Monday, March 05, 2012

The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #641: March 5, 2012

Content summary: Recording of FIR Book Club #2 with Katie Paine is up; book reviews coming: Stellar Presentations by Shel Israel from Donna Papacosta, and Evangelist Marketing by Alex Goldfayne from Robin Browne; Neville reviewing Kindle edition of #FAIL: The 50 Greatest Social Media Screw-Ups by Bernhard Warner and Matthew Yeomans; News That Fits: Timeline coming to all Facebook pages on March 31; Dan York adds his view on the Facebook pages Timeline, and more; Ragan promo; PRSA’s #PRDefined campaign produces a new definition for PR: what’s the next step?; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Michael Netzley reports from Singapore on Sina Weibo’s 300 million users in China, and more; does Ford’s blog suck?; TemboSocial promo; how brands can use Pinterest without breaking the law; music from Ekoostik Hookah; and more.

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For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report for March 5, 2012: An 81-minute podcast recorded live from Wokingham, Berkshire, England, and Concord, California, USA.


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So, until Monday March 12…

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