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Full story: The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #241: May 17, 2007
Content summary: The Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; why managers need to engage with grumpy employees; study: consumers trust social media more than corporate sites; BASF starts public podcasting in English and German; PR News survey says video is underutilized; Terry Fallis finishes ‘The Best Laid Plans’; Pew study: closing the digital divide; discussion: what threats do disruptive new communities for communicators like MyRagan.com present to traditional association models such as IABC, PRSA, CIPR?; Dan York reports; listeners’ comments discussion;…
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Full story: Check the facts or scoop the consequences
Those who think blogs are dangerous and bloggers are people who only set out to destroy reputations will love this story. Just before midday NY time yesterday, gadget blog Engadget posted that Apple’s iPhone would be delayed until October and the new Leopard operating system for Macintosh computers delayed until January 2008. You can see stock market reaction to that news in the Google Finance graph here – Apple’s share price plummeted, immediately wiping $4 billion of the firm’s market…
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Full story: Understanding climate change and what to do about it
Climate change is a hot topic much in the news these days with increasing messages from our governments telling us we need to act now to save the planet. We’re hearing new phrases like ‘carbon neutrality,’ ‘carbon footprint,’ ‘personal CO2 emissions’ and ‘climate forcings’ along with old favourites like ‘greenhouse gas’ and ‘ozone depletion.’ Does anyone really understand all this? Is anyone able to relate it to their personal circumstances, ie, do something that will make a difference? I’ll come…
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Full story: WordPress 2.2 released
A few weeks late but it’s now available – version 2.2 of the WordPress blog platform. This version includes many new features and over two hundred bug fixes. If you’re running any previous version, the time is now to upgrade. I’m still running version 2.0.10 which will continue to be supported by the developers. But some of the cool things you can do, as well as some of the new plugins available (notably WordPress stats), require version 2.1 or higher.…
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