Author: Neville Hobson

  • Banning ‘coterminous stakeholder engagement’

    Any idea what that phrase means? It’s a good example of the type of jargon that you still encounter in much of the business world. But it’s not only the business world that’s awash with pompous words and phrases that…

  • FIR Live Call-In Episode: February 9, 2008

    Content summary: The live call-in episode on BlogTalk Radio. Our topic: the blurring line between internal and external communication. [Messages from our sponsors: FIR is brought to you with Lawrence Ragan Communications, serving communicators worldwide for 35 years, www.ragan.com; Save…

  • DreamHost loyalty stretching a bit thin

    I’d planned to do a bit of blog admin this morning including upgrading all my WordPress blogs to the latest version 2.3.3, released earlier this week. Plans scuppered, though, by a long service outage at DreamHost, the company I use…

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #317: February 7, 2008

    Content summary: Problems with voting at Podcast Alley; how to participate in Saturday’s FIR live on BlogTalkRadio; the FIR Listener Contest: announcing the winners; Dan York reports on Microsoft/Yahoo as well as AOL, Google’s social graph API, and more; the…

  • In the Daily Dog

    Last week, I had a terrific conversation with Brian Pittman, director of content for Bulldog Reporter and Bulldog Reporter’s PR University. We spent an hour discussing digital immigrants, mindset shifting in PR practice, challenges for communicators with social media, what’s…