Hobson and Holtz
The Hobson & Holtz Report
Monday, February 12, 2007
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #214: February 12, 2007
Content summary: Come to the New Communications Forum in March; claims of website fraud against Best Buy; avoiding legal loopholes in intranet policy management; developments in the world of wikis; hacking Skype: 25 tips to improve your Skype experience; Linden Lab releases detailed demographic and other information about Second Life, Boomer Esiason Foundation’s activities in Second Life, and Comverse demos Second Life on mobile phones: more reasons for communicators to pay attention; listeners’ comments discussion; news about Thursday’s show; the music; and more.
Show notes for February 12, 2007
Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 51-minute podcast recorded live from New York City, USA.
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So, until Thursday February 15…
Thursday, February 08, 2007
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #213: February 8, 2007
Content summary: Introductions from the guests* (pictured below) at the Atlanta geek dinner; an FIR listener experiences GoToMeeting; John Cass invites you to the New Communications Forum in March; Wikileaks: anonymous wiki for government and corporate whistleblowers; flogs will soon be illegal in the UK; the Olympics and athlete blogging; Google opens up Gmail to all; Dan York reports on FeedShake, Lee Hopkins’ Second Life blog, Podcamp Toronto; listeners’ comments discussion; more from the Atlanta geek dinner; next Monday’s show coming live from New York City; the music; and more.
(*L-R: Jacqui Chew, Neville Hobson, Ashley Imsand, Wes Gossett, John Patton, Gavin Baker, Hicham Bouani, Shel Holtz, Robert French.)
Show notes for February 8, 2007
Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 60-minute podcast recorded live from Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
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So, until Monday February 12…
Monday, February 05, 2007
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #212: February 5, 2007
Content summary: Atlanta geek dinner on Wednesday; SNCR conversation marketing survey; new survey on mobile phone usage in the US; National Pork Board’s threats to the Lactivist Breastfeeding Blog only produces bad PR; the social media newsroom template debuts; the Boston bomb marketing bungle costs Turner Broadcasting; Lee Hopkins reports; follow up discussion on ‘what is employee communication’; listeners’ comments discussion; reminder of the New Communications Forum in March; experiencing the Superbowl; the music; and more.
Show notes for February 5, 2007
Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 54-minute podcast recorded live from Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
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Links for the blogs, individuals, companies and organizations we discussed or mentioned in the show are posted to the FIR Show Links pages at The New PR Wiki. You can contribute - see the home page for info.
If you have comments or questions about this show, or suggestions for our future shows, email us at fircomments@gmail.com; or call the Comment Line at +1 206 222 2803 (North America) or +44 20 8133 9844 (Europe); or Skype: fircomments. You can email your comments, questions and suggestions as MP3 file attachments, if you wish (max. 3 minutes / 5Mb attachment, please!). We’ll be happy to see how we can include your audio contribution in a show.
So, until Thursday February 8…
Thursday, February 01, 2007
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #211: February 1, 2006
Content summary: Vote for FIR at Podcast Alley; Boston bomb scare is bad marketing not bad PR; IABC launches new brand identity; Hill & Knowlton’s David Ferrabee asks what is internal communication?; prepping employees to be company bloggers; Dan York reports on FeedBurner blog network to aggregate RSS feeds, Ikea video contest, Podcamp Toronto; YouTube isn’t the only type of digital video gaining steam; listeners’ comments discussion; FIR from Atlanta next week; the music; and more.
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Show notes for February 1, 2007
Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 62-minute podcast recorded live from Wokingham, Berkshire, England, and almost live from Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
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So, until Monday February 5…
Monday, January 29, 2007
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #210: January 29, 2007
Content summary: New Media Release podcast posted; using citizen journalists to cover mainstream news; Adobe wants to make the PDF file format an international and open standard; cybersquatters taking over abandoned blogs; comparing Google Analytics, Statcounter and FeedBurner; Lee Hopkins reports on YouTube, race hate and crisis communication, Edirol R-09, Ted Demopoulous’s new book; David Phillips takes a critical look at the recent blog ROI report from Forrester Research; listeners’ comments discussion including commentary from Carmen van Kerchove on the Celebrity Big Brother racism kerfuffle; reminder about the New Communications Forum in March; FIR Frappr community (non)update; how Sonny Combs pitched us for today’s music; the music; and more.
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Show notes for January 29, 2007
Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 59-minute podcast recorded live from Concord, California, USA, and Wokingham, Berkshire, England.
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Links for the blogs, individuals, companies and organizations we discussed or mentioned in the show are posted to the FIR Show Links pages at The New PR Wiki. You can contribute - see the home page for info.
If you have comments or questions about this show, or suggestions for our future shows, email us at fircomments@gmail.com; or call the Comment Line at +1 206 222 2803 (North America) or +44 20 8133 9844 (Europe); or Skype: fircomments. You can email your comments, questions and suggestions as MP3 file attachments, if you wish (max. 3 minutes / 5Mb attachment, please!). We’ll be happy to see how we can include your audio contribution in a show.
So, until Thursday February 1…
Thursday, January 25, 2007
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #209: January 25, 2007
Content summary: Discussion topics from listeners: PR is too important for PR people, blogs in China affect Starbucks, win a place at the New Communications Forum; Dan York reports further on RSS autodiscovery and commentary on trackback spam; communication challenges for British Airways as strike looms; Microsoft’s attempt to correct a Wikipedia entry; AdvestiGate ‘fingerprint’ system to scan website video and audio; GM’s blogger outreach programme; World Economic Forum: CEOs should blog; the music; and more.
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Show notes for January 25, 2007
Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 56-minute podcast recorded live from Wokingham, Berkshire, England, and Concord, California, USA.
Download the file here (MP3, 26MB), or sign up for the RSS feed to get it and future shows automatically. (For automatic synchronization with your iPod or other digital player, you’ll also need a podcatcher such as Juice, DopplerRadio, iTunes or Yahoo! Podcasts, or an RSS aggregator that supports podcasts such as FeedDemon).
Listen to this podcast now:
In This Edition:
Links for the blogs, individuals, companies and organizations we discussed or mentioned in the show are posted to the FIR Show Links pages at The New PR Wiki. You can contribute - see the home page for info.
If you have comments or questions about this show, or suggestions for our future shows, email us at fircomments@gmail.com; or call the Comment Line at +1 206 222 2803 (North America) or +44 20 8133 9844 (Europe); or Skype: fircomments. You can email your comments, questions and suggestions as MP3 file attachments, if you wish (max. 3 minutes / 5Mb attachment, please!). We’ll be happy to see how we can include your audio contribution in a show.
So, until Monday January 29…
Monday, January 22, 2007
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #208: January 22, 2007
Content summary: Two new FIR podcasts posted; marketers upset about changes to Outlook; track website analytics with RSS feeds; online newspaper blog traffic grows 210%; blogger, not splog, hijacks blog content; increasing criticism of Celebrity Big Brother and the UK’s Channel 4 as advertisers pull out: what does this TV show say about society?; David Phillips reports on social media on steroids; the social media press release kerfuffle; listener’s comment discussion; reminder about the New Communications Forum in March; the music; and more.
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Show notes for January 22, 2007
Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 56-minute podcast recorded live from Concord, California, USA, and Wokingham, Berkshire, England.
Download the file here (MP3, 26MB), or sign up for the RSS feed to get it and future shows automatically. (For automatic synchronization with your iPod or other digital player, you’ll also need a podcatcher such as Juice, DopplerRadio, iTunes or Yahoo! Podcasts, or an RSS aggregator that supports podcasts such as FeedDemon).
Listen to this podcast now:
In This Edition:
Links for the blogs, individuals, companies and organizations we discussed or mentioned in the show are posted to the FIR Show Links pages at The New PR Wiki. You can contribute - see the home page for info.
If you have comments or questions about this show, or suggestions for our future shows, email us at fircomments@gmail.com; or call the Comment Line at +1 206 222 2803 (North America) or +44 20 8133 9844 (Europe); or Skype: fircomments. You can email your comments, questions and suggestions as MP3 file attachments, if you wish (max. 3 minutes / 5Mb attachment, please!). We’ll be happy to see how we can include your audio contribution in a show.
So, until Thursday January 25…
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