Sunday, November 13, 2005
Speakers & Speeches: November 3, 2005 - CiB & IABC UK Panel Discussion
This panel discussion in London, organized by the British Association of Communicators in Business and the IABC UK Chapter, was titled “Join the Virtual Revolution.” The organizers described the event:
“Digital media is changing the way we communicate. Just as we’ve got our heads around the internet, email and mobile technology, a new wave of tools are becoming increasingly relevant – blogs, wikis, podcasts, RSS and integrated mobile devices. What are these tools and how can we use them to communicate with audiences? More importantly, how can audiences communicate with us? And if everyone is a communicator, how can we control the message? The on-demand, digital world offers communicators new and exciting opportunities and challenges.”
The panel was moderated by Ben Hunt, Editor of the Financial Times’ Digital Business. In order of their presentations, the panelists were Neville Hobson, communicator and FIR co-host; Neil McIntosh, Assistant Editor of Guardian Unlimited; and Euan Semple, BBC Director of KM Solutions.
This 90-minute podcast has been produced with the permission of the organizers and participants. Download the file here (MP3, 37MB), or sign up for the Speakers & Speeches RSS feed to get it and future such podcasts automatically. For automatic synchronization with your iPod or other digital player, you’ll also need a podcatcher such as the free iPodder, DopplerRadio, iTunes or Yahoo! Podcasts, or an RSS aggregator that supports podcasts such as FeedDemon. To receive all For Immediate Release podcasts including the twice-weekly Hobson & Holtz Report, sign up for the full RSS feed.
Additional download: PowerPoint presentation (7.8Mb). Requires Microsoft PowerPoint or free PowerPoint viewer for Windows.
Time Stamps:
- 00:02 Neville introduces this podcast
- 03:37 General event introduction
- 05:53 Theme and panel introduction by Ben Hunt
- 10:09 Presentation - Neville Hobson
- 30:54 Presentation - Neil McIntosh
- 46:01 Presentation - Euan Semple
- 61:04 General discussion moderated by Ben Hunt
- 88:38 About the event, this podcast and where to find For Immediate Release
Thursday, November 10, 2005
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #84: November 10, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments (getting online when traveling abroad); strife in podcast land; a lawsuit against Apple goes international; don’t play non-podsafe music: the warning from Adam Curry’s recent experience; blaming bloggers for rioting in France; eBay introduces more RSS feeds; Dan York’s Report; search strategies for PR; questions from a Financial Times feature on blogs; exploding the myths about podcast advertising.
Show notes for November 10, 2005
Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 72-minute conversation recorded live from Hawaii, USA, and almost live from Budapest, Hungary.
Download the file here (MP3, 30MB), or sign up for the RSS feed to get it and future shows automatically. (For automatic synchronization with your iPod or other digital player, you’ll also need a podcatcher such as the free iPodder, DopplerRadio, iTunes or Yahoo! Podcasts, or an RSS aggregator that supports podcasts such as FeedDemon).
[Show notes OPML file to come]: Get the show notes on your own PC, Mac, PDA or other device. To use this file, we suggest trying Dave Winer’s OPML Editor (for Windows).
In this Edition:
Intro:
- 00:28 Shel introduces the show; Hawaii travelogue
- 02:28 What the show’s about; what’s in this edition; show notes
Listeners’ comments discussion:
- 04:02 Mark Wright on the familiar problem to most of us with trying to get online when traveling abroad on business or on holiday, and the startling bill for connectivity he received from Vodafone
News & Features:
- 09:59 Strife in the world of podcasting - emerging factions and ruffled feathers over the Portable Media Expo and Adam Curry according to Wired magazine; what business podcasters should focus on
- 16:49 The iPod nano lawsuit goes international - what might this mean for the iPod brand?
- 21:38 Don’t include copyrighted music in your podcasts! Adam Curry’s recent experience is a warning of the real risks you run if you do
- 26:27 The authorities in France say that some blogs have played a negative role in the riots and social unrest in France; Skyblog takes steps to block “inflammatory postings”
- 30:28 eBay adds new RSS feeds so buyers and sellers can see when new items are listed
- 32:06 Dan York‘s Report - lack of time to listen to podcasts, the blog backlash, wiki spam issues, my new podcasting project: Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast
- 39:57 Using search for PR and reputation management - the increasing importance of search engine optimization
- 47:10 “Who’s afraid of the big bad blog?” asks the Financial Times, prompting Neville’s critical post about blog backlash and subsequent questions from the FT’s Kevin Allison - what answers do you have for those questions?
- 61:52 Addressing the myths about advertising in podcasts
Outro:
- 65:09 Shel outros the show; how to give your feedback; show notes; we’ve both finished reading the Naked Conversations galley, so book review coming soon
- 66:14 The music - Chasing Echoes from Crush via Podsafe Music Network
Links for the blogs, individuals, companies and organizations we discussed or mentioned in the show are now posted to the FIR Show Links pages at The New PR Wiki. You can contribute - see the home page for info.
If you have comments or questions about this show, or suggestions for our future shows, email us at fircomments@gmail.com, or call the Comment Line at +1 206 984 0931. You can email your comments, questions and suggestions as MP3 file attachments, if you wish (max. 5Mb attachment, please!). We’ll be happy to see how we can include your audio contribution in a show.
So, until Monday, November 14…
Monday, November 07, 2005
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #83: November 7, 2005
Content summary: How we recorded today’s show; views on Hawaii; listeners’ comments; RSS discussion; The Spinfluencer interviews Alex Ben Block; the ousting of the Financial Times’ editor; US Democrats defeat blogger immunity bill; new survey on employee communication; how market researchers can use blogs; Lee Hopkins’ report; and more.
Show notes for November 7, 2005
Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, an 86-minute conversation recorded live from Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and from Hawaii, USA.
Download the file here (MP3, 35MB), or sign up for the RSS feed to get it and future shows automatically. (For automatic synchronization with your iPod or other digital player, you’ll also need a podcatcher such as the free iPodder, DopplerRadio, iTunes or Yahoo! Podcasts, or an RSS aggregator that supports podcasts such as FeedDemon).
[Show notes OPML file to come]: Get the show notes on your own PC, Mac, PDA or other device. To use this file, we suggest trying Dave Winer’s OPML Editor (for Windows).
In this Edition:
- Detailed show notes to come
Links for the blogs, individuals, companies and organizations we discussed or mentioned in the show are now posted to the FIR Show Links pages at The New PR Wiki. You can contribute - see the home page for info.
If you have comments or questions about this show, or suggestions for our future shows, email us at fircomments@gmail.com, or call the Comment Line at +1 206 984 0931. You can email your comments, questions and suggestions as MP3 file attachments, if you wish (max. 5Mb attachment, please!). We’ll be happy to see how we can include your audio contribution in a show.
So, until Thursday November 10…
Thursday, November 03, 2005
Trouble getting FIR?
Update 4-Nov: The problem was resolved by Libsyn yesterday evening. Turns out the problem was to do with Libsyn’s domain name listing in Whois. To cut a long story short, Libsys say they’re changing their domain registrar. So, you should be able to retrieve the shows as per normal including via iTunes and Yahoo! Podcasts. I just manually downloaded #82 from the normal link, and that was fine. If you do continue having a problem, use the link Shel included in this post, above. - Neville.
The service that hosts and serves up our audio files, LibSyn, is sort of out of commission right now, per their message on their home page:
We are having a DNS issue that may be out of our hands. We have contacted our registrar who responded that we may be affected by issues with some of their “core servers” that announce the IP address for our domain. We are working to resolve this issue and will keep you guys updated.
You can get to LibSyn at their dot-org address (www.libsyn.org), but that won’t help you get our podcast. Check back every now and then to see if LibSyn has resolved the problem. As soon as Neville or I find that the issue has been resolved, we’ll add a follow-up to this post so you’ll know that FIR is once again available and ready for download from LibSyn.
Wednesday, November 02, 2005
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #82: November 2, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments; Euroblogs survey; Steve Rubel and the cancer blog; speaking engagements; the anti-women ad executive who resigned; Bacon’s cluelessness; Panasonic’s character blog; Arla Foods three blogs; Dan York’s Report; pimping for podcast votes; and more.
Show notes for November 2, 2005
Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, an 84-minute conversation recorded live from Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and almost live from Hawaii, USA.
Download the file here (MP3, 34MB), or sign up for the RSS feed to get it and future shows automatically. (For automatic synchronization with your iPod or other digital player, you’ll also need a podcatcher such as the free iPodder, DopplerRadio, iTunes or Yahoo! Podcasts, or an RSS aggregator that supports podcasts such as FeedDemon).
[Show notes OPML file to come]: Get the show notes on your own PC, Mac, PDA or other device. To use this file, we suggest trying Dave Winer’s OPML Editor (for Windows).
In this Edition:
- Detailed show notes to come
Links for the blogs, individuals, companies and organizations we discussed or mentioned in the show are now posted to the FIR Show Links pages at The New PR Wiki. You can contribute - see the home page for info.
If you have comments or questions about this show, or suggestions for our future shows, email us at fircomments@gmail.com, or call the Comment Line at +1 206 984 0931. You can email your comments, questions and suggestions as MP3 file attachments, if you wish (max. 5Mb attachment, please!). We’ll be happy to see how we can include your audio contribution in a show.
So, until Monday November 7…
Monday, October 31, 2005
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #81: October 31, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments discussion; launch interview with Jen McClure of Society for New Communciations Research; Forbes magazine attacks blogs; minding the conversation gap; Lee Hopkins report.
Show notes for October 31, 2005
Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, an 86-minute conversation recorded live from Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Concord, California, USA.
Download the file here (MP3, 35MB), or sign up for the RSS feed to get it and future shows automatically. (For automatic synchronization with your iPod or other digital player, you’ll also need a podcatcher such as the free iPodder, DopplerRadio, iTunes or Yahoo! Podcasts, or an RSS aggregator that supports podcasts such as FeedDemon).
[Show notes OPML file to come]: Get the show notes on your own PC, Mac, PDA or other device. To use this file, we suggest trying Dave Winer’s OPML Editor (for Windows).
In this Edition:
- Detailed show notes to come
Links for the blogs, individuals, companies and organizations we discussed or mentioned in the show are now posted to the FIR Show Links pages at The New PR Wiki. You can contribute - see the home page for info.
If you have comments or questions about this show, or suggestions for our future shows, email us at fircomments@gmail.com, or call the Comment Line at +1 206 984 0931. You can email your comments, questions and suggestions as MP3 file attachments, if you wish (max. 5Mb attachment, please!). We’ll be happy to see how we can include your audio contribution in a show.
So, until Thursday November 3…
Thursday, October 27, 2005
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #80: October 27, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments discussion (creating a reverse thesaurus; what’s in a name: ‘business continuity planning’; more on hearing about blogs; Libsyn glitches with podcast downloads); Yahoo RSS white paper; faux research from Advertising Age; the use of blogs during labour disputes; TypePad has service problems from rapid growth; OpenOffice 2.0 is out; Waxmail for voice email; Microsoft joins Yahoo and Google with a book project; Dan York’s report; Shel’s report on the CPRF panel in New York; upcoming FIR book reviews.
Show notes for October 27, 2005
Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, an 86-minute conversation recorded live from Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Concord, California, USA.
Download the file here (MP3, 35MB), or sign up for the RSS feed to get it and future shows automatically. (For automatic synchronization with your iPod or other digital player, you’ll also need a podcatcher such as the free iPodder, DopplerRadio, iTunes or Yahoo! Podcasts, or an RSS aggregator that supports podcasts such as FeedDemon).
[Show notes OPML file to come]: Get the show notes on your own PC, Mac, PDA or other device. To use this file, we suggest trying Dave Winer’s OPML Editor (for Windows).
In this Edition:
Intro:
- 00:36 Neville introduces the show; what the show’s about; what’s in this edition; show notes
Listeners’ comments discussion:
- 02:40 Josh Hallett suggests creating a reverse thesaurus to help figure out buzzwords and jargon
- 03:17 Bryan Person thinks ‘business continuity planning’ is a silly corporate-speak term
- 04:27 Donna Papacosta isn’t surprised at what Shel heard at the IABC Canada conference re blogs, and says we should keep on evangelizing
- 08:07 Clarence Jones reports on difficulties he’s had with downloading FIR, and other shows hosted on Libsyn
News:
- 14:00 Yahoo’s white paper ‘RSS: Crossing Into the Mainstream’ (PDF) presents some interesting facts on RSS awareness and usage
- 23:35 Advertising Age astonishes with faux research on time-wasting in US business by employees reading blogs
- 32:28 Hospital workers’ strike illustrates the power of blogs as communication channels in labour disputes: “Strikers are using text messaging to communicate on the picket lines and picket-line leaders are coming home at night and describing what it was like that day”
- 37:29 TypePad‘s growing pains impact service to users - will communicating about the problems with promises to resolve them help retain customer loyalty?
Features:
- 48:48 OpenOffice 2.0 is out - how does the free open source software suite compare to Microsoft Office? Good, we think, but it does eat up your PC’s resources according to ZDNet
- 54:41 Voice email with Waxmail - is this the easiest audio email-messaging tool yet?
- 58:42 Microsoft starts a book indexing project - unlike Google’s, this is an opt-in system for copyright owners; why don’t Google, Yahoo and Microsoft collaborate on book indexing?
- 61:15 Dan York‘s Report - voice over IP security alliance threat taxonomy wiki, podcast solutions book, K7.Net, DomainDirect, my new experimental TypePad blog
- 69:03 Shel talks about his experience in New York yesterday as a participant in the Council of Public Relations Firms’ panel discussion on ‘Straddling the Fault in a Shifting Media Landscape: New Roles for PR’ with Richard Edelman, Stephen Baker and Ross Mayfield (session recorded as an FIR podcast for download)
Outro:
- 75:38 Shel outros the show; how to give your feedback; upcoming book reviews
- 79:17 The music - Beneath Your Surface by Elizabeth Lohninger Quartet via Podsafe Music Network
Links for the blogs, individuals, companies and organizations we discussed or mentioned in the show are now posted to the FIR Show Links pages at The New PR Wiki. You can contribute - see the home page for info.
If you have comments or questions about this show, or suggestions for our future shows, email us at fircomments@gmail.com, or call the Comment Line at +1 206 984 0931. You can email your comments, questions and suggestions as MP3 file attachments, if you wish (max. 5Mb attachment, please!). We’ll be happy to see how we can include your audio contribution in a show.
So, until Monday October 31…
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