the seventh year I’ve been on Twitter. And this post marks that milestone to the minute as I signed up and posted my first tweet at 12.48pm UK time on December 7, 2006. signing up for twitter :)…

  • The social networking workplace conundrum

    A conversation yesterday with someone whose employer blocks access to Facebook and other sites on the social web highlights a real conundrum with such bans, as Scott Adams perceptively illustrates in yesterday’s Dilbert comic strip. Many employers cite time-wasting as…

  • FIR Book Review: Age of Context by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel

    FIR Book Review: Age of Context by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel

    Age of Context: Mobile, Sensors, Data and the Future of Privacy explores the convergence of five technological factors – mobile, social media, data, sensors and location – and their present and future impact on everything from commerce to medicine to…