Author: Neville Hobson

  • Listen to PR Unspun

    Last week in London, I was on a panel to discuss a broad and thorny question: How is the PR industry adapting now that social media is heading for mainstream adoption? The event was PR Unspun, organized by Chinwag Live.…

  • Ragan launches social network for communicators

    A phoned-in comment to yesterday’s FIR podcast from PR podcaster Bryan Person brought news of a new social network for communicators launched by Chicago-based Lawrence Ragan Communications. MyRagan.com quietly opened for business a few days ago. So quiet, in fact,…

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #237: May 3, 2007

    Content summary: Vote for FIR at Podcast Alley; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Digg tries to stifle community freedom, and fails; BlogPhiladelphia; Second Life community pressures Linden Lab with Project Open Letter; Katie Paine’s social media measurement white paper;…

  • Things that keep communicators up at night

    If I were on the corporate, PR and/or internal communication teams involved in any of these current business situations, I’d undoubtedly be burning candles at all ends: As soon as Barclays Bank’s bid for ABN Amro Bank looked likely to…

  • Second Life community calls Linden Lab to action

    One question I often get asked when discussing Second Life from the business perspective is a tricky one: why do companies in Second Life put up with an environment where the infrastructure is continuously flaky? By ‘flaky,’ the meaning is…