Author: Neville Hobson

  • Barclays cultural crookery and immorality

    What a destruction of trust in this report of what people in Barclays Bank have been doing behind the scenes and for which the bank has been fined £290 million. […] Former City minister Lord Myners told the BBC that…

  • The journey begins: guidance from the CIPR on PR and Wikipedia published

    It’s taken quite a while but it’s finally here – Wikipedia Best Practice Guidance for Public Relations Professionals: version 1 of a document that sets out a formal picture on how the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) believes public…

  • Presenting a video and slideshow mashup

    In  May, I wrote about Present.me, a cloud-based tool that lets you create audio-visual presentations combining a slide deck with a video you record to make an online presentation that your community can watch on demand, any time. As the…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #657: June 25, 2012

    Content summary: Neville’s at SWCC meeting in Bath on June 25; Shel’s at the IABC World Conference, FIR lunchtime meetup in Chicago on Wednesday June 27; FIR Interview with Badgeville’s Adena DeMonte is up; FIR Book Review by Bob LeDrew…

  • FIR Interview: Badgeville Marketing Director Adena DeMonte

    Badgeville, the gamification service, introduced “social mechanics” on June 20, with features including a “Behavior Graph” that allows companies to measure specific social behaviours, and “Social Context,” an activity stream not unlike a Facebook newsfeed that companies can add to…