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Full story: The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #334: April 7, 2008
Content summary: FIR Live on BlogTalk Radio April 19; SNCR survey; geek dinners this week in Cleveland and London; Eric Schwartzman interviews Josh Bernoff from Forrester Research, Eric Taub from The New York Times and Don Clark from The Wall Street Journal; Phorm: online behaviour tracking that looks illegal; Boeing’s public protest; blog and print build community for Flying Pickle; Kami Huyse and SeaWorld; ditching the resume/CV: will it work?; listeners’ comments discussion; news about next Thursday’s show; music from…
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Full story: What’s in a (domain) name?
Part of your online identity, for a start. Have you registered a domain in your own name? If not, have you checked whether someone else has? And if they have, do you know what they’re doing with your name? Naked Conversations author and FastCompany TV presenter Shel Israel knows what’s happened to his name which someone else snapped up to register as a domain. Now ShelIsrael.com is up there as a parody site. Uncomfortable though that site may be for…
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Full story: Evidence of Timberland’s social responsibility
Last week while on a guilt-free shopping trip, I bought a pair of Timberland loafers. Factory outlet pricing (about a third less than you’d normally pay), so I was quite pleased with my bargain. What intrigued me, though, was a large label on the box, pictured above, with information about the environmental and community impacts involved in manufacturing these shoes, with a link to Timberland’s corporate social responsibility reports on their website. This is the first time I’ve seen such…
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Full story: The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #333: April 3, 2008
Content summary: Dates for diaries: dinner in London with Mike Manuel and Josh Hallett, April 12; FIR Live on BlogTalk Radio, April 19; Dan York reports on WordPress 2.5, and more; the Media Monitoring Minute with Connie Reece and CustomScoop; labelling ‘social media’ as just ‘media’; ideas from Australia: two different approaches to using the web; social media and recruiting; Twitter and politics; 24 hours of intranet innovation online; Eric Schwartzman interviews BusinessWeek’s John Fine on mainstream media and the…











