Category: Trends

  • A compelling future for digital business media

    In May, the Financial Times went on record to say with some confidence that they expect to see more paying subscribers to the paper’s digital edition by the end of 2012 than to its traditional printed newspaper. In a post…

  • Democratizing visual expression

    As someone who only recently discovered Instagram when the Android version of the popular iPhone app was released a few months ago, I’m a compulsive snapper at any moment that I can whip out my smartphone. The beauty of Instagram…

  • Actionable insights from Burson-Marsteller on the Global 100 and the social web

    If you were to guess which has been the preferred social channel of the top 100 global companies in the Fortune 500 list over the past three years, you’d be spot on if you said Twitter. That’s what research by…

  • What do you know about BPA and food packaging?

    If you’re a listener to the FIR: The Hobson & Holtz Report podcast that I present with my colleague Shel Holtz every Monday, you will have heard our report in this week’s episode on US food company Progresso, a subsidiary…

  • 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…