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Author: Neville Hobson

  • Good words on the Social Media MBA

    Last year, I wrote and contributed a chapter to The Social Media MBA, a collaborative book published in the UK in January 2012 and in the US in February. I heard from the book’s editor, Christer Holloman, the other day…

  • The bottom line on business morality, at Goldman Sachs or wherever

    The New York Times publishes an extraordinary op-ed today – the text of a resignation letter by Greg Smith, a Goldman Sachs executive director and head of the firm’s United States equity derivatives business in Europe, the Middle East and…

  • A death is announced: the printed Encyclopaedia Britannica

    A death is announced: the printed Encyclopaedia Britannica

    A milestone has been reached in the evolution of factual reference information with news that probably the most famous of all general reference works in the English language, the Encyclopaedia Britannica, will stop making the printed encyclopedia after 244 years…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #642: March 12, 2012

    Content summary: Two new FIR Book Review podcasts now up; is FIR too long?; News That Fits: Is public relations the profession of liars? asks PRSA’s Gerard Corbett; Michael Netzley reports from Singapore on China’s social networks hit by censorship,…

  • Twitter hashtags: spam magnets

    One of the most useful engagement tools for a conference is a Twitter hashtag. This little device, where a word is connected to the hash symbol (#) – known as a pound sign in the US – is a useful…