Author: Neville Hobson

  • A day of value and insight at #smwSMILE

    Last night, I was reviewing the videos, photos and blog posts written about Simply SMILE, the one-day conference focused on internal communication and social media that took place on September 23, 2013. It was part of Social Media Week London,…

  • FIR Interview: Robert Scoble and Shel Israel, authors of Age of Context

    Two men who have been at the vanguard of social media and the disruptive evolution that different ways of working and communicating have emerged in businesses everywhere over the past decade are Robert Scoble and Shel Israel. Their seminal work…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #723: September 30, 2013

    Intro: First episode of FIR On Strategy with Andrea Vascellari published, new FIR Speakers & Speeches podcast posted with Shel Holtz on social visual communication, FIR Interview with Robert Scoble and Shel Israel on ‘Age of Context’ coming on October…

  • The changes that did for BlackBerry

    Summarizing the tale of the rise and fall of mobile device and services maker BlackBerry as “changing too little and changing far too late” is probably as good as any way of succinctly capturing the sense of the huge fall…

  • FIR Speakers and Speeches: Shel Holtz on social visual communication

    On September 26, 2013, FIR co-host Shel Holtz spoke at a PRSA California Capitol Chapter‘s monthly meeting in Sacramento, California. The topic: social-visual communication – the rise of images and extreme-short-form video as a primary means of communication. Brought about…