Author: Neville Hobson

  • An opportunity to learn

    I’m in Manchester today to take part in the seventh annual CIPR Northern Conference, a one-day event of professional development and networking opportunities for PR practitioners in the north-west of England. I’ll be leading a Masterclass session this afternoon that…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #381: September 18, 2008

    Content summary: Shel’s in Minneapolis; Neville’s traveling but web woes kept him from contributing items for today’s show; the live call-in show is this Saturday; David Phillips’ interview with Jane Rowe is up; Eric Schwartzman is hosting an online video…

  • FIR Interview: A Conversation with Jane Rowe

    By 1803, having already demonstrated his inventive nature by inventing a new kind of paper for cannon cartridges, John Dickinson started his company and designed and built a new machine capable of the continuous manufacture of paper to replace the…

  • Enterprise Twitter heats up with Present.ly

    Last week, Yammer grabbed everyone’s attention as the Twitter-like tool to use behind the corporate firewall, where employees can enjoy the benefits of the informal and quick-fire interactions between people that characterize Twitter but in relative privacy. I tried it…

  • The real problem with political leadership

    I was reading a rather good political commentary in The Guardian yesterday (spotted via a David Brain tweet) by Danny Rogers, the editor of PR Week UK, in which he laments the lack of strategic communication counsel at 10 Downing…