Author: Neville Hobson

  • The percolating effect of the Davos Conversation

    The 2008 meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, wraps up today. One of the most interesting aspects of the meeting has been The Davos Question, the YouTube channel where a single question was posed: What one thing…

  • Politics is such a load of blah

    I don’t write about politics in this blog even though it has a category/tag called Politics. Yet I’m becoming increasingly tempted to do so because there has been so much going on in just the past six months that prompts…

  • Social media and PR from the digital immigrant perspective

    Over the next few months, I’m leading a couple of half-day workshops for the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) as part of their CIPR Masterclass training programme. The first of these takes place on February 26 at the CIPR’s…

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #313: January 24, 2008

    Content summary: FIR Listener Contest closes Jan 25; FIR live on BlogTalk Radio Feb 9; Shel travels; Neville speaking today at Bulldog Reporter audio conference; Dan York reports on data portability, OpenID, and more; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop;…

  • Customer service DreamHost style

    Last week’s billing mistake by server hosting company DreamHost caused a lot of grief to a lot of people. Every customer, it seems. I’m one of those customers and I was hit for the double billing which saw $340 unexpectedly…