Category: Professional Development

  • Google just disrupted the conference business with Hangouts On Air

    If you organize conferences and similar events, your future in terms of how you organize and price your events just got really interesting. If you’re a conference-goer, events that might be out of reach to you for reasons of distance…

  • Talking about the big online picture on June 25

    A week today, I’ll be spending an evening in Bath, the ancient city in Somerset in southwest England and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Bath is well known for two things in particular – the Roman Baths dating from the…

  • FIR Live #24: Hangout-On-Air panel discussion on influencer marketing

    Our first FIR Live broadcast on the web in real time via YouTube took place on Saturday June 16 to address the topic of influencer marketing. FIR hosts Shel Holtz and Neville Hobson led a discussion with an all-star panel…

  • Talking up Google+ Hangouts live

    I took part in my first Google+ Hangout On Air yesterday, participating in a breakfast meeting of the appropriately-named Houston Social Media Breakfast, organized by Kami Huyse, as a guest speaker. You can watch the 42-minute recording of the session…

  • Add your voice to the PR and Wikipedia conversation

    Here’s a plea to PR practitioners this Jubilee Bank Holiday Monday and Tuesday – give just 15 minutes of your time in contributing your thoughts to the online discussion about public relations and Wikipedia being spearheaded by the CIPR and…