Author: Neville Hobson

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #712: July 15, 2013

    Intro: Shel’s in Ottawa, podcast of Brian Solis’ keynote at the B2B Huddle in London coming, FIR Interviews in planning with Sharam Fouladgar-Mercer (founder, AirPR) and Corey Connors (applied activity stream as internal communications focus); Quick News: PCWorld magazine exits…

  • What’s in a name?

    A service I’ve used since the mid 00s is YouSendIt, the freemium file-sharing service you use to send large files to people. It’s been a perfect tool over the years, especially in the days  when ‘large files’ typically meant anything…

  • Careless talk can cost you your life

    Belgian communications agency Duval Guillaume Modem is all about big ideas. Only ideas are the carriers of new thoughts and can influence behaviour, the agency says. Ideas are what differentiate human beings from other animals and computers. Ideas originate from…

  • Brian Solis and the evolution of social business

    A guest post by Brian Solis. Businesses are aspiring to find the fountain of truth. Social media professionals believe that transparency and authenticity reveal the way. It does, to some extent. But it doesn’t answer how businesses can earn relevance…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #711: July 8, 2013

    Intro: FIR Speakers and Speeches iConsumerism panel discussion at Imperial College is up, Brian Solis in London July 12: FIR S&S podcast to come; Quick News: Survey shows journalists trust elected officials more than PR people, the “Yellow Pages of…