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Monday, April 16, 2012

The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #647: April 16, 2012

Content summary: New call-in number for North America; a recap of Ragan’s International Public Relations and Social Media Summit in Amsterdam last week; Shel and Neville’s session from Amsterdam is a Speakers and Speeches post on FIR; an update on last week’s Pinterest report highlights a UK campaign to get women to stop driving while wearing high heels; News That Fits: five new studies combine to provide a clear picture of the direction digital content is going, a discussion on whether Procter & Gamble made the right decision to block employee access to Pandora and Netflix, Ragan promo, Michael Netzley’s Asia Report focuses on the right amount of transparency and China’s political legitimacy crisis, listener comments discussion, the Media Monitoring Minute from CustomScoop, Dan York’s report includes Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram and the photo service 500px, five ways to get the most out of your Google+ experience, TemboSocial promo, a look at a study that shows companies generate greater returns on investment from proprietary social networks; music from Millencolin; and more.

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For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report for April 9, 2012: An 82-minute podcast recorded live from Wokingham, Berkshire, England, and Concord, California, USA.


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So, until Monday April 23…

Posted by shel on 04/16 at 06:10 AM
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Monday, April 09, 2012

The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #646: April 9, 2012

Content summary: FIR Interview with Sprint’s Sara Folkerts is up; Shel and Neville will be in Amsterdam this week at the 2012 International Social Media and PR Summit; FIR Tweetup in Amsterdam on Tuesday evening #firtweetup; News That Fits: Pinmania - ten ideas for businesses using Pinterest, Pinterest is the third most popular social networking site in the US, Kotex earns praise for first full-blown Pinterest campaign, Homes.com white paper on what works best on Pinterest, Pinterest is driving sales, magazines racing to capitalize on Pinterest, VentureBeat list of Pinterest clones; Ragan promo; Dan York reports on a Wall Street Journal report on privacy and Facebook apps, and more; the rise of e-reading; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Michael Netzley reports from Singapore on the going rates for buying positive news coverage in China, and more; listener comments; TemboSocial promo; Canadian managers still skeptical of remote work; music from 3Kisses; and more.

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For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report for April 9, 2012: A 72-minute podcast recorded live from Wokingham, Berkshire, England, and Concord, California, USA.


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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 +1 253 780 9125 (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.

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So, until Monday April 16…

Posted by neville on 04/09 at 12:30 AM
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Monday, April 02, 2012

The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #645: April 2, 2012

Content summary: Neville and Shel are both traveling, but Shel’s solo this week with a contribution from Neville; two new interviews are up, one with Dachis Group CTO Erik Huddleston and the other with PulsePoint Group’s Michael Gale and Jacklyn Allgayer about the new study, “The Socially Engaged Enterprise;” another interview is coming later this week with Sara Folkerts of Sprint on the mobile company’s program to train employees to represent the organization in social channels; a new blog worth looking at is PR Examples; Shel’s meeting with PRSA’s Keith Trivitt in New York; News That Fits: as access to information increases, trust is declining, yet CEOs who tweet are trusted more; Ragan promo; Michael Netzley’s Asia Report, including a look at the Melbourne Mandate from the Institute for Public Relations; are communicators ready to begin producing mobile content?; Media Monitoring Minute from CustomScoop; Facebook is reportedly preparing a major upgrade of its search utility to produce robust social search; Dan York’s report; TemboSocial promo; games and gamification make inroads as the U.S. State Department sponsors a crowdsourcing game to identify five (fake) criminals around the world; music from The Fire Apes; and more.

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For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report for April 2, 2012: A 61-minute podcast recorded live from Concord, California.


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So, until Monday April 9…

Posted by shel on 04/02 at 04:07 AM
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Monday, March 26, 2012

The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #644: March 26, 2012

Content summary: Shel’s travelling, Neville solo recording this week; FIR Interview with PRSA’s Gerard Corbett posted; FIR Book Review of For Immediate Release (no kidding) by Ronn Torossian posted; RSS feed problems with the last episode fixed; News That Fits: blogs on the rise; Ragan promo; Neville and Dan York in conversation: what Dan’s doing this week in Paris with the IETF, the whole Facebook password privacy kerfuffle, and more; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; listener comments on Pinterest’s revised terms of use, and more; New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says social media can hurt governing; Michael Netzley reports from Singapore on topical communication issues in Asia; TemboSocial promo; who do you think "owns" social?; discount for FIR listeners going to The Social Customer conference in London; news about next week’s show; Shel and Neville are at the 2012 International Social Media and PR Summit in Amsterdam on April 11-12; music from Sunspot; and more.

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For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report for March 26, 2012: A 77-minute podcast recorded live from Wokingham, Berkshire, England.


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So, until Monday April 2…

Posted by neville on 03/26 at 01:37 AM
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Monday, March 19, 2012

The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #643: March 19, 2012

Content summary: Shel’s travelling, so Neville’s hosting this week’s episode solo; who would like to record a segment with Neville for next week’s show?; new comment line number for North America: +1 253 780 9125 (and thanks, Donnna Papacosta, for recording new feedback segment); News That Fits: Cision launches Social Influencer Search; Ragan promo: The 2012 International Social Media & PR Summit, Amsterdam, April 11-12, Shel and Neville there too; Facebook timeline for pages are no big burden for small businesses; listener comments on Facebook timeline for pages, FIR length, and more; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; LinkedIn tips for over-50 job seekers; no report from Michael Netzley in Singapore this week; Dan York reports on the ICANN meeting in Costa Rica, and more; TemboSocial promo; Audacity 2.0 released; music from CoEd Pageant; and more.

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For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report for March 19, 2012: A 57-minute podcast recorded live from Wokingham, Berkshire, England.


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So, until Monday March 26…

Posted by neville on 03/19 at 12:09 AM
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Monday, March 12, 2012

The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #642: March 12, 2012

Content summary: Two new FIR Book Review podcasts now up; is FIR too long?; News That Fits: Is public relations the profession of liars? asks PRSA’s Gerard Corbett; Michael Netzley reports from Singapore on China’s social networks hit by censorship, and more; Ragan promo from SxSW; law firms and financial services making inroads into social media; listener comments; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; how big a problem is Twitter hashtag spam?; Dan York reports on live-streaming an ICANN workshop from Costa Rica, and more; TemboSocial promo; is SMS dying, and what could that mean for businesses using SMS?; music from LaZae; and more.

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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 January 23, 2012: A 78-minute podcast recorded live from Concord, California, USA, and Wokingham, Berkshire, England.


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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.

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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 +1 206 222 2803 (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.

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So, until Monday March 19…

Posted by neville on 03/12 at 11:38 AM
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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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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 March 5, 2012: An 81-minute podcast recorded live from Wokingham, Berkshire, England, and Concord, California, USA.


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 +1 206 222 2803 (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.

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So, until Monday March 12…

Posted by neville on 03/05 at 11:24 AM
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