Author: Neville Hobson

  • Upgrading to latest WordPress

    If you visit this site during the next few hours, you will encounter some odd things, both in appearance and functionality, as I upgrade the site to the latest WordPress version 2.1.1. At the same time, I’ll be upgrading the…

  • DreamHost outage: Keeping the faith

    If you tried to visit here during much of today, Sunday, you would have been out of luck. My hosting service, DreamHost, had a planned total power outage overnight Saturday/Sunday which resulted in every hosted website plus email being completely…

  • RSS: The increasing influence of Google Reader

    Earlier this month, I wrote about the increasing number of subscribers to this blog’s RSS feed with numbers exceeding 1,000 for the first time. Since that post, I’ve been reading quite a bit of commentary on the overall impact Google…

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #217: February 22, 2007

    Content summary: Come to the New Communications Forum next month; Dan York clarifies identity versus authentication with OpenID; Skype 3.1 beta, SkypeFind and Skype Pro upgrade; CIPR publishes social media guidelines; getting teams to use wikis; Google launches hosted business…

  • CIPR publishes social media guidelines

    Last November, the UK’s Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) issued a call to action to the PR community inviting comment on a discussion paper about the opportunities and risks social media present in public relations practice. The CIPR’s plan…