Author: Neville Hobson

  • My Blackberry is not working

    Harry Enfield and Ronnie Corbett – two veterans of British comedy – show how they’re still at the top of their game. Excellent parody of today’s tech brands. More sketches at The One Ronnie.

  • YouTube’s water cooler for web video

    If visual information can improve understanding of spoken words as much as sixfold according to research, it shouldn’t be a surprise that use of video as a means to communicate an idea or aid learning is shooting through the roof.…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #578: December 20, 2010

    Content summary: Six years ago, we did our first FIR recording; FIR Live on Deepwater Horizon communications is posted; a question for listeners: should we keep doing FIR Live?; no report this week from Michael Netzley in Singapore; FIR Friendfeed…

  • Sanofi-Aventis employees really up in the air

    Did you see Up in the Air, the 2009 comedy-drama starring George Clooney who plays a corporate downsizer who travels around America doing layoff interviews? He delivered wholesale bad news face-to-face on behalf of companies unwilling to do it themselves…

  • Chaos theory

    All this weekend, I’ve been experiencing an increasing sense of disbelief when watching TV news reports of the utter chaos in the UK transportation network as a consequence of the severe weather conditions the country has been enduring. Last night,…