Category: Personal Development

  • Podcast: How to create disruptive strategies of innovation with Erik Wahl #IBMConnect

    Podcast: How to create disruptive strategies of innovation with Erik Wahl #IBMConnect

    Closing General Session at IBM Connect 2016: Discover Your Inner Artist: Wrap up your week on a fun and exciting note. Liz Urheim, Vice President of Collaboration and Smarter Workforce, will share her perspectives and summarize the week. She will then be…

  • Changing gears with IBM

    Changing gears with IBM

      I’ve been thinking a lot about social business lately. About what it is – broadly, focused on people (behaviours, mindsets) and organizations (culture, vision, leadership) – and about what it isn’t (an extension of, or level up from, social…

  • FIR is dead. Long live FIR!

    FIR is dead. Long live FIR!

    On September 7, I co-hosted and recorded the last episode of For Immediate Release: The Hobson and Holtz Report with my podcasting partner, Shel Holtz. It’s a ritual Shel and I have followed every week for the past ten years…

  • Marking eight years of Twitter

    I remember when I first started hearing about Twitter, in the summer of 2006 less than six months after the service started earlier that year. As the year progressed, the name kept popping up in blog posts and comments –…

  • Would you be happier without Facebook?

    If you were not happy – outraged, even – with how Facebook behaved over the mood experiment they conducted last month, an experiment from a Dutch creative agency might be right up your street. What Facebook did was manipulate information…