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Full story: The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #263: August 2, 2007
Content summary: Vote for FIR at Podcast Alley and in the Podcast Awards 2007; FIR Interview iMeme conference podcast is posted; Rob Cottingham’s cartoons; update on podcasting book availability with Tony Molloy’s story and McGraw-Hill to the rescue; Dan York reports from the road in Florida; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; BBC puts flood […]
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Full story: YouSendIt delivers with desktop application
For sending large files to people, email usually isn’t the best means. In some companies, there are limits to the size of file attachments that make it through corporate firewalls. Some block attachments of certain file types altogether. In any case, sending big files via email just adds to overall email bloat and, especially if […]
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Full story: The bad taste of Virgin Atlantic
Today, British Airways was fined £270 million for colluding in a price fixing arrangement with rival airline Virgin Atlantic. This is the culmination of a sorry tale of greed and illegal practice that led to the departure of BA’s communications and commercial directors when this all came to light in mid 2006. British Airways CEO […]
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Full story: FIR Interview – Sallie Goetsch at iMeme Conference: July 31, 2007
Our correspondent Sallie Goetsch (rhymes with “sketch”) attended the Fortune magazine iMeme conference on July 12-13 in San Francisco and recorded a series of interviews. Sallie’s interviewees included the following: Sam Whitmore, Sam Whitmore MediaEva Chen, Trend MicroPaul Plushckell, SpigitKeith Ferrazzi, author of Never Eat AloneEsther Dyson, EDventure, Release 0.9David Kirkpatrick, Fortune magazine Conference videos […]
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Full story: Sun Microsystems lowers the bar on financial communication
Yesterday, Sun Microsystems reported their financial results for 2007. A routine communication activity for a publicly-listed company, with a press release, earnings call and presentation for the financial community, employee communication, interviews with journalists, conversations with shareholders, etc. Most definitely not routine was the way they did it by making their public announcements on their […]