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Full story: PayPal and SMS: a reassuring combination
I bought my early-bird ticket for Reading Twestival this morning, paying for it via PayPal. The simple purchase transaction I completed in a couple of minutes reminded me how much I place trust in PayPal, partly because of its neat one-time code by SMS message security procedure – what it calls its SMS Security Key – that I find reassuring. I’ve been using this system for most of this year. I find it convenient and easy: what gadget are you…
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Full story: Absence makes the heart grow fonder
I haven’t seen or heard much about the Climate Camp environmental get-together that’s been taking place in south London since last week. Spotting this tweet from the Metropolitan Police over the weekend saying that their mobile police station is closed as there’s no demand for it made me curious to see what was actually going on. After all the fanfare last week, I would have expected to have seen some TV coverage on at least one of the days. Maybe…
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Full story: The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #479: August 31, 2009
Content summary: FIR Interview with Chris Brogan posted; FIR Interview coming with Brian Solis and Deirdre Breakenridge, and another one in the works with Mitch Joel; SNCR Awards deadline is Sept 7; MyChingo/MobaTalk is no more; IABC Cafe2Go interview with Roger D’Aprix posted; Shel re-starts StopBlocking.org; Michael Netzley interviews documentary film maker and educator Tan Siok Siok in Beijing about Twittamentary; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: Kim Kardashian PR reality show, regulating Twitter at the US…
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Full story: PR Boo #3
Three great items this week: Dave Fleet’s advice for entry-level PR professionals (which I reckon applies to every-level PR professionals); Shel Holtz and firing up StopBlocking.org; and Dave Jones’ report on his colleague Niall Cook updating Hill & Knowlton’s social media guidelines. Listen! Links to the blog posts I talked about: 14 Key Skills & Attributes For New Public Relations Professionals – Dave Fleet Revitalizing StopBlocking.org – Shel Holtz Have your say on H&K’s social media guidelines – Dave Jones…
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