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Full story: FIR Interview: Rhonda Bennetto, TVI Pacific
A topic that’s often discussed on FIR The Hobson and Holtz Report concerning investor relations is the mix of online communication and social media: how does it work for publicly-listed companies with regulatory oversight? We hear too often how companies can’t embrace such a mix – a toxic mix, as some view it – precisely because of regulators and a belief in what you can’t do. In this FIR Interview, we hear a story that spells out very clearly what…
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Full story: Wikio top 30 UK tech blogs for May 2010 [Corrected List]
[Update May 6:] Not long after I published the Wikio Top 30 UK tech blogs list for May 2010 in this blog post, Wikio released a corrected list, this time with 40 blogs. I don’t have details on what went wrong with Wikio’s data in the the first list which showed changes only with two blogs: 28 blogs showed no change in rank from the previous month (here’s a screenshot of the originally-posted list). Delayed a couple of days by…
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Full story: The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #545: May 3, 2010
Content summary: The New PR wiki is back; new FIR Interview coming; What’s Up? the new Inside PR podcast, the UK election campaign is too analogue, iPad limits and Apple the new big brother; listener comments; News That Fits: how Levi’s has integrated Facebook into its site, a look at BP’s communication in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill crisis, Dan York reports on ‘7ducattacks’ and more, the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop, study shows lines blurring between PR and…
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Full story: The analogue election of 2010
Reflecting on what may happen on May 6 when the country goes to the polls, I got thinking about communication. It’s clear to me that all the political parties in my constituency, Wokingham, who are contesting the election on May 6 – both the parliamentary election as well as for local council seats – are decidedly analogue when it comes to communicating with voters. This image is a representation of the mountain of printed material that’s come through my letterbox…











