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Monday, July 07, 2008

The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #360: July 7, 2008

Content summary: Introducing the FIR community browser toolbar; next FIR Live on July 26; upcoming FIR Interviews; discussion: the dispersed staff; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: Turner Entertainment’s multimedia campaign aims to raise the profile for South Africa, Twitter applied to blood donation, privacy challenge to Google Street View in the UK, how to live-blog a conference; Michael Netzley reports from Singapore on Facebook’s challenges with its Chinese-language site; listeners’ comments discussion; music from Jen Elliott; and more.

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For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, for July 7, 2008: A 60-minute podcast recorded live from Concord, California, USA, and Wokingham, Berkshire, England, and Concord, California, USA.

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Thursday, July 03, 2008

The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #359: July 3, 2008

Content summary: Shel and Ryan Williams have reviewed “Groundswell;” an interview with the Media Bloggers Association’s Robert Cox is set for next Tuesday; Dan York reports on identi.ca, among other things; CustomScoop presents the Media Monitoring Minute; News That Fits: UK opens gigabytes of data to a public mashup competition; UK and US unions merge to form a global “super union,” Rob Paterson uses Ning.com for project management, CIGNA creates a virtual world of health care; listener comments; music from The TVees; and more.

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Monday, June 30, 2008

The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #358: June 30, 2008

Content summary: Neville’s in Manchester; Michael Netzley reports from Singapore on a Text 100 survey of Asian bloggers, and on a professional conference in Singapore and an academic conference discussing China’s Internet; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: Neville’s reflections on Chicago and the Social Media Academic Summit 2008, how social networking saved New Orleans, preparing to mobilize your company; Heidi Miller reviews TypePad Mobile; listeners’ comments discussion; music from Geoff Smith; and more.

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Thursday, June 26, 2008

The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #357: June 26, 2008

Content summary:Neville’s at Edelman New Media Academic Summit; Shel wraps up IABC’s international conferencein New York; Neville talks about the summit in Chicago and the home baseball team, the Chicago Cubs; CustomScoop’s Media Monitoring Minute; Dan York’s report; News That Fits includes a look at Facebook and Visa teaming up to create the Small Business Network, Facebook’s bans of the Top Friends app, MySpace’s launch of the API that allows outside sides to pull data, MySpace’s partnership with NBC and MSNBC to host a contest to give away journalistic credentials to the two major political conventions in the US, surveys on social media in business and bloggers in Asia-Pacific, journalists’ move to PR and Neville on his visit to the Financial Times; listener comments; music from 50 Foot Wave; and more..

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For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, for June 23, 2008: A 62-minute podcast recorded live from Concord, California, USA, and almost live from Chicago, Illinois, USA.

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Monday, June 23, 2008

The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #356: June 23, 2008

Content summary:Shel’s at the IABC conference in New York; two new interviews are up, including one from PR Junction; Michael Netzley reports on apologies in South Korea; Media Monitoring Minute; One-Minute News is gone, it’s now “News That Fits”: brands are not winning friends on social networks, social network research is coming in with one on the value for education, UK journalists lead the way with blogs and videos, an update on the AP copyright kerfuffle; listeners’ comments; music from The Urgencies; and more.

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Thursday, June 19, 2008

The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #355: June 19, 2008

Content summary: Upcoming FIR Interview; free ticket on offer to KMP’s London conference; Dan York reports on ScreenFlow, seesmic and Skype 4 beta; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; discussion: AP’s rocky relationship with the blogosphere; US workers online study; UK senior civil servants to get Facebook lessons; Ricardo on Spanglish; listeners’ comments including discussion on Eric Schwartzman’s suggestion that blogger relations should avoid the email back channel; news about next week’s shows; music from Spanking Charlene; and more.

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Monday, June 16, 2008

The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #354: June 16, 2008

Content summary: Shel on the road; latest FIR Live call-in show; dealing with a troll in FriendFeed; Michael Netzley reports from Singapore on China’s good PR following the earthquake, digital media in South Korea fueling public debate, the website from Verge Singapore; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; discussion: Neville and Bernie Goldbach on the EU Lisbon Treaty and Ireland’s ‘no’ referendum vote; if you’re a PR agency and don’t blog, do you have credibility?; court orders employee to disclose LinkedIn contacts; European survey on impact of the internet on consumer decisions; listeners’ comments discussion; music from Moscow Girls; and more.

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