Author: Neville Hobson

  • Should PowerPoint be banned from meetings?

    If you’ve suffered through meetings where colleagues use PowerPoint decks as their autocues for droning ‘presentations,’ you’ll love this development at two leading companies that could be a model for others to emulate. Author and communicator Eric Bergman reports that…

  • Chrome ready for the post-PC era

    The map presents a dramatic perspective of the changing fortunes in the desktop browser market.The line graph makes the rise of Google Chrome even clearer over the past five years. I’d say Chrome has a rosy future as the post-PC…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #716: August 12, 2013

    Intro: FIR Interview with Sharam Fouladgar-Mercer, AirPR CEO, is up; FIR Interviews coming with Craig Jolley on marketing automation, and with Jean Valin and Dan Tisch on the Melbourne Mandate; Bloggade 2013: the nuts and bolts of blogging and WordPress;…

  • Too much FUD and too little facts about fracking

    If there’s one major issue of significant public interest today that’s shrouded in fear, uncertainty and doubt, it’s fracking. If you believe the supporters of this mining process to extract natural gas and petroleum deposits from shale rock – formally…

  • FIR Interview: Sharam Fouladgar-Mercer, CEO of AirPR

    Sourcing a good PR pro can be likened to finding a needle in a haystack, according to Sharam Fouladgar-Mercer, co-founder and CEO of AirPR, a San Francisco-based tech start-up offering a digital by-invitation match-making service for PRs and entrepreneurs. In…