Monday, August 13, 2012

The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #664: August 13, 2012

Content summary: FIR Interview with Cisco’s John Earnhardt posted; Quick News Clips: your FIR co-hosts inspire a PRSA press release about ethics in public relations; try The Crisis Show, a G+ Hangout podcasty thing; HuffPostLive video launches; Connectify Dispatch on Kickstarter; Google Buys Frommers; Ragan promo; News That Fits: online influence scoring is about the context not a single metric says Kred’s Andrew Grill; Dan York reports on App.Net funding and the new version of WordPress’ mobile app for iOS; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Australian Facebook commenting ruling: the example of Smirnoff and the wider implications for advertisers (and Facebook); listener comments including a report from Suresh Babu in India; TemboSocial promo; Michael Netzley reports from Singapore on mobile information services get critical weather updates to India’s rural farmers, and more; music from Plastic Sky; and more.

Get FIR:

Messages from our sponsors: FIR is brought to you with Lawrence Ragan Communications, serving communicators worldwide for 35 years, www.ragan.com; Save time with the CustomScoop online clipping service: sign up for your free two-week trial, at www.customscoop.com/fir; and TemboSocial (formerly Pollstream): helping you transform your communications goals into exciting strategies that will enable you to engage, educate and inform your customers and employees online, pollstream.com/fir/.

For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report for August 13, 2012: An 77-minute podcast recorded live from Concord, California, USA, and Wokingham, Berkshire, England.


Links to websites, blog posts and other content we discuss in the show are posted as Delicious bookmarks to facilitate your connection with the discussions and sharing of that content.

FIR Show Notes links
Names of blogs, individuals, companies and organizations we discussed or mentioned in the show are posted to the FIR Show Notes pages at The New PR Wiki. You can contribute time stamps – see the show notes home page for info.

FIR on Friendfeed
Share your comments or questions about this show, or suggestions for future shows, in the FIR FriendFeed Room. You can also email us at fircomments@gmail.com; call the Comment Line at +1 206 338 7960 (North America), +44 20 3239 9082 (Europe), or Skype: fircomments; comment at Twitter: twitter.com/FIR. 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.

To stay informed about occasional FIR events (eg, FIR Live), sign up for FIR Update email news.

So, until Monday August 20…

Posted by neville on 08/13 at 11:07 AM
Show Notes • Hobson and Holtz • (0) Comments • Permalink