Author: Neville Hobson

  • FIR Interview: Peter Shankman of Help A Reporter Out

    Help A Reporter Out (HARO) began as a group on Facebook and is now a dedicated website with rapidly growing momentum. People sign up to receive queries from reporters looking to interview experts or people with experience for their articles.…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #361: July 10, 2008

    Content summary: Two new FIR Interviews posted; discussion: did Molson make the right connections with their blogger outreach?; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Dan York reports on Calliflower and more; mentioning the new iPhone; News That Fits: Google launches…

  • The data roaming cost cushion from 3

    Mobile operator 3 has taken the extraordinary step of disabling the general capability of using its mobile broadband data service while roaming out of a user’s home network. If you’re a 3 customer with a 3 broadband dongle – the…

  • FIR Interview: Al Comeaux, SVP Corporate Communications, Sabre Holdings

    When it began its life as an independent company, employees of Sabre Holdings – the company that (among other things) provides flight information to consumers and travel agents – mostly worked in the same physical location, making it easy to…

  • What academics think about social media

    Find more videos like this on PROpenMic Two weeks have gone by since Edelman’s New Media Academic Summit 2008 in Chicago, plenty of time to digest some thinking and take a look at other people’s thoughts as they’ve posted them…