For Immediate Release

Hosted ByNeville Hobson and Shel Holtz

Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz analyze the news in digital and social media for communications professionals.


All Episodes

FIR #303: The Quest for a Twitter Alternative

Is it Post.News? Mastodon? And what’s holding everyone back from a mass migration?

FIR #302: Blockchain’s Widely Exaggerated Demise

Despite proclamations that blockchain never held any promise, innovations just keep on coming

FIR #301: A Communicator’s Look at ChatGPT

A new AI text generator is provoking a lot of experimentation along with some consternation

FIR #300: Communicating Pay Transparency

New Laws Are Forcing Companies’ Hands. Those Unprepared Need Their Communicators Now More Than Ever

FIR #299: From the Metaverse to the Fediverse and Back Again

Twitter’s Demise Could Have Severe Implications for Society, but then again, Mastodon is Rising

FIR #298: Social Listening in a Post-Twitter World

If Twitter Fails, Will the Ability to Monitor Social Media Trends Die With It?

FIR #297: A Stirling Example of Augmented Reality

A Scottish City is the First to Deliver a Citywide AR Experience

FIR #296: What Elon Musk Can Learn from Patrick Collinson

Twitter’s mishandled layoff stands in stark contrast to the compassionate approach taken at Stripe

FIR #295: The Value-Add Potential of NFTs

At an NFT conference in London, the buzz wasn’t about digital art investments