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Full story: The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #235: April 26, 2007
Content summary: Luke Armour’s virtual PR murder mystery; Shel’s Toronto experiences; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; CIPR asks if PR qualifications are a necessity; are we taking too narrow a view about social media?; Gartner predicts 80% of internet users will use virtual worlds; voice coming to Second Life; Blue Cross pet charity launches petcasts; Dan York reports on landscaping, Ustream and podcast download statistics; Eric Schwartzman interviews Jeanette Gibson, Cisco Systems; listeners’ comments discussion; upcoming Ragan conference in…
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Full story: IABC brings professional development opportunities to China
As a long-time member of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) with a strong belief in the value of connecting communicators on a global basis, I was very interested to learn that IABC has partnered with the Shanghai Public Relations Association (SPRA) to bring IABC’s accreditation programme to China. In a press release yesterday, IABC said: […] Leaders of both associations signed an agreement today in which IABC will conduct a formal accreditation completion program with members of SPRA…
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Full story: The return of TechCrunch UK
So TechCrunch UK is planning to relaunch on June 1. Part of the prep is hiring a new editor. The big TechCrunch falling-out was a lively story in the blogosphere late last year when Michael Arrington shut down the UK site. In the four months since then, former TechCrunch UK editor Sam Sethi and co-editor Mike Butcher have moved on, filling the gap with their own sites focusing on tech start-ups, among other things. While it will be good to…











