Author: Neville Hobson

  • Three things to make QR codes worthwhile

    No surprises in this AdAge story about widespread use of QR codes that haven’t captured consumer imagination when it includes this statement: “Experts cite three reasons that QR codes haven’t caught on. First, people are confused about how to scan…

  • FIR Book Review: ROI of Social Media

    The ROI of Social Media: How to Improve the Return on Your Social Marketing Investment, by Guy R. Powell, Steven W. Groves and Jerry Dimos, is the latest book to be reviewed by FIR Book Reviews editor Bob LeDrew. Comment…

  • A golden milestone to mark a decade

    The Golden Age of tech blogging is over, says Jeremiah Owyang in his post on December 27. […] Like the film industry, the Golden Era is the emergence period, when fresh innovation in a new medium is born. New techniques,…

  • Klout boils down to a $ value

    Nothing wrong with that when it's transparent – Klout is about $ values, to marketers for information about you and your online behaviours, and to you, as suggested in the infographic. The more you surface yourself online, the greater the…

  • That prediction of 400m users by end of 2012 is perfectly feasible based on the metrics…

    That prediction of 400m users by end of 2012 is perfectly feasible based on the metrics as presented and the subsequent assumptions. Wonder what the numbers look like for active users, however that's defined – no mention/prediction. Reshared post from…