Monday, March 14, 2005
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #15: March 14, 2005
Content summary: A new phone-in comment service now available; listeners’ comments: on sound quality, a suggestion for interview transcriptions; customer service and the Technorati example; government lobbying and Cisco’s new blog; the revolutionary fervour of blogging and the evolutionary development of mainstream media; ethics in PR; IABC: leadership and transparency in discussion.
Show notes for March 14, 2005
Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 51-minute conversation recorded live from Concord, California, USA, and Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Download the file here (MP3, 23.3MB), 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 software such as the FeedDemon RSS aggregator, or the free ipodder or DopplerRadio).
In this week’s show:
Intro:
- 00:29 Shel and Neville on what’s in this week’s show; how to give your feedback; show notes
- 01:06 New comment service - phone in your comments to the Comment Line at +1 206 984 0931
- 02:25 Comments from the last show
- 09:42 Steve Rubel interview - scheduled but not happening today
Topics:
- 10:42 Customer service - Technorati, the influence of blogs and customer service departments
- 20:23 Public affairs and government lobbying - the Cisco Systems’ High Tech Policy Blog
- 24:44 Trevor Cook asks: Can blogging retain its revolutionary fervour?; the evolutionary development of mainstream media
- 33:39 Ethics in PR - do you have to understand your model before you establish your ethical frameworks?
- 40:06 IABC - Jeremy Pepper‘s upcoming interview with IABC Chair David Kistle; leadership, transparency in discussion and the IABC Chair Blog.
Outro:
- 46:27 How to give your feedback; show notes; about the music and the band; outro music
Links for the blogs, individuals, companies and organizations we discussed or mentioned in the show:
Intro - SkypeOut, Skype, Frank Meeuwson, Blogging Planet, Blognomics, Richard Rowan, Dragon Naturally-Speaking, Sebastian Kiel, Dan York, Robert Scoble, Audacity, Steve Rubel.
Topics - Technorati, Dave Sifrey, Ian Kallan, Stuart Roebuck, Dave Taylor, Jeremy Pepper, Cisco Systems’ High Tech Policy Blog, Rick Bruner, Business Blog Consulting, Trevor Cook, Blogtalk Downunder, Financial Times, Reuters, Tom Glocer, Ventura County Star, Le Monde, Contra Costa Times, Philip Young, University of Sunderland, Chartered Institute of Public Relations, New York Times, Ketchum, Jay Rosen, IABC, David Kistle, Allan Jenkins, IABC Chair Blog, Robert Holland, Charles Pizzo.
Outro - Garageband.com, Oscar Trim, For Immediate Release, A Shel of My Former Self, NevOn.
If you have comments or questions about this show, or suggestions for our future shows, email us at comments@forimmediaterelease.biz. You can email your comments, questions and suggestions as MP3 file attachments, if you wish (max. 5Mb attachment, please!). We’ll be happy to see how we can include your audio contribution in a show.
So, until Thursday March 17…
Thursday, March 10, 2005
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #14: March 10, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments about the interview with Robert Scoble; how to get podcasts automatically with podcatcher software; discussion about the Robert Scoble interview; a new PR blog and a resurrected one make their debuts; communication consultancies focused on new-media channels; IABC; a little rant about Blogrolling.
Show notes for March 10, 2005
Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 55-minute conversation recorded live from Concord, California, USA, and Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Download the file here (MP3, 22.1MB), 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 software such as the FeedDemon RSS aggregator, or the free ipodder or DopplerRadio).
In this week’s show:
Intro:
- 00:31 Shel and Neville on what’s in this week’s show; how to give your feedback; show notes
- 01:47 Comments from the last show
Topics:
- 10:09 How to use a podcatcher
- 14:48 The Robert Scoble interview - what did we think?
- 21:50 A new PR blog (KD Paine) and a resurrected one (Burson-Marsteller)
- 27:26 Blogging Panet and new-channel consultancies
- 32:36 IABC - leadership directions, transparency in discussion, the Chair blog
- 37:54 Shel and Neville - IABC Fellow and Lip-Sticking feature, respectively
- 43:02 Rant - Neville on Blogrolling.com
Outro:
- 47:00 Next interview: Steve Rubel, Monday March 14; how to give your feedback; show notes; about the music and the band; outro music
Links for the blogs, individuals, companies and organizations we discussed or mentioned in the show:
Intro - Richard Rowan, Sheri Rosen, The Red Couch, Scott Solomon, Peter West, Josh Hallett, Will Simpson.
Topics - iPodder, Doppler Radio, Adam Curry, Lisa Williams, iPodder ‘how-to’ video, FeedDemon, Nick Bradbury, iTunes, iPod, Robert Scoble, Outlook, Microsoft, Office marketing site, Teleo, Skype, KD Paine, Delahaye MediaLink, Burson-Marsteller blog, Pew Internet Survey, Andy Lark, Constantin Basturea, Blogging Planet, Elizabeth Albrycht, Guillaume du Gardier, Christophe Ducamp, CooperKatz, Steve Rubel, Mercer, IABC, Allan Jenkins, Brian Kilgore, Robert Holland, Warren Bickford, Ron Martin, Bobby Resnick, John Aspery, Philip Douglas, Roger D’Aprix, Wilma Matthews, Chris Bunting, Fred Halperin, Brad Whitworth, Norm Leaper, Ian Hawkins, Ann Forest, Tudor Williams, IABC International Conference, Lip-Sticking, Yvonne DiVita, New Communications Forum 2005, Windsor Media Enterprises, Blogrolling, TypePad, Del.icio.us, Bloglines.
Outro - Phil Lesh & Friends, RIAA, For Immediate Release, A Shel of My Former Self, NevOn.
Audio issue note: We’re sorry that audio quality over Skype in this show was somewhat patchy at times when Neville spoke. We hope it doesn’t spoil your listening enjoyment.
If you have comments or questions about this show, or suggestions for our future shows, email us at comments@forimmediaterelease.biz. You can email your comments, questions and suggestions as MP3 file attachments, if you wish (max. 5Mb attachment, please!). We’ll be happy to see how we can include your audio contribution in a show.
So, until Monday, March 14…
Tuesday, March 08, 2005
An Open Conversation with Robert Scoble, Microsoft Geek Blogger
Yesterday, Shel and I interviewed Robert Scoble, the Scobleizer, in the March 7 edition of The Hobson & Holtz Report.
In a 38-minute conversation, we discussed a wide range of topics, including evangelism, anti-marketing, blogging, RSS and reading feeds, email mailing lists, relationships with colleagues, internal blogs at Microsoft, The Red Couch book project, a blogging ombudsman, and advice for communicators.
You can download the conversation (MP3, 25Mb) and listen to what we talked about. Follow the overall show with the show notes. And, sign up to the RSS feed to get future shows automatically in your RSS reader.
As we always do our show and interviews over Skype, this one was the same. We Skyped Robert in from his office in Redmond, USA, and, after fixing a few little sound glitches at the start, had a terrific discussion!
Here’s the transcript of our conversation. For clarity and continuity, I’ve edited out the little sound or connection glitches we encountered in a few parts of our conversation.
Monday, March 07, 2005
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #13: March 7, 2005
Content summary: A discussion about IBM’s 2,800 internal blogs - how do they enable collaboration in the workplace?; and a 38-minute conversation with Robert Scoble, Microsoft’s “geek blogger” - on evangelism, anti-marketing, blogging, RSS and reading feeds, email mailing lists, relationships with colleagues, internal blogs at Microsoft, The Red Couch book project, a blogging ombudsman, advice for communicators.
Show notes for March 7, 2005
Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 62-minute conversation recorded live from Concord, California, USA, and Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Download the file here (MP3, 25MB), 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 software such as the FeedDemon RSS aggregator, or the free ipodder or DopplerRadio).
In this week’s show:
Intro:
- 00:34 Shel and Neville on what’s in this week’s show; how to give your feedback; show notes
- 01:24 Comment from the last show
Short Take:
- 05:24 IBM’s 2,800 internal blogs - how they are being used, what they mean for collaborative working and information sharing; what other companies may be doing
Feature:
- 15:48 Interview: A live conversation with Robert Scoble, Microsoft’s “geek blogger.” (Read the complete interview transcript.)
Outro:
- 54:00 Potential format change to this show; next interview: Steve Rubel, Monday March 14; how to give your feedback; show notes; about the music and the band; outro music
Links for the blogs, individuals, companies and organizations we discussed or mentioned in the show:
Intro - Sifry’s Alerts, Technorati, Technorati Searchlet, Amsterdam Schiphol airport, Google.
Short Take - Philippe Borremans, IBM Belgium & Luxembourg, IAOC, IBM, Microsoft, Sun, Kelloggs, Gilbane Group report on blogs and wikis, Intel, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, Financial Times, Charlene Li, Forrester Research, WordPress, Skype, Skype Journal.
Feature - Robert Scoble, Microsoft, Channel 9, Windows, .NET, Bill Gates, Longhorn, Quicken, Yahoo, Adobe, Photoshop, Avalon 3D, The Economist interview, Steve Rubel, Microsoft Office marketing site, Tablet PC, Waggener Edstrom, Macintosh, Eric Peterson, Jupiter Research, PowerPoint, Scoble link blog, Outlook, NewsGator, Java, Linux, Apple, Visual C#, ActiveWin, National Association of Broadcasters, NEC, SharePoint, Shel Israel, The Red Couch, Wiley, Dan Gillmor, Steve Ballmer.
Outro - Jeremy Wright, Fergus Burns, The Mexican, Verbal Clint, Kevin Spacey, Garageband.com, For Immediate Release, A Shel of My Former Self, NevOn.
If you have comments or questions about this show, or suggestions for our future shows, email us at comments@forimmediaterelease.biz. You can email your comments, questions and suggestions as MP3 file attachments, if you wish (max. 5Mb attachment, please!). We’ll be happy to see how we can include your audio contribution in a show.
So, until Thursday, March 10…
Thursday, March 03, 2005
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #12: March 3, 2005
Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 33-minute conversation recorded live from a hotel room in Chicago, IL with recorded input from Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Download the file here (MP3, 13.3MB), 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 software such as the FeedDemon RSS aggregator, or the free ipodder or DopplerRadio).
In this week’s show:
Intro:
- 00:27 Shel and Neville on what’s in this week’s show; how to give your feedback; show notes
- 04:28 Comments from the last show
Short Takes:
- 12:42 Jupiter’s Eric Peterson and RSS in marketing
- 18:55 Mike Manuel’s post on blogging business practices
- 22:00 Red Couch blogging book project by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel
- 24:35 Technorati’s searchlet blog plugin
- 26:15 iPod at Drexel University
- 29:00 Outro
- 29:18 Music: UMASS Front Percussion Ensemble’s “Paranoid Android”
Links for the blogs, individuals, companies and organizations we discussed or mentioned in the show:
Intro - Steve Rubel, Robert Scoble, DigiDesign, Jeremy Pepper, Edward Tufte’s “Cognitive Style of PowerPoint”, Mark Taylor, ANT open-source vblogging project, Cool MP3 Splitter.
Short Takes - Jupiter’s Eric Peterson, Cooper Katz’s Micro Persuasion Practice, Jeremy Wright, Blogging Planet, The Red Couch, Scobleizer, Shel Israel’s “It Seems to Me”, Wiley, Technorati Searchlet, Sifry’s Alerts, Drexel University iPod story.
Outro - Paranoid Android download from Podsafe Music, For Immediate Release, A Shel of My Former Self, NevOn.
If you have comments or questions about this show, or suggestions for our future shows, email us at comments@forimmediaterelease.biz. You can email your comments, questions and suggestions as MP3 file attachments, if you wish (max. 5Mb attachment, please!). We’ll be happy to see how we can include your audio contribution in a show.
So, until Monday, March 7…
Monday, February 28, 2005
The Hobson and Holtz Report - Podcast #11: February 28, 2005
Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 62-minute conversation recorded live via Skype from Concord, California, USA, and Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Download the file here (MP3, 25MB), 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 software such as the FeedDemon RSS aggregator, or the free ipodder or DopplerRadio).
In this week’s show:
Intro:
- 00:38 Shel and Neville on what’s in this week’s show; how to give your feedback; show notes
- 01:38 Comments from the last show
Short Takes:
- 09:22 Publicists and PR - Jeremy Pepper and Ragan ProfNet; BL Ochman’s open letter to PR people
- 15:05 RSS - feeds to go on your mobile phone; Nooked corporate RSS directrory
- 22:26 Podcasting - Adam Curry at 40,000 feet; Lutherans blogging; podcasting from the heart of the Catholic Church
Features:
- 32:26 Corporate podcasts and copyright - what protection do you really have over your intellectual property rights?
- 41:20 Video blogging - easy production tools mean vlogging could be the next big thing
Personal Takes:
- 49:14 Shel - podcast recording traps; a new Apple G4 Powerbook
- 52:58 Neville - is the Firefox 1.0.1 release flaky?; Cliff Atkinson and Beyond Bullet Points
Outro:
- 56:18 Upcoming interviews: Steve Rubel, Thursday March 3; Robert Scoble, Monday March 7; how to give your feedback; show notes; about the music and the band; outro music
Links for the blogs, individuals, companies and organizations we discussed or mentioned in the show:
Intro - Constantin Basturea, The New PR Wiki, Niall Cook, Hill & Knowlton UK, Kevin O’Keefe, Jason Kottke, Mark Taylor, Skype, Clickatell, Sprint, Cingular, Connectotel, BBC.
Short Takes - Jeremy Pepper, ProfNet, Ragan Communications, PoweR Girls, MTV, Matthew Podboy, BL Ochman, Treo 650, Hand/RSS for Palm OS, Windows Mobile, Feed Demon, Bloglines, Feedburner, Outlook, Nooked, New Communications Forum 2005, Financial Times, The Economist, Wall Street Journal, Adam Curry, Creative Zen Micro, iRiver, Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, Catholic Insider, Rorate.
Features - Behind the Scenes, Godcast, Podcast Brothers, General Motors, GM FastLane Blog, Autoblog, Windows Media Player, Odeo, Ford, Jason Calacanis, Weblogs, Skweezer, Creative Commons, John Perry Barlow, Robin Good, Serious Magic, Visual Communicator, Vlog It!, DEMO, Peter Jackson, King Kong production blog, Oscars, Million Dollar Baby, Martin Scorsese, Hilary Swank, Clint Eastwood, ANT, Feed Demon, Nick Bradbury.
Personal Takes - Sony Vaio, original IBM PC, Apple G4 Powerbook, iPod Mini, Apple IIe, Radio Shack TRS-80, Firefox, Cliff Atkinson, Sociable Media, Beyond Bullet Points, Microsoft Press, PowerPoint, Tom Mucciolo.
Outro - Steve Rubel, Robert Scoble, Garageband.com, Brianna, For Immediate Release, A Shel of My Former Self, NevOn.
If you have comments or questions about this show, or suggestions for our future shows, email us at comments@forimmediaterelease.biz. You can email your comments, questions and suggestions as MP3 file attachments, if you wish (max. 5Mb attachment, please!). We’ll be happy to see how we can include your audio contribution in a show.
So, until Thursday March 3…
Thursday, February 24, 2005
The Hobson and Holtz Report - Podcast #10: February 24, 2005
Show notes for February 24, 2005.
Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 54:14-minute conversation recorded live via Skype from Chicago, USA, and Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Download the file here (MP3, 22MB), 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 software such as the FeedDemon RSS aggregator, or the free ipodder or DopplerRadio.)
In this week’s show:
Intro:
- 00:31 Shel and Neville on what’s in this week’s show; how to give your feedback; show notes
Short Takes:
- 01:47 The GM interview - comments and what other bloggers say in their blogs; building connections
- 11:47 Upcoming interview with Robert Scoble, Microsoft
- 12:30 Text information vs podcasts, and downloads
- 13:52 Jason Kottke quits job to become a full-time blogger; how feasible is blogging full time?
- 20:14 Skype - the service and third-party developments: new Skype-SMS gateway service
- 25:04 Products and services and beta developments - partnering for added value
- 27:54 Constantin Basturea’s PR blogger list and The New PR Wiki
Feature:
- 33:20 Marketing, the web and RSS - it’s about building connections and relationships
Outro:
- 48:40 Next week’s interview: Steve Rubel, Thursday March 3; how to give your feedback; show notes; about the music and the band; outro music
Links for the blogs, individuals, companies and organizations we discussed or mentioned in the show:
Short Takes - Michael Wiley, General Motors, GM FastLane Blog, Robert French, Technorati, Lee Lefever, Kevin O’Keefe, Olivier Tripet, Robin Capper, Bob Lutz, Hass MS, PubSub, Robert Scoble, Shel Israel, The Red Couch, Jason Kottke, Weblogs, Geek News Central, Chris Pirillo, Lockergnome, Skype, Connectotel, Engadget, Apple, iPod, Constantin Basturea, Blogdigger, Headlines from PR Weblogs, The CEO Blogs List, New Communications Forum 2005, The New PR Wiki, Firefox, Internet Explorer, IE blog, Northern Voice.
Feature - Robert Scoble, The Tipping Point, Jupiter Research, Eric Peterson, Michael Gartenberg, Financial Times, Dave Winer, Steve Rubel, AP, Yahoo News, Reuters, Renee Blodgett, NewsGator, VNU, Microsoft Outlook, Feed Demon, Microsoft Office, Tom Foremski, Silicon Valley Watcher, Internet 2.0 initiative, Amazon.
Outro - Steve Rubel, Podsafe Music, James Yorkston & The Athletes, For Immediate Release, A Shel of My Former Self, NevOn.
If you have comments or questions about this show, or suggestions for our future shows, email us at comments@forimmediaterelease.biz. You can email your comments, questions and suggestions as MP3 file attachments, if you wish (max. 5Mb attachment, please!). We’ll be happy to see how we can include your audio contribution in a show.
So, until Monday February 28…
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