Author: Neville Hobson

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #402: December 1, 2008

    Content summary: Happy birthday Lee Hopkins!; FIR #401 and feeds; Neville reviews the Barcelona conference; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Michael Netzley reports from Singapore; discussion: vision statements; News That Fits – social fundraising, why banks won’t do social…

  • Social media takeaways from Barcelona

    Barcelona in late November: a colder place than I expected it to be when I arrived last Wednesday, my first visit since 2006 to this Spanish city on the Mediterranean coast. The climate might have been cold but the buzz…

  • Getting to know the iPhone 3G

    Regular readers of this blog know that I love gadgets especially mobile devices. Over the past few years, I’ve had great enjoyment from a wide range of devices – ones I’ve either purchased myself or which have been given or…

  • Contemporary suits Ferrero

    One of the people I encountered in Barcelona during this past week, where I chaired the New Media in Marketing and Communications Strategy conference (about which a post soon), was Guillaume du Gardier, pictured in a photo I took on…

  • Has a tipping point arrived for Twitter?

    A lot of people have being doing a lot of writing about Twitter during the past week. I’m not referring specifically to the awful events in Mumbai, India, where Twitter played a significant role in rapidly connecting online people with…