November 28, 2016 archive

For Immediate Release #63: A Discounted Christmas Lobster

Jim Hawker, co-founder and owner of Threepipe, a London-based PR and digital marketing agency, and experience architect Andrea Vascellari weighed in on the following topics:

  • The reputations of the S&P 500 are worth nearly 44 trillion of shareholder value, more than $1 out of every $5
  • Speaking of reputation, Sony has filed a patent for a process to assess the reputation of journalists and their articles
  • British grocery upstart Lidl has gotten a lot of positive buzz for its “Social Price Drop” campaign
  • In a recent post, Brian Solis urged companies to go mobile-first
  • How should communicators react to the disruption social platforms are causing established media?
  • Dan York reports on data breaches, the imminent release of WordPress 4.7, the upcoming WordPress USA event, and an episode of the podcast 99% Invisible dealing with acoustics
  • Facebook blocked Admiral Insurance from accessing Facebook user data to make decisions about how much to charge for premiums
  • Diageo created an immersive VR video to experience a drunk-driving car crash from the first-person perspective
  • Brands and agencies are jumping on the Snapchat Spectacles bandwagon; is there something to it or are they just chasing the newest shiny object?

Connect with our panelists on Twitter at @JimJimHawker and @vascellari.

Links to the source material for this episode are on Contentle.

Special thanks to Jay Moonah for the opening and closing music.

About today’s panel:

jimhawkerJim Hawker is Co-Founder and Business Development Director of Threepipe, a PR and digital marketing agency of 70 people based in London. The agency runs campaigns across PR, SEO and paid media for clients across business, consumer, sports and entertainment sectors. Jim has 20 years’ experience working both in house and agency side in both the UK and US. In his spare time he is a big sports fan as well as an avid reader of Sherlock Holmes (hence the connection to the Threepipe name).

Andrea Vascellari, host of FIR on StrategyAndrea Vascellari is an Experience Architect. He works at the intersection of digital transformation and experience design to help organizations develop their communications strategies. Andrea is an award-winning communications professional with over 15 years of professional experience and a deep understanding of marketing and communications, including public and media relations. He worked as Director of Digital and Content at WPP, world leader in advertising and marketing services, as Digital Planner at the leading global communications marketing firm Edelman, and as CEO of Itive an international digital strategy agency he founded with offices in Finland and New York.

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CyberMonday 2016: Save 50% on ebook of "Seven Deadliest Unified Communications Attacks"

Cybermonday2016 7ducattacks 700px Today on CyberMonday you can buy “Seven Deadliest Unified Communications Attacks” and hundreds of other ebooks and videos from O’Reilly and associated publishers at a discount of 50% off or more. Simply go to:
http://oreil.ly/CyberMonday16
and start shopping. All you do is enter “CYBER16” as the promotion code when checking out.  The deal expires on Tuesday, November 29, 2016 at 05:00 US Pacific Time. Do note that this sale is for ebooks and not for the print versions of the books or for print/ebook bundles. You can also go directly to the book’s page at O’Reilly and add it to your cart using that page.

Although the book was written back in 2010, it is sadly still VERY relevant to the Voice-over-IP (VoIP) systems deployed today. I would have loved it if vendors would have made systems so much more secure that this book could be forgotten about... but the security concerns have only increased in the time since the publication. Even six years later it still offers relevant advice and suggestions about how to make sure your IP communication systems are as secure as possible.

I am a big fan of buying ebooks directly from O’Reilly because doing so gets you:

  • DRM-free – no stupidity with license restrictions.
  • Free lifetime access
  • Multiple formats (ex. ePUB, PDF, Kindle, etc.)
  • Free updates
  • Sync with Dropbox, Google Drive and other similar services
… and more! FYI, I recorded a short podcast episode about this sale: P.S. My “Migrating Applications to IPv6” book is also on sale as an ebook at O’Reilly’s site… if you are interested in how to make sure your applications can work over IPv6, please do check that book out, too.

CyberMonday 2016: Save 50% on “Migrating Apps to IPv6” ebook

Cyber Monday 2016 sale

Today you can buy “Migrating Applications to IPv6” and hundreds of other ebooks and videos from O’Reilly and associated publishers at a discount of 50% off or more. Simply go to:

http://oreil.ly/CyberMonday16

and start shopping. All you do is enter “CYBER16” as the promotion code when checking out.  The deal expires on Tuesday, November 29, 2016 at 05:00 US Pacific Time. Do note that this sale is for ebooks and not for the print versions of the books or for print/ebook bundles.

You can also go directly to the book’s page at O’Reilly at:

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920020974.do

IPv6 deployment continues to grow fast – and new Internet standards may increasingly be focused on IPv6 – so the time is definitely here to make sure that your applications and networks are ready for the IPv6 Internet!

As I’ve mentioned in the past, buying direct from O’Reilly offers multiple excellent benefits, including:

  • DRM-free – no stupidity with license restrictions.
  • Free lifetime access
  • Multiple formats (ex. ePUB, PDF, Kindle, etc.)
  • Free updates
  • Sync with Dropbox, Google Drive and other similar services

… and more!

FYI, I recorded a short podcast episode about this sale:

P.S. My “Seven Deadliest Unified Communications Attacks” book is also on sale as an ebook at O’Reilly’s site… if you are interested in voice-over-IP (VoIP) security, please do check that book out, too.

TDYR 316 – Cyber Monday sale at O’Reilly offers 50% off all ebooks, including 2 of mine

Today is a great day to buy ebooks and videos at 50% from O'Reilly and associated publishers - http://oreil.ly/CyberMonday16 . Two of my books are included in the sale: http://migratingappstoipv6.com/ and http://www.7ducattacks.com/ - the sale goes until Tuesday, November 29, 2016 at 5:00am Pacific Time.