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Full story: FIR Cut: Gartner report on newspapers and social media
Overflow from FIR #434 on March 26, 2009. A report from Gartner Research suggests newspaper publishers haven’t leveraged social media in such a way that papers’ biggest fans are able to serve as brand ambassadors. You can’t tweet an article directly from the newspaper’s website, for instance. It’s easy to substitute “companies” and “businesses” for “newspaper publishers” when reading the report. Download this podcast (2.3Mb, 5:01) If you want to automatically receive FIR Cuts as they’re published, subscribe to the…
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Full story: The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #434: March 26, 2009
Content summary: More troubles with FIR downloads; Shel’s in Texas; Dan York reports on mobile trends and the death of family identity, Cluetrain 10 years on; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; follow-up discussion on Robert Scoble and PR is dead: listeners weigh in; News That Fits: Comcast’s Twitter team coaching Saleforce.com, there’s no avoiding news about Twitter as Gartner identifies four ways in which enterprises use Twitter; listeners’ comments discussion; music from David R. Merry; and more. Get FIR:…
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Full story: Disrupting mobile communications in the EU
With a title like this on the Europa website, there’s little doubting where Viviane Reding, the European Union’s Commissioner for Information Society and Media, stands on the thorny topic of forcing mobile operators to reduce the costs for mobile phone customers when using their phones in other EU countries and not on their home networks, known as roaming. Commissioner Reding is on a mission as this statement in her weekly video message (transcript) makes clear: I want all Europeans to…
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Full story: If Jane Fonda sees the point, so can you
Doing a little research on ghost writing and ghost blogging for a client assignment, I came upon a simple perspective by Jane Fonda. The legendary actress, who started writing her blog in January (she’s also now on Twitter), has a clear view about who writes content on her blog and why. […] I write my own blogs. Otherwise, I really don’t see the point. If I want to take people through the experience of doing a Broadway play after 46…
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Full story: I prefer Google Chrome
I spent some time last weekend doing some updating and general sorting out on my dad’s laptop, an IBM Thinkpad running Windows XP. Among the many updates I installed was Internet Explorer from version 7 to version 8. It’s pretty but, boy, is it slow to load and then use, especially compared to version 7 (which is pretty slow as well). My experience doesn’t match Microsoft’s claims of performance improvements. It’s slow compared to Firefox, too (and others are saying…
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