May 26, 2006

Feeding the thirst for knowledge about social media

- NevilleHobson.com

Tuesday and Wednesday in Cologne, Thursday in London… quite an intense travel week. So now back at base in Amsterdam to get my head down in resuming some pressing client work before the next expedition wave to Barcelona next... ›››

May 08, 2006

OPML sharing needs to be easier

- NevilleHobson.com

Steve Rubel is right: Like RSS and tagging, over the next several years OPML is going to become a core underlying technology for marketers in the conversation economy. […] I see it becoming a big social network for feeds.... ›››

April 14, 2006

The next wave at work

- NevilleHobson.com

A report in the Financial Times on social media in the workplace highlights some terrific examples from companies who talk about the benefits to be gained from deploying blogs, wikis and RSS. Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein: […] More than 450... ›››

March 24, 2006

More spreading the word

- NevilleHobson.com

As we’re about to head into the second quarter of 2006, I’m reviewing my schedule for conferences and workshops I’m involved with as a speaker/presenter. I invest a great deal in time and commitment to spreading the word about... ›››

Category: Communication | Events | Professional Development | Social Networks

March 20, 2006

Social bookmarking for the enterprise

- NevilleHobson.com

Tagging and social bookmarking - two phrases much in vogue today as the means with which individuals can track information online and connect it with their own and other people’s interests. A new venture called Cogenz looks as though... ›››

Category: Business | Communication | Social Networks | Workplace

March 16, 2006

Go away, Kool-Aid and Star Wars

- NevilleHobson.com

Everyone believes that one of the points of blogging and the internet in general is to connect with other people, right? That’s why we pay attention to things like LinkedIn connections, Technorati rankings, BlogPulse conversation trackers and other tools... ›››

Category: Humour | Social Networks | Technology

March 09, 2006

TPG Post-sponsored stamp lovers’ blog launched

- NevilleHobson.com

Dutch-speaking philatelists can now share their passion with other stamp collectors at the Postzegel blog (”Stamp blog” in English) which launched yesterday. Sponsored by TPG Post, the Dutch national postal service and part of the global TNT Group, the... ›››

Category: Marketing | Social Networks | Weblogs

February 10, 2006

Four things tag

- NevOn

Ok, Phil, I saw your tag, so here goes... Four Jobs I've Had Barman (yeah, everyone's done this one) TV ad voice-over provider (that was fun!) Yellow Pages ad salesman in the Middle East (which earned me enough to... ›››

Category: Communication | Social Networks | Weblogs | four things

February 08, 2006

Comments are integral parts of the conversation

- NevOn

While I'm still having a bit of difficulty figuring out whether the 30Boxes calendaring service is worth spending any time with or not, I'm having no such difficulty in seeing the value of a service like coComment. The concept... ›››

February 06, 2006

30Boxes first look

- NevOn

I've been following the growing blogosphere buzz during the past week about 30 Boxes, a new online calendar application that some are saying is the killer calendar application. So I signed up for the beta yesterday. Noodled around with... ›››

Category: 30boxes | Innovation | Social Networks | Web/Tech | Workplace

January 28, 2006

Choice podcasts from Davos

- NevOn

I've spent a little time today listening to a few of the audio recordings from the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Interesting listening, many of them, even though they are recordings of speeches and sessions which you... ›››

January 22, 2006