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Full story: The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #268: August 20, 2007
Content summary: Tom Keefe’s FIR photos; a special message to Radio TalentZoo listeners; Les Potter’s out of hospital; Alice Marshall’s comment explained; discussion on The Question of The Week from FIR #265: how to address employees profiting from their blogging; Sallie Goetsch reports; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; the big Skype outage: time for effective communication; Mattel in product recall crisis does a CEO video; listeners’ comments discussion; interview with Mark Ragan posted; the music; and more. [Messages from…
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Full story: Skype outage and restoring confidence
Even if you aren’t a user of Skype, the internet telephone service, you probably won’t have missed seeing or hearing about the total service outage during Thursday and Friday last week. Service came back up over the weekend and today things seem very much back to normal. Clearly for the average 6-9 million or so individuals and businesses typically using Skype at any one time (including me), it was a major problem suddenly being cut off from your telephone and…
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Full story: FIR Interview – Mark Ragan, CEO, Ragan Communications: August 19, 2007
This interview with Mark Ragan, CEO of Lawrence Ragan Communications, Inc., was conducted on June 7, 2007, at the Ragan/Simply Communicate “Engagement and Social Media” conference in London. Mark asked us to hold the interview when he learned that the launch of MyRaganTV.com would be delayed. We are pleased to present the interview now that MyRaganTV.com has been online for several weeks. Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz spoke to Mark Ragan, about MyRagan.com, MyRaganTV, and Ragan’s future plans. About our…
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Full story: Understanding OpenID is not easy
Last year, I signed up to get an OpenID. I didn’t fully understand what it could do but I did believe that it would become more important, not to mention useful, to have a means by which you could identify yourself with a trusted common ID on websites where normally you’d have to separately register each time with a user name and password. I did understand the de-centralized aspect of it all where you’d choose from a selection of organizations who…











