Category: Professional Development

  • FIR’s still a labour of love

    On May 23, my podcasting partner Shel Holtz and I marked a milestone number for our weekly business podcast For Immediate Release: The Hobson and Holtz Report, usually referred to simply as ‘FIR’ – episode number 600. Many of our…

  • Tips for being social at conferences

    A reality today at many conferences and other large-scale organized events is that attendees at those events are going to tweet, post photos, comment on walls and otherwise talk online about what they’re experiencing (or anything else that comes to…

  • Content worth getting in your inbox

    My desktop email client is Microsoft Outlook for Windows. In spite of the frustrations in many aspects of using it, I like it overall (it does much more than email). I’ve been using it for the best part of a…

  • The IABC sunshine conference

    I did like the "Hello, sunshine!" greeting on the promotional postcard mailing you see here that I received this week from IABC about the 2011 World Conference taking place in San Diego, USA, next month. In British usage, ‘hello sunshine’…

  • Understand more about social CRM

    Last Friday, I participated in Social CRM 2011, a one-day conference in London organized by Luke Brynley-Jones. The event attracted well over 100 participants who came to hear a range of excellent speakers and join in discussion over a topic…