Author: Neville Hobson

  • Five stories for the holiday weekend

    Ever since I started blogging back in 2002, I have always found RSS to be one of the most useful tech tools ever invented. RSS enables me, you, anyone, to automatically receive new or updated content from anywhere on the…

  • FIR Interview: Eric Groves on Constant Contact acquisition of NutShellMail

    Constant Contact, one of the better-known names in the commercial email business, recently announced the acquisition of NutShellMail, which aggregates social content and delivers it to your inbox. In this interview, FIR co-host Shel Holtz speaks with Eric Groves, Constant…

  • Will the iPad be your show-maker or your show-stopper?

    As the iPad formally launches today in the UK – as well as in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain and Switzerland – expect your TV news to be full of images of queues at Apple stores in all…

  • FIR Speakers and Speeches: Francesca Karpel on social media and employee engagement

    Content summary: Francesca Karpel, senior manager of Internal Communications at NetApp, delivered a breakout session at the 2010 New Communications Forum titled "How Social Media & Online Communities Strengthen Employee Engagement," April 23, 2010. From the NewComm Forum session description:…

  • Video presentations on B2B social media

    Yesterday’s DellB2b Social Media Huddle that took place at Microsoft’s London office – which has excellent facilities for this type of event including robust and reliable wifi – was highly worthwhile, according to much of the comment I heard from…