Author: Neville Hobson

  • Will Klout ever let you go?

    In November 2011, I quit Klout. Totally and completely. Not only did I close the account, but also I cancelled permissions to allow Klout to connect to each of the online social places to which I’d previously given it permission.…

  • The Google neural network

    Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols explains how the new Google+ naming system will work, enabling business people and business brands to have custom URLs: short, easy-to-remember web addresses that should make it easier to find a business profile or page on Google+.…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #664: August 13, 2012

    Content summary: FIR Interview with Cisco’s John Earnhardt posted; Quick News Clips: your FIR co-hosts inspire a PRSA press release about ethics in public relations; try The Crisis Show, a G+ Hangout podcasty thing; HuffPostLive video launches; Connectify Dispatch on…

  • Salute the Olympic spirit

    So the London 2012 Olympic Games have come to an end. A spectacular closing ceremony last night – with music, song, dance, awe-inspiring stadium lighting and fireworks that made up the greatest show on earth – brought the past two…

  • Olympic benefits for corporate reputations

    The past two weeks of the London 2012 Olympic Games have certainly been a time of drama, high emotion, success and failure, and a general lifting of the spirits to witness such displays of intense effort and much achievement by…