Category: Communication

  • The PR agent as trusted counsellor and mentor

    Last week, the US edition of PR Week published its annual Editors’ Choice lists including Editors’ Choice 2010: Who to watch (subscription login required), a look at individuals and PR firms the magazine’s editors predict “will make headlines in 2010.”…

  • Controlling leaks Apple style

    There’s been quite a lot of buzz during the past week or so surrounding rumours that Apple will be launching a tablet device very soon, and the expectation that there’ll be an announcement by Apple on January 26. I wrote…

  • Apple’s tablet as the killer e-reader

    Ellee Seymour asked me if I’ve tried an e-reader yet, one of those gadgets that you use to read e-books. Something like a Sony Reader, perhaps, or an Amazon Kindle. I told Ellee that I hadn’t yet. I do read…

  • Stamps for collecting not for posting

    The Royal Mail has a terrific series of stamp designs it plans to release on January 7 that features the covers of some iconic British rock music albums over the last 40 years. The Classic Album Covers collection features album…

  • Marking five years as a podcaster

    Today, January 3, 2010, is rather a special day for Shel Holz and I as it marks the fifth anniversary of For Immediate Release: The Hobson and Holtz Report, the podcast we both started on January 3, 2005. To me,…