Category: Communication

  • FIR Interview – Max Kalehoff, Neilsen Buzzmetrics: July 11, 2006

    In this edition of For Immediate Release podcast interviews, Neville and Shel enjoyed a 37-minute conversation with Max Kalehoff, Vice President of Marketing at Neilsen Buzzmetrics, a company which tracks, analyzes and measures online consumer-generated media and word of mouth. Our…

  • Speedo starts podcasting

    Speedo, the world leader in swimwear, has just started podcasting. The first episode of “Speedo Make Waves” is out now and features a conversation with Michael Phelps, the US champion swimmer who won eight medals at the 2004 Olympics in…

  • The difficulty for politicians of normal, real and authentic

    In his keynote address at the Gnomedex tech conference in Seattle on Friday, US senator and highly-seasoned politician John Edwards had this to say about politicans’ polish in an age of informality: […] “The problem is that we’re so trained…

  • Perplexing Blair op-ed piece in Guardian blog

    Here’s a good example of an eye-catching headline: Tony Blair starts blogging… This title of a post on Simon Collister’s eDemocracy Update blog certainly grabbed my attention as I scanned the headlines in my RSS reader. The reality is different,…

  • Close encounters in Second Life

    I had a blast last night meeting up with some FIR listeners in Second Life. I’d mentioned in Monday’s show that I would be hanging out at the FIR store at 4pm GMT yesterday. So I did and bumped into…