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Full story: Survey: What do you think of FIR?
[Update May 6: The survey closed on May 1 and the preliminary results have been published today – see The influence of the global FIR community and downloadable presentation from Slideshare.] Three years ago, in April 2006, we conducted our first listener survey in order to help us understand more about our listeners and the kinds of things they like (and dislike) about our podcast. That survey gave us a great deal of useful information at the time that helped…
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Full story: The tipping point for UK political blogs
Although I’ve largely been offline over the Easter weekend – meaning, not using Twitter or much RSS reading – I have been following developments in the extraordinary tale of No 10’s (former) communication strategist Damian McBride’s emails to LabourList blogger Derek Draper in January. In concise summary, those emails were to do with ideas for smearing Conservative Party politicians with scandal stories about their private lives. The right-wing News of The World has the gory details which the newspaper published…
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Full story: Powerful imagery at Easter
This Good Friday is an apt day on which to think about death and destruction. Rather, avoiding death and destruction in a world without nuclear weapons, a call to action made by Barack Obama in Prague last week. The Economist has a powerful cover in this week’s edition, portraying the words of the US president as a mushroom cloud, a shape that will be familiar to people of a certain age who remember the Cold War. While we no longer…
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Full story: The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #438: April 9, 2009
Content summary: Win free entry to Next09 in FIR Listener Contest; follow-up discussion: Robert Scoble on PR and Shel’s blog post response; Dan York reports on Seesmic Desktop, TweetDeck, Twitter plugins for WordPress, the AP and more; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: new studies on networking and the workplace, Boeing to teach employees how to use Google; listeners’ comments discussion and FIR Friendfeed Room round-up; music from Mano Reza; and more. Get FIR: Download the MP3…
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