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Monday, May 18, 2009
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #449: May 18, 2009
Content summary: Thanks to Dan York and Sallie Goetsch for an outstanding FIR #448; Somesso London 09: no entries for the FIR Listener Contest but Neville was there; new FIR Interview posted; FIR listener dinner at the IABC conference in San Francisco planned for June 7; Shel’s presentation at IABC; best wishes to Ben McConnell; Eric Schwartzman interviews Danny Sullivan, Editor of Search Engine Land; News That Fits: kidney surgeries on Twitter: healthcare social media and what communication means, UK government appoints Director of Digital Engagement, Jennifer Leggio’s second social PR survey results, BusinessWeek special report: an executive guide to social media; Michael Netzley interviews Kelly Choo, Co-Founder and Product Development Director at Brandtology; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; listeners’ comments discussion; music from My Little Radio; and more.
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For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, for May 18, 2009: A 63-minute podcast recorded live from Wokingham, Berkshire, England, and Concord, California, USA.
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Sunday, May 17, 2009
FIR Interview: Jason Goldberg, XING
What your community can tell you about R&D is the basis behind Ship It!, a business model introduced earlier this year to XING by Jason Goldberg, it’s Chief Product Officer who joined the company earlier this year after his Web 2.0 startup, SocialMedian, was acquired by XING in December 2008.
Based in Hamburg, Germany, XING is a social software platform and social network, originally founded as Open/BC. It competes directly with LinkedIn.
In this FIR Interview, recorded at Somesso London 09 on May 15, 2009, Neville Hobson and Jason Goldberg discuss the concept of Ship It! and how it can be applied to people and organizations elsewhere.
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About our Conversation Partner
Jason Goldberg’s sparse bio on his Twitter profile describes him as having “started a tech company in 2004; did ok with it. trying again.” Let’s add a bit to that.
Prior to joining XING, Jason founded and led two Web 2.0 startups. He is the founding entrepreneur and visionary behind Socialmedian, the leading innovator in social news, and Jobster, the leader in web 2.0 recruitment services. Before founding Jobster, Jason led Strategic Planning & Alliances for T-Mobile USA and before that held management positions at AOL Time Warner.
Jason is a frequent public speaker on Web 2.0, social media, employment issues, and recruiting industry trends. He has been featured on CNN, CNBC, Fox Business News, and in the Wall Street Journal and USA Today. From 1993 to 1998 Jason worked at the White House in Washington D.C., the final two years as senior aide to the White House Chief of Staff, Erskine Bowles. He worked for Bill Clinton in a series of leadership roles from 1991 to 1998 before embarking on his current career in business.
Jason received an MBA from Stanford University and holds a BA with honors from Emory University.
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- Related podcast – FIR Speakers & Speeches: Jason Goldberg, CEO, Jobster.com. April 20, 2006
Friday, May 15, 2009
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #448: May 14, 2009
Content summary: Shel’s flying back from Brazil and Neville’s flying to Edinburgh; retrospective on show #339; Google makes changes to search and adds new tools; Media Monitoring Minute; the Twitter reply saga; News That Fits: the Association for Downloadable Media promises to give us some details about the study they did about the podcast audience with Edison if you sign up for their Webinar, Jay Moonah has launched a new Pligg site targeted at nonprofits and associations, a technology called Papermotion that makes your printed newspaper interactive, what does your Facebook profile say about you?, why PR agencies fail at social media, David Phillips’ report, the ePub format; listeners’ comments discussion; music from Mighty Mullane; and more.
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For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, for May 11, 2009: A 57-minute podcast recorded live from Keene, New Hampshire and just across the Bay from San Francisco.
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009
FIR Interview: Mathys van Abbe, Mobypicture
At the Somesso London 09 corporate social media conference in London on May 15, one of the features will be a Twitter-based backchannel, a medium through which conference participants can share commentary and opinion with fellow participants and with others not present at the event.
The backchannel will be made possible by photo sharing service Mobypicture. In this FIR Interview, Neville Hobson discussed the idea of such a backchannel with Mobypicture CEO Mathys van Abbe. Their conversation addressed how it will work at Somesso London 09, developments in online content-sharing including the potential in organizations, and more.
[FIR Listeners can win a free ticket to Somesso London 09. Hurry - contest closes today.]
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About our Conversation Partner
Based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Mathys van Abbe is a web entrepreneur since 1995 currently involved with a number of companies and startups like Mobypicture, Toading, Startpix and Spot2.be. The headquarters of his activities is an old ship in the canals, right in the heart of Amsterdam.
Mathys studied astronomy and computer science at the time he was starting his first company. In 2000, at the peak of the Internet Bubble, he lived in Silicon Valley and knew he wanted to be an internet entrepreneur. He’s a big API evangelist, loves mashups, co-creation, kayakking, diving and skiing.
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Monday, May 11, 2009
FIR Cut: County official takes heat for offering social media job
- KATU.com: County to pay $70K for a Twitter/Facebook guru
- Job posting: Chair’s Office Communication Director/Multnomah County Social Media Coordinator
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FIR Cut: IABC magazine offers three views of communication measurement
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The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #447: May 11, 2009
Content summary: Shel’s in Rio de Janeiro; FIR Listener Contest to win a ticket to Somesso London 09 extended to May 12; Michael Netzley discusses the Sichuan earthquake in China one year on; Andrea Vascellari interviews Brian Solis, Steve Rubel and Stowe Boyd at Next09 in Hamburg; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: the customer is in control as Marks & Spencer gives in to Busts4Justice, the rush to create social media for brands, tweeting from space isn’t the first time NASA has pushed a social medium, the internet is the most useful swine flu news source Pew says; listeners’ comments discussion; Dan York and Sallie Goetsch to present the next FIR #448; music from Clear Blue 22; and more.
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For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, for May 11, 2009: A 62-minute podcast recorded live from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Wokingham, Berkshire, England.
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So, until Thursday May 14…
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