Author: Neville Hobson

  • FIR Interview – Forrester Research Analysts Rob Koplowitz and G. Oliver Young: Sept 21, 2007

    Forrester Research has issued two important studies for those interested in implementing Web 2.0 strategies for internal communication and knowledge purposes. G. Oliver Young, along with Eric G. Brown and April Lawson, authored “Passionage Employees: The Gateway to Enterprise Web…

  • Web 2.0 investing on the rise

    Venture-capital investment in Web 2.0 companies, generally ad-supported websites in fields like social networking or blogging, is showing signs of maturity, with more deals happening outside the Silicon Valley tech heartland. A Wall Street Journal report says: Investors directed $646.2…

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #277: September 20, 2007

    Content summary: Shel’s in Dallas, Neville’s at the Conference Board Europe meeting in Zurich, the Chatham House Rule, employee-generated media, Media Monitoring Minute, StopBlocking.org campaign, Dan York reports, David Phillips reports, listener comments, the music, and more. [Messages from our…

  • Adding to the first line of blog spam defence

    Yesterday, I installed an addition to the first line of defence against comment and trackback spam that Akismet is so successful at. That addition is reCAPTCHA, a plugin for WordPress (with versions for other platforms), that adds a step to…

  • Unblocking the net for employees

    One thing I’ve got to know well over the years about my podcasting partner Shel Holtz is his passionate views about internal communication, intranets and all manner of technology as it relates to organizations and communication. So it comes as…