Category: Experiences

  • Experiencing the Apple Store

    On a shopping trip with my wife yesterday to Westfield in west London, we visited the Apple Store there. Everyone visits shops. Some do it a lot. I know of no other retail experience quite like a visit to an…

  • A memorable Dublin experience

    Last week’s trip to Dublin was a terrific experience. The workshop on social media and public relations I ran for the Public Relations Institute of Ireland – formally known as ‘New Media for Seasoned Professionals’ – on Thursday was a…

  • Help Haiti via SMS donations

    Inspired by a report a few days ago in the New York Times on how making donations via text message on mobile phones in the US to support relief efforts in earthquake-devastated Haiti had raised over $2 million in donations,…

  • 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,…

  • Navigating sat navs, settled for a Navman

    One mobile device that ought to be added to any list of gadgets that epitomizes the Naughties (and there are lots of lists) is the portable satellite navigation device, or sat nav for short. I first used a portable sat…