Hobson and Holtz
The Hobson & Holtz Report
Monday, September 26, 2011
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #618: September 26, 2011
Content summary: Some immediate changes to format as a result of feedback from the listener survey: topic links as Delicious bookmarks, News That Fits up front and listener comments moved back; Ragan promo; News That Fits: discussion on Facebook changes and implications for communicators including listeners’ opinions; Dan York’s report also on Facebook with a focus on the OpenGraphAPI and control of our data; listener comments and discussion; a teaser of the results from the FIR Listener Survey 2011 and what’s next; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Michael Netzley reports from Singapore on Asian perspectives on Facebook changes and more; PollStream promo; how to comment; music from Karoline Hausted; and more.
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For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, for September 26, 2011: A 76-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.
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Monday, September 19, 2011
The Hobson and Holtz - Podcast #617: September 19, 2011
Content summary: Dave Fleet, VP of Edelman Digital in Toronto, is our guest co-host. There’s one day left to share your thoughts about FIR by taking the 2011 listener survey. An FIR interview with Jillian Bear of Morton’s The Steakhouse is up. Shel and Dave have a brief discussion. Listener comments. Ragan promo. News That Fits: Facebook launches a “subscribe” button and Mark Zuckerberg converts his 5-plus million fans to subscribers; BART and a California water agency called out for attempting to produce fake news; Michael Netzley’s Asia Report; the Media Monitoring Minute from CustomScoop; a crisis of reputation for UBS in the rogue trader scandal; German state bans Facebook for business over privacy issues; Dan York’s report; PollStream promo; American Bankers Association magazine offers seven steps to effective social media risk management. Music from Rise Against. And more.
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For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, for September 12, 2011: A 77-minute podcast recorded live from Concord, California, USA, and Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
About our guest co-host
Dave Fleet leads Edelman’s Digital practice in Toronto. Before joining Edelman, Dave developed and executed strategic and social media communications programs for some of North America’s largest organizations, and also worked for nearly five years within strategic communications in the public sector. His blog, davefleet.com, is dedicated to exploring the intersection of public relations, social media and marketing and he tweets at @davefleet.
Links for the blogs, individuals, companies and organizations we discussed or mentioned in the show are posted to the FIR Show Links pages at The New PR Wiki. You can contribute - see the show notes home page for info.
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 September 19…
Monday, September 12, 2011
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #616: September 12, 2011
Content summary: Congratulations to Edelman for winning the Twitter PR account; take the FIR Listener Survey 2011 and share your views about FIR; new FIR Book Review posted; FIR Interviews coming with Mark Hillary and Morton’s, new FIR Interviews posted with Jeremiah Owyang, HSBC’s Betony Taylor and Aden Davies, Mark Dollins, and Glenn Gaudet; announcing GaggleAmp for FIR; promo codes for FIR listeners for the Social Intranet Summit in Vancouver, and for Social Media Marketing and Monitoring 2011 in London and New York; listener comments discussion; Ragan promo; News That Fits: the half life of social media links is 3 hours says Bitly research, Dan York reports on YouTube founders’ plans for Delicious and more, the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop, Twitter a new tool to predict share price trends, Pollstream promo, Michael Netzley reports from Singapore on Global Alliance’s World PR Forum in Australia and more; Dave Fleet guest co-hosts with Shel in next week’s show; music from Secret Skwirl; and more.
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For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, for September 12, 2011: A 67-minute podcast recorded live from Wokingham, Berkshire, England, and Concord, California, USA.
Links for the blogs, individuals, companies and organizations we discussed or mentioned in the show are posted to the FIR Show Links pages at The New PR Wiki. You can contribute - see the show notes home page for info.
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 September 19…
Monday, September 05, 2011
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #615: September 5, 2011
Content summary: Vote for FIR on Podcast Alley; it’s Labor Day in the US; Lionel Menchaca interview is up, interviews coming with Jeremiah Owyang, HSBC, Mark Dollins, Mark Hillary; game-based marketing book review is coming; Neville’s impressions of last week’s Ealing Tweetup; the FIR Listener Survey 2011 is ready; listener comments discussion; Ragan promo; News That Fits: HSBC launches social media newsroom in the UK, Michael Netzley in Singapore reports on corruption in India and more, the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop, the rise of the social enterprise, PRSA and CIPR initiatives on the state of ethics in PR, Pollstream promo, Dan York reports on weight-loss exercising and more; music from Black Furies; and more.
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For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, for September 5, 2011: A 65-minute podcast recorded live from Concord, California, USA, and Wokingham, Berkshire, England.
Links for the blogs, individuals, companies and organizations we discussed or mentioned in the show are posted to the FIR Show Links pages at The New PR Wiki. You can contribute - see the show notes home page for info.
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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Monday, August 29, 2011
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #614: August 29, 2011
Content summary: Shel’s in San Diego; listen to this week’s Friday Rock Show with Neville as guest presenter; listener comments discussion; Ragan promo; News That Fits: community management trends from Altimeter’s Jeremiah Owyang, Dan York reports on the Irene social media hurricane and more, the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop, was Irene a hurricane of media hype?, the Mortons/Peter Shankman airport steak event stimulates multiple-channel conversations, Michael Netzley reports from Singapore, Pollstream promo, Boehringer is a good example of how pharma can confidently embrace Facebook; music from The 5 Man Army; and more.
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For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, for August 29, 2011: A 56-minute podcast recorded live from Wokingham, Berkshire, England.
Links for the blogs, individuals, companies and organizations we discussed or mentioned in the show are posted to the FIR Show Links pages at The New PR Wiki. You can contribute - see the show notes home page for info.
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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Monday, August 22, 2011
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #613: August 22, 2011
Content summary: FIR listener survey live next week; Shel’s video interview with Lee Hopkins is up; some impressions of Asia from Shel’s three-country trip for IABC last week; Eric Schwartzman’s workshops cancelled outside North America; no Michael Netzley report this week; SNCR call for entries for the 6th Annual Excellence in New Communications Awards; listener comments discussion; Ragan promo; News That Fits: report on mobile (it’s remaking the industry, QR code use gains ground, web apps gain ground on native apps), Dan York reports on Google Motorola HP and more, the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop, how can iPads lead to better customer service as British Airways and others experiment, Hangouts emerging as source of greatest innovation on Google+, Pollstream promo, Neville’s solo on next week’s show as Shel’s on the road again; music from The Birdinumnums; and more.
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For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, for August 22, 2011: A 71-minute podcast recorded live from Concord, California, USA, and Wokingham, Berkshire, England.
Links for the blogs, individuals, companies and organizations we discussed or mentioned in the show are posted to the FIR Show Links pages at The New PR Wiki. You can contribute - see the show notes home page for info.
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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Sunday, August 14, 2011
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #612: August 15, 2011
Content summary: Shel’s on a trip through Asia for IABC; Larry Weber FIR Book Review is up; listener survey update; listener comments discussion; Ragan promo; News That Fits: the UK riots and your opinions on the British government’s thinking about restricting access to and use of social media, Michael Netzley reports from Singapore, the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop, LinkedIn’s ham-fisted launch of social ads but at least we can opt out, Pollstream promo, Dan York’s report, the FCC announces plan to update 911 to receive texts and video; Shel and Neville together as usual next week; music from The Flavor Foundation; and more.
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For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, for August 15, 2011: A 66-minute podcast recorded live from Wokingham, Berkshire, England.
Links for the blogs, individuals, companies and organizations we discussed or mentioned in the show are posted to the FIR Show Links pages at The New PR Wiki. You can contribute - see the show notes home page for info.
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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