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  • Communication, Ethics, Mainstream Media, Online Media, Reputation, Social Media, Web

    With social media, there are no editors

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    Neville Hobson

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    16 August 2010

    The Dry Erase / Whiteboard Girl hoax – the story of the girl who supposedly quit her job and explained it all in a series of 33 photos of text she wrote on a whiteboard – makes me think of trust, as in: how do you know what you read online, never mind in print, is true or not? The answer is that you don’t. Not really, no matter the source and how much you’ve come to trust in that…

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  • Business, Communication, Technology

    Ten topics from a good week

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    Neville Hobson

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    15 August 2010

    There’s a distinctly autumnal look and feel to things this chilly Sunday morning as I sit at the desk in my home office with a second cup of tea of the day and my RSS reader, the digital equivalent of reading through the daily newspapers. I’m also listening to FIR Live #18, the episode Shel and I did last night that is a terrific conversation among a group of pretty knowledgeable people who talked about the wisdom or otherwise of…

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    FIR Live #18 – August 14, 2010: Web pages or Facebook?

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    Neville Hobson

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    15 August 2010

    Content Summary: A panel of social media veterans discuss whether Facebook is a viable alternative for traditional websites and where Facebook fits into the branding and marketing mix. Discussion participants were FIR co-hosts Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz, and our panellists: Steve Rubel, Senior VP and Director of Insights, Edelman Digital, who wrote about the trend in his March column for Forbes.com. Scott Monty, head of social media at Ford Motor Company, which used traditional advertising to drive consumers to…

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  • Business, Communication, Ethics, Public Relations, Reputation

    Discuss perspectives on CSR with ExxonMobil

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    Neville Hobson

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    12 August 2010

    Can oil companies be socially responsible? asks Ken Cohen, vice president of public and government affairs at US oil giant ExxonMobil in a post on the company’s Perspectives blog. Cohen says his question is prompted by an article in Ethical Corporation magazine entitled “Beyond petroleum: Why the CSR community collaborated in creating the BP oil disaster” , referencing the Deepwater Horizon oil-spill catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico in April. Cohen writes: […] The oil and gas industry’s primary social…

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  • Communication, Marketing, Social Media, Social Networks, Society, Trends, Twitter, Web

    Measure your fame in tweets and likes

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    Neville Hobson

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    11 August 2010

    You have to wonder who really would be taken in by the story of a girl who quit her job very publicly in a series of 33 photos that, via text on a whiteboard, tell the story of why she quit and what she thinks of her boss. I was when I saw it yesterday (although I did have the tiniest “this looks too good to be true…” thought). But maybe we want to believe a story like this. It’s…

    Full story: Measure your fame in tweets and likes
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