Author: Neville Hobson

  • You are the presentation

    PowerPoints are not your presentation, says Bert Decker in a post that gets across a point that anyone who ever needs to communicate with a group of people should bear in mind – you are the presentation and the PowerPoint…

  • Do I get a Dell, a Sony or something else?

    I’ve held out but I now have to face the inevitable – my venerable IBM T30 Thinkpad laptop just doesn’t deliver the goods any more and I have to replace it. It’s been a terrific computer during the past four…

  • The big ban on employees accessing Facebook

    Earlier this month, in FIR #254, Shel and I discussed quite an interesting story of what one company did regarding employee access to and use of Facebook. That story, of the law firm Allen and Overy’s Facebook U-turn, is a…

  • From cheating and lying to betterment

    One of the great things about RSS readers, and FeedDemon in particular, is how they enable you to see what’s going on in your areas of interest easily and quickly. So in the space of 20 minutes or so this…

  • Introducing FIR Cuts

    An opportunity to hear what you won’t hear in the Hobson and Holtz Report. Your “For Immediate Release” co-hosts go to great lengths to ensure the twice-weekly podcast comes in at around an hour; we know that most of our…