Thursday, February 21, 2008
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #321: February 21, 2008
Content summary: Podcast Alley voting system now working again; discussion: the legitimacy of print on demand; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; description meta tags; the influence of employee bloggers in corporate acquisitions; successful marketing campaigns on social networks; start-up brings Second Life to mobile phones; Dan York reports; listeners’ comments discussion; upcoming FIR Interview; music from Rock Kills Kid; and more.
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Show notes for February 21, 2008
Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 60-minute podcast recorded live from Wokingham, Berkshire, England, and Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
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So, until Monday February 25…
Monday, February 18, 2008
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #320: February 18, 2008
Content summary: FIR Interview with Connie Reece, Frozen Pea Fund, posted; FIR Report from Ronna Porter on IABC EuroComm posted; listener poll on FIR Live on BlogTalk Radio: results so far; the Gawker vs Edelman kerfuffle; CNN fires producer for blogging; Reuters introduces Calais semantic web service; social network developments: seesmic, Sonico, Twitxer; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; listeners’ comments discussion; music from The Frantic; and more.
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Show notes for February 18, 2008
Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 58-minute podcast recorded live from Concord, California, USA, and Wokingham, Berkshire, England.
Download the file here (MP3, 26.5MB), or sign up for the RSS feed to get it and future shows automatically. (For automatic synchronization with your iPod, subscribe with iTunes; good podcatchers include Juice and DopplerRadio, and RSS aggregators that supports podcasts such as FeedDemon.)
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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; or comment at Twitter: twitter.com/FIR; or at Jaiku: fir.jaiku.com. 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.
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So, until Thursday February 21…
Sunday, February 17, 2008
FIR Interview: Connie Reece, Frozen Pea Fund - Feb 17, 2008
What did it take to capture the imagination of people and inspire them to take action that, collectively, tranformed into a movement of support, including financial, that gathered spontaneous and rapid momentum primarily via the micro-blogging online community that is Twitter?
This is the story of Susan Reynolds, an artist, new media consultant and mother, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in December 2007 and underwent a mastectomy later that month. From the outset, she blogged her experiences including about what she was using to ease her pain - bags of frozen peas.
It was Susan’s post and photo about a bag of frozen peas that started it all (explained here). Members of Susan’s Twitter community soon began adding peas to their avatar images; this supportive action quickly spread throughout a broader Twitter community and beyond.
It’s also the story of Connie Reece. A suggestion via Twitter for donating the equivalent of the cost of two bags of frozen peas to cancer research led to Connie Reece stepping into the peas picture with the formation of the Frozen Pea Fund, a fundraising effort for breast cancer research and programs through the American Cancer Society.
In a follow-up to a discussion about the Frozen Pea Fund in FIR #304 on December 24, 2007, FIR hosts Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz talked with Connie about the fund and awareness-raising in a discussion that also considered how organizations could learn from spontaneous and authentic communication and the role of channels such as Twitter.
If you wish to support the Frozen Pea Fund, you can donate here.
About our Conversation Partner
Connie Reece is a communications professional with more than three decades of writing and speaking experience, a conversational marketing specialist involved in the research and implementation of emerging media. Connie’s expertise as a conversational writer and her facility for quickly mastering new tools and technologies keep her in demand as a social media consultant.
Through her company, Every Dot Connects, Connie helps businesses learn to speak with an authentic voice and to participate in a dialogue with customers and constituents.
Based in Austin, Texas, USA, Connie is Executive Director of Social Media Club international and a member of the Association of Women in Communication.
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Podsafe intro music - On A Podcast Instrumental Mix (MP3, 5Mb) by Cruisebox.
Other reports and commentaries:
- Frozen Peas: A Case Study - Young Blood PR (Michael Allison), Jan 16, 2008
- How Frozen Peas Started A Movement - Loudon Extra, Washington Post (Craig Colgan), Jan 10, 2008
- More on Twitter in the Enterprise: Susan Reynolds and PEAple - Confused of Calcutta (JP Rangaswami), Dec 23, 2007
- Can You Spare The Odd Pea For A Good Cause? - TechCrunch (Duncan Riley), Dec 21, 2007
Saturday, February 16, 2008
FIR Report: IABC EuroComm 2008
The seventh annual IABC EuroComm Conference took place in Barcelona, Spain on February 4-5, 2008.
This professional development event, organized by IABC Europe and Middle East Region in cooperation with La Salle University, Barcelona, brought together communicators from across the region to learn and share best practices, examine case studies and discuss the latest developments in communication planning, practice and analysis.
Further information on The EuroComm Blog 2008.
FIR listener and IABC member Ronna Porter was there and provides commentary and opinion about the event, the programme and some of the sessions.
About our Commentator
Ronna Porter is a director at Sound Strategies Ltd. She brings in-depth experience in integrated, strategic marketing and communications for some of the world’s leading technology and telecommunications brands. Both in-house, and as a consultant for Report International, Hill & Knowlton and Citigate Corporate, she has directed cross-border programmes for Compaq Computer, Oracle, Motorola, Shell Services International, and BT.
Merging her sector and discipline expertise, Ronna is passionate about the challenges and opportunities that technological development brings to successful corporate and marketing communications, and its impact on continuous brand development. Ronna holds an MSc in Public Relations from the University of Stirling, plus a BA (Hons) in Commerce (with Marketing) from Napier University of Edinburgh.
Ronna blogs at Have your say about Sound.
Download the 14-minute report here (MP3, 6.5MB), or subscribe to the Speakers and Speeches RSS feed to get it and future podcasts automatically. For automatic synchronization with your iPod or other digital player, you’ll also need a podcatcher such as the free Juice, DopplerRadio or iTunes, or an RSS aggregator that supports podcasts such as FeedDemon.
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Thursday, February 14, 2008
FIR Cut: Social Media Release Functionality Among the News Wires
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FIR Cut: The Continuing Difficulty in Leaving Facebook
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The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #319: February 14, 2008
Content summary: Vote in FIR Live call-in poll; upcoming FIR Interview and Speakers & Speeches podcasts; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; CNN launching citizen journalism news site iReport.com; twittering your Yahoo layoff experience; environmental activists confront GM on GMNext blog; blogger influence on weekends; Dan York reports on Yahoo Live and OoVoo, and privacy issues; listeners’ comments discussion; music from City and Colour; and more.
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Show notes for February 14, 2008
Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 59-minute podcast recorded live from Wokingham, Berkshire, England, and Concord, California, USA.
Download the file here (MP3, 26.9MB), or sign up for the RSS feed to get it and future shows automatically. (For automatic synchronization with your iPod, subscribe with iTunes; good podcatchers include Juice and DopplerRadio, and RSS aggregators 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; or comment at Twitter: twitter.com/FIR; or at Jaiku: fir.jaiku.com. 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.
Join the FIR Discussion Forum and extend your conversations with the FIR community. You can also join the FIR Facebook Community and become an FIR friend.
So, until Monday February 18…