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Full story: Enterprise Twitter heats up with Present.ly
Last week, Yammer grabbed everyone’s attention as the Twitter-like tool to use behind the corporate firewall, where employees can enjoy the benefits of the informal and quick-fire interactions between people that characterize Twitter but in relative privacy. I tried it out and think it’s pretty cool, as do quite a few other people (and others still were skeptical). Now comes Present.ly, launched today at the Web 2.0 Expo in New York. I’ve signed up to give it a try. Here’s…
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Full story: The real problem with political leadership
I was reading a rather good political commentary in The Guardian yesterday (spotted via a David Brain tweet) by Danny Rogers, the editor of PR Week UK, in which he laments the lack of strategic communication counsel at 10 Downing Street. In his concluding remarks, he says: […] A former Labour party adviser, now a PR consultant, says: "There is a feeling that the [political] strategy again lacks boldness. It only contributes to an image of administration paralysed by fear,…
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Full story: The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #380: September 15, 2008
Content summary: Shel’s in Austin; FIR listener contest coming with two great prizes; next FIR Live on Blogtalk Radio on Sept 20; discussion: trackbacks and comments; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits – diverse opinion about Yammer, copyright needs a standard tagging system says Dow Jones, Pew report on cloud computing, developing a personal social media policy, Twittering a funeral; listeners’ comments discussion; news about Thursday’s show; music from Cretin 66; and more. Listen to FIR now:…
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Full story: Easy collaboration with Dropbox
I’m a big fan of Live Mesh, the service from Microsoft that is a great productivity tool when working with colleagues and clients in different locations, where you can synchronize different devices used by different people to share files. I’m also starting to be a big fan of Dropbox, a new collaborative document sharing service that’s just come out of private beta which I signed up for a few days ago. It’s so simple and easy to use that I…











