Hobson and Holtz
The Hobson & Holtz Report
Monday, May 09, 2011
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #598: May 9, 2011
Content summary: FIR listener survey coming soon; FIR promo: free tickets to Social Media Marketing & Monitoring 2011 conference in San Francisco on May 23; our best wishes to CC Chapman as he recovers from surgery; listener comments discussion; Ragan promo; News That Fits: PR industry fills vacuum left by shrinking newsrooms, how Twitter lets people but not the media flout super-injunctions, special report from Bob LeDrew about Canadian blogger Derek K. Miller who died last week, the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop, UK journalists’ tweets to be regulated, Michael Netzley reports from Singapore on the country’s election and more, it’s time to pay attention to social gaming aka "gamification", Pollstream promo, the media in Slovakia goes behind a paywall, Dan York reports on Twitter and RSS and more; music by Max Min; and more.
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For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, for May 9, 2011: A 76-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.
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So, until Monday May 16…
Monday, May 02, 2011
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #597: May 2, 2011
Content summary: Today’s news topics dominated by the killing of Osama bin Laden; vote for FIR on Podcast Alley; FIR Book Review posted: Social Location Marketing by Simon Salt; recording of FIR Live #22 posted; Pollstream poll results and new poll; IABC’s Handbook of Organizational Communication 2nd edition is out; Shel and Neville recording IABC World Conference podcasts; listener comments discussion; Ragan promo; News That Fits - News of Osama bin Laden’s death spreads like wildfire via social channels, the seven stages of news in a Twitter and Facebook era, the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop, Dan York reports on Osama bin Laden news and media frenzy and more, study says that the media have no influence on reputation, Renault and Glamour magazine get smart with customers’ Facebook ‘Likes’, Pollstream promo, Michael Netzley reports from Singapore on New York Times feature on wikis and education and more, is traffic from social sites less engaged?; music from The High; and more.
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For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, for May 2, 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 8133 9844 (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, April 25, 2011
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #596: April 25, 2011
Content summary: Three FIR interviews posted: Lynnette Young on Blogworld’s podcast pavilion, Sean Duffy on WeFeedback.org and social media, and Philip Sheldrake on The Business of Influence; FIR Live panel on Saturday April 30 discusses social media analytics; listener comments discussion; Ragan promo; News That Fits: insurance for the risks of Twitter and Facebook, Michael Netzley reports from Singapore on talent shortage and more, the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop, overdoing the Facebook ‘Like’ button, the Royal Wedding global internet event, PollStream promo, Dan York reports on Amazon’s cloud outage and more, Empire Avenue: the shiny new object; music from Sunspot; and more.
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For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, for April 25, 2011: A 73-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 8133 9844 (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 May 2…
Monday, April 18, 2011
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #595: April 18, 2011
Content summary: Next FIR Live on April 30; upcoming FIR Interview with Lynette Young; shoutout to Lee Hopkins and Andrea Matthews on their new podcast; listener comments discussion; Ragan promo; News That Fits: social media statistics round-up, Dan York reports on Cisco shuts down Flip and more, the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop, will the common sense of Jason Falls’ "PR Guide to Email Pitching" make any difference?, The Huffington Post lawsuit, Pollstream promo, implications of the EU ‘cookie law’ that comes into effect next month; music from The High; and more.
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For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, for April 18, 2011: A 68-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 8133 9844 (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 25…
Monday, April 11, 2011
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #594: April 11, 2011
Content summary: Vote for FIR on Podcast Alley; diary date: next FIR Live on April 30 on social media analytics; listener comments discussion; Ragan promo; News That Fits: marketers get ready for the ‘Validation Era’, Dan York reports on Mediasift licenses Twitter firehose and more, the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop, is mass media winning in the social media revolution?, Michael Netzley reports from Singapore on global corporations must rethink Asian engagement strategies, CIPR launches The Conversation, Pollstream promo; music by Supraluxe; and more.
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For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, for April 11, 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 8133 9844 (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, April 04, 2011
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #593: April 4, 2011
Content summary: Congratulations to Robert French on the third anniversary of PR Open Mic; FIR Interview with Azeem Azhar, Founder and CEO of PeerIndex, posted; listener comments discussion; Ragan promo; News that Fits: GE, the New York Times, Henry Blodgett and Twitter, Michael Netzley reports from Singapore, the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop, the rise of the "second internet" and what it means, brands using content curation to bolster thought leadership, Pollstream promo, Dan York reports on the Salesforce.com acquisition of Radian6 and more; music from 7 Days to Perfection; 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 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 April 4, 2011: A 63-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 8133 9844 (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 11…
Monday, March 28, 2011
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #592: March 28, 2011
Content summary: New FIR Interviews posted with ClearWire’s Adam Parker and Edelman Japan’s Ross Rowbury; FIR Interview coming with Azeem Azhar, founder of Peer Index; congratulations to social media pioneer Christopher Barger who moves from GM to Porter Novelli’s Voce; listener comments discussion; Ragan promo; News That Fits: Let your peers rate your PR influence says Deirdre Breakenridge, Dan York reports on LinkedIn’s brilliant PR stunt as it marks 100 million members, and more, the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop, do high-profile failures and firings signal the end of social media?, Pollstream promo, Michael Netzley reports from Singapore; music from Sinfonia Electronique; 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 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 28, 2011: A 65-minute podcast recorded live from New York, New York, 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 8133 9844 (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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