Content summary: The new FIR iPhone app and a contest for free downloads; new FIR interviews posted; review of ‘Open Leadership’ book coming this week; listener comments and Friendfeed FIR Room round-up; 5 minutes on… Google Street View cars back on the road, social media phobia, Reader’s Digest launches part-free iPad app, the end of […]

The recent Uni-ball campaign in the US to give away 10,000 pens a day via Facebook launched a round of criticism of companies that concentrated efforts on Facebook to the detriment of their own websites. eConsultancy’s Patricia Robles wrote a post that listed five reasons companies should stay focused on their own sites. At Marketing […]

The United States Department of Defense (DoD) in February adopted a new policy toward staff access to social sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube and others. The policy, which covers everyone from Pentagon-based staff to soldiers in the field, calls for open access or, as stated on the Defense Department’s Social Media Hub: “…the […]

Content summary: It’s the first show of the month: please vote for FIR at Podcast Alley; new Speakers & Speeches and FIR Interview podcasts posted, more coming; introducing our new sponsor: Pollstream; listener comments and FIR FriendFeed Room round-up; 5 minutes on… Ann Taylor listens to its customers, Microsoft invention lets you insert batteries in […]