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SDF Podcast 17 – “Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it”

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6 April 2018

The SmallDataForum convened in late March, and as for our big story, we had several candidates and angles on the same theme of the use and abuse of data. This episode’s show notes were written by Thomas Stoeckle. Sam is now a newly published author of a book about how to tell powerful and purposeful stories with data, Narrative by Numbers. A very timely (and equally timeless) topic and title. A recently published study in Science about the velocity and…
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Business, Communication, FIR Podcast Network, Public Relations, Reputation, Social Media, Social Networks, Society, Software, Technology, The Hobson & Holtz Report, Web

For Immediate Release 130: Facebook’s Moments of Truth

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27 March 2018

In this monthly episode of The Hobson & Holtz Report aka FIR 130, the major discussion surrounded Facebook and the growing crisis embroiling the social network over alleged misuse of data about users and their friends by the political consultancy and data mining firm Cambridge Analytica. Shel and I offered a plethora of opinion and considered some of the elements of this kerfuffle from a communicator’s perspective. Other stories that made the discussion list in this episode included how Twitter…
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Business, Communication, Ethics, Investor Relations, Public Relations, Reputation, Social Media, Social Networks, Society, Software, Technology, Web

What next for Facebook?

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25 March 2018

Even if you’re not interested in nor a user of Facebook, you’d have been hard pressed indeed to have avoided the blaze of publicity about the social networking site every day this past week. That blaze has been white hot in its ferocity and intensity on alleged wrong-doing by the American firm, and by a British political consulting and data mining company called Cambridge Analytica, over the mishandling of data related to more than 50 million users that allegedly played…
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Artificial Intelligence, Business, Communication, FIR Podcast Network, Marketing, Public Relations, Reputation, Social Media, Technology, The Hobson & Holtz Report, Trends, Web, Workplace

For Immediate Release 126:
Is KFC FCK’d?

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27 February 2018

Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz get together for the February instalment of “The Hobson & Holtz Report” aka For Immediate Release episode 126. The big topic in this episode is the plight of KFC in the UK and Ireland where the fast-food restaurant chain has been without its core ingredient – chicken – for weeks as it is embroiled in a crisis that has seen more than half its restaurants in the two countries closed. Two weeks on with the…
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Is KFC FCK’d?
Communication, Marketing, Mobile, Online Media, Public Relations, Social Business, Software, Web

How to be a magazine publisher with Flipboard

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Neville Hobson

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26 February 2018

In the summer of 2010, a new visual way of consuming news stories was launched for iOS mobile devices – especially the iPad which had been released a few months earlier – in the form of Flipboard, an aggregator app that brought together content from social media, news feeds, photo sharing sites and other websites, and presented it in magazine format. This highly-appealing visual communication tool became popular very quickly on iPads and iPhones, enabling users to “flip” through the…
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