Author: Neville Hobson

  • Defining employee engagement

    Does anyone agree what employee engagement is? asks David Ferrabee. It’s a very good question. ‘Employee engagement’ is a phrase that appears frequently in media articles and blogs, yet it seems to me that people tend to use the phrase…

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #233: April 19, 2007

    Content summary: Shel on The Engaging Brand; CustomScoop’s new promo spots; Neville on organizational culture; Dan York’s report; Neville on website measurement; Sallie Goetsch’s report; listener comments; the music; and more. [Message from our sponsor: Save time with the CustomScoop…

  • Speaking at the IRS conference

    About to head in to central London for the Investor Relations Society 2007 conference. I’ll be joining a panel to address a topic interestingly-described as “Technological download – Multimedia, XBRL, blogging and the like.” As my session is at about…

  • The silence of the Blackberry

    The Blackberry outage that left North American users of the ubiquitous wireless handheld email device in the dark for much of Wednesday didn’t prevent plenty of people communicating. Communicating about the loss of service, that is, via blog posts, Twitter,…

  • PR unspun

    How is the PR industry adapting now that social media is heading for mainstream adoption? That’s a good introductory description to an event I’m speaking at in central London in the evening of Tuesday April 24. The event is ‘PR…