The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #173: September 18, 2006

The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #173: September 18, 2006

Content summary: New FIR Speakers & Speeches podcast posted; Neville’s video interviews with David Brain and Pete Blackshaw; the Lieberman campaign blog; iPod fans shun iTunes; Forrester Research and KnowledgeStorm study on social media influence on b2b; pitching journalists the social media way; Lee Hopkins reports; discussion topic: Richard Edelman’s post on tolerance and the role of PR; David Phillips reports; listeners’ comments discussion; Shel at Toronto geek dinner; Podcast Expo and dine-around; Neville’s moving to the UK; the music; and more.

Show notes for September 18, 2006

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So, until Thursday September 21…

Posted by neville on 09/18 at 01:11 PM
  1. Quick clarification. The new season of Survivor isn’t really called “Survivor: Race Wars”—that’s just the snarky name that various blogs have been using to refer to the absurdity of the premise. I think Gawker probably coined it. :)

    Posted by Carmen Van Kerckhove  on  09/19  at  12:19 PM
  2. I suppose a lifetime in PR ingrains circumspection as a reflex (and anyway, Neville is British), but sometimes you just have to call a spade a bloody shovel.

    Merging companies with different cultures (whether that’s internal corporate culture or nationality) naturally raises issues. There are policies to be established, differences to be acknowledged and accomodated, and so forth and so on. How well the companies handle the issues dictates whether the merger goes smoothly.

    Racism is not an “issue.” Derogatory remarks and other forms of discrimination on the basis of race, gender, religion, etc are a problem.

    —The Natural-Born Pedant

    Posted by Sallie Goetsch (rhymes with "sketch")  on  09/21  at  04:14 AM

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