The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #281: October 4, 2007

Content summary: FIR face-to-face again in Wokingham, England; FIR Geek Dinner update; thoughts on this week’s CIPR social media workshop and the Ragan/SimplyCommunicate social media masterclass; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Dan York on the Podcasting and New Media Expo and new tools for podcasters including the MicMate, plus a question for listeners on emailing to wikis; Forrester case study on Northwestern Mutual’s enterprise Web 2.0 journey; AIM and Zune integrate social networking; email spamming and the Monster mash; the Dove Onslaught on YouTube; listeners’ comments discussion; music by The Friendly Ghost; and more.

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Posted by neville on 10/04 at 12:50 AM

  1. Shel and Neville,

    On your conversation about writing like you speak, I think using rigid grammar is something that has to be unlearned.

    For me, since I was in grade school, the rules of grammar were drilled into my head. Now, especially in graduate school, it is expected that this kind of elevated writing flows naturally—but consumers (whether they be employees or the man on the street) don’t live and think in academic terms—they think in conversational terms.

    It would be interesting to see the topic of conversational writing brought up at conferences so that communicators may “unlearn” what has been conditioned in them.

    A quick Google search brings up this post from Lifehacker: http://tinyurl.com/2358zt

    -Michael

    Posted by Michael Allison  on  10/04  at  09:56 AM

  2. In response to Dan’s question about emailing into a wiki, SocialText has that exact feature. When you set up a workspace there is an email address that is automatically set up. So for instance a workspace called “Dan York” would have an email address of “dan-york@socialtext.net”. The subject line becomes the page title. If you use the title of an existing page as the subject line, the email will be inserted into the existing page.

    Hope this is what you were looking for.

    Posted by Lee White  on  10/05  at  05:01 AM

  3. Shel & Neville -

    Another great show.  I liked your discussion on planning to go viral and how Dove is trying to repeat it with their latest campaign. 

    Not being in the PR field, I have a question for the PR community: “why doesn’t every PR campaign enable viral marketing?” 

    Recently IBM launched a really cute campaign on innovation.  The commercials point to a web site but the web site doesn’t reference the commercials and they aren’t on web. I wanted to forward the commercial to my tech friends but can’t. 

    So can anyone explain why an Ad agency wouldn’t place every commercial on You Tube and every other video site?

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