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Full story: The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #248: June 11, 2007
Content summary: Shel’s on his own today; Neville’s in Belgium; Media Monitoring Minute; follow-up on PR agency effort to recruit social media consultants; Lee Hopkins’ Report; One-Minute News: NBC releases widgets, Apple fans post iPhone commercials to YouTube, McDonalds takes a risk with mommy bloggers, revisiting the London 2012 Olympics logo fiasco, HP’s Eric Kintz answers B.L. Ochman’s question about hidden corporate blogs, 17 marketing uses for Twitter; Dan York’s report; the PR Store opens; listener comments; the music; and…
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Full story: On the road in Belgium and Holland
Heading off to Brussels for the European Communication Summit. The two-day event began today but calendar conflicts mean I can’t get there until later today. Speaking tomorrow on the final panel of the conference. On Tuesday night, I’ll be in The Hague for a client meeting on Wednesday. I’m driving there and back. It’s one of the few opportunities to simply enjoy a good drive. I have my trusty TomTom Go 710 so I’m fully confident I won’t go astray anywhere.…
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Full story: Grin and bear it with Vodafone roaming costs
During the coming week, I’m travelling in Belgium and The Netherlands. First stop is speaking at the European Communication Summit in Brussels followed by a client meeting in The Hague. Just checking on a few things as part of my trip preparation, I looked at Vodafone’s data access costs in Belgium and The Netherlands. Get this: They’re going to charge me £10 per megabyte for accessing the web (what they call ‘non Vodafone Live pages’)! That’s the equivalent of $20…
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Full story: The M&S iSuit (don’t let Apple know you call it that)
Marks and Spencer has a long-standing reputation for making good clothes at affordable prices. Men’s suits, for instance. I have one of their sharp Italian-design suits that I bought in 1999. I don’t wear suits that often, perhaps one reason why its still looks good and has lasted so long. Best of all, it still fits! Now M&S has a next-generation suit, what the Daily Mail has dubbed the iSuit. According to the Mail on Friday, the Marks & Spencer…











