Aug 31

Hobson & Holtz #823: Do brands need Chief Narrative Officers?

Joe Thornley sits in as guest co-host. In this week’s episode: Facebook responds to suggestions that it benefits from copyright violations and introduces a new tool to help fight them; publisher performance on Instagram is through the roof; Instagram abandons the square-only photo and video requirement; GIFs.com adds some nifty features marketers will like; why ever brand could use a Chief Narrative Officer; the 1MDB scandal; listener comments; podcasting is on the upsurge (and a discussion about podcast networks); Chrome will start automatically pausing some Flash content starting on September 1; why people hate making phone calls; Slack is making privacy cool again; the end of the Internet dream; Augie Ray and Josh Bernoff face off on the death of social media marketing; and more.
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Aug 30

TDYR 262 – Returning To Regular Rhythms and Routines

Summer is over in the Northern Hemisphere and now we return to the regular rhythms and routines…

Aug 26

Congratulations to Uruguay on signing .UY with DNSSEC!

Last week Uruguay became the latest country to sign their country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) with DNSSEC!  With that change, the DNSSEC deployment map for the Latin American region gets just that much greener.  And now, everyone using a .UY domain will potentially be able to benefit from the increased security and trust provided by DNSSEC Read more…

Aug 24

Hashtag Support In Ello Helps Find Great Content

About three weeks ago, Ello added hashtag support and made it possible for people to find great content that is being posted on Ello. Paul Budnitz wrote about the launch (on Ello, of course) and included some examples (to which…

Aug 23

Hobson & Holtz Report #822: The case against impressions as a digital metric

Drones are taking off in the oil industry, the U.S. federal government partners with Yelp to get citizen reviews, personal photos at work: pictures that paint a thousand words; mobile messaging has come of age; the case against impressions as a digital metric; Dan York’s Tech Report; republishing older blog content: does it work?
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Aug 19

Voice of VOIPSA in “Top 24 VoIP Blogs on the Internet”

It was nice to see this blog included in a recent “Top 24 VoIP Blogs on the Internet” post put out by Commander, who appears to be a provider of VoIP equipment, services and more: http://blog.commander.com/top-24-voip-blogs-on-the-internet/ Obviously any list like this is very subjective but we do appreciate the mention, particularly given that the blogging […]

Aug 19

Video For All Those Parents Who Travel: "While I Was Away" by Pat Green

For all of those parents like me who travel a good bit, singer Pat Green recently put out this very well-done and quite touching video, "While I Was Away": I’d honestly never heard of Pat Green before, but a work colleague shared the link on an internal forum. My work takes me away from my wife and kids for about 25% of the time … so about 80-90 days a year… and it’s definitely very hard on all of us. I’m thankful my job doesn’t take me away more, as some of the other professions do. But each time I’m…

Aug 17

TDYR 261 – Working In Toronto For A Week

I’m working in Toronto, Ontario, this week… and in this episode I explain a bit about WHY…

Aug 17

#821: The pitfalls of product promotion on social media

News That Fits discussions: The pitfalls of product promotion on social media: lessons to learn from Kim Kardashian’s drug-product promo on Instagram; Tinder’s Twitter meltdown: was it a planned PR stunt?
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Aug 10

Hobson & Holtz #820: Marketing is shifting from agencies and moving in-house

Marketing is shifting from agencies and moving in-house; Dan York’s Tech Report, including Google’s handling of new top-level domains, a kerfuffle over Facebook videos, and WeChat and mobile in China; controlling the media channels: can football win the game? and much more.
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