Thursday, September 15, 2005

The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #68: September 15, 2005

Content summary: Listeners’ comments discussion; new research from IABC Foundation; Google Blog Search; Yahoo! Mail; PodcastCon UK; a how-two ebook on podcasting; new white paper on corporate blogging; Chrysler media blog.

Show notes for September 15, 2005

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Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 73-minute conversation recorded live from Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and New York City, USA.

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 or iTunes, or an RSS aggregator that supports podcasts such as FeedDemon).

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In this Edition:

Detailed show notes and list of links to come.

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 September 19…

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Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Interview: Gerry Murray, President IABC Belgium - September 14, 2005

In this edition of For Immediate Release podcast interviews, Neville enjoyed a 47-minute conversation with Gerry Murray, President of IABC Belgium, and a management and communication consultant. Topics discussed include: development plans for IABC Belgium, the new Chapter website and new President’s blog, the challenges in engaging members throughout Europe, professional development opportunities for IABC members.

About our conversation partner:

Gerry Murray runs The Wide Agency, an international management and communications consultancy based in Belgium. The Wide Agency focuses on effective communication through strategy creation, project management, content provision and coaching.

Prior to that he spent nine years at the world headquarters of DHL, the express logistics company, holding a variety of roles in marketing, strategic planning, investor relations and corporate communications. His early commercial experience was gained in sales and marketing management in the publishing industry.

Gerry was elected President of IABC Belgium in July 2005 and blogs at The Captain’s Log. Previously he held the position of the Chapter’s Communications Chair.

An Irish national, he has a BA in French & Linguistics from University College Dublin, an MBA from Manchester Business School and holds the status of Chartered Marketer from the Chartered Institute of Marketing in the UK.

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Interview Segment Time Points:

  • 00:26 Neville introduces the interview
  • 03:33 Gerry outlines his background: what he did and what he does today
  • 07:13 Review of IABC Belgium and its development in recent years
  • 09:54 IABC Belgium celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2006
  • 11:10 The Captain’s Log and the new Chapter website
  • 22:41 Gerry: “We have an obligation as an association to be exploring new things”
  • 23:05: A series of events planned called ‘disruptive communicators’ looking at how new things add value to the communication process
  • 25:01 Gerry: “How can we use podcasting to preview events?”
  • 27:02 Getting involved at the Region level: Chapter development and relations, developing a Job Bank
  • 31:50 Helping developing-Chapters use the web
  • 34:19 European Leadership Institute meetings
  • 37:18 The challenges in engaging members throughout Europe
  • 38:56 Eurocomm - a tailor-made professional development event for communicators in Europe
  • 44:00 Conversation wrap up
  • 45:03 About this podcast and where to find For Immediate Release.

Links for the individuals and organizations we discussed or mentioned in the conversation:

Gerry Murray, IABC, IABC Belgium, IABC Europe Middle East Region, DHL, Lyndon Hrytzak, The Captain’s Log, Elizabeth MacDonald, Anton Rath, IABC Cafe, Sam Rowe, Movable Type, Shel Holtz, Top 10 New Technologies for Internal Communicators, Barbara Gibson, Kristen Sukalac, IABC UK, IABC France, IABC Russia, IABC Switzerland, IABC Scandinavia, John Egan, IABC Ireland, European Leadership Institute meeting in Berlin, Eurocomm, Rob Kuijpers, SN Brussels Airlines.

Podsafe intro music - On A Podcast Instrumental Mix (MP3, 5Mb) by Cruisebox.

Posted by neville on 09/14 at 03:24 AM
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Monday, September 12, 2005

The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #67: September 12, 2005

Content summary: Listeners’ comments discussion (bandwidth, bit rates and listening preferences; jazzed about podcasts; answering the logo call); PR firms with no RSS; emergent journalism with PublicNow.com; IABC’s Katrina initiative; Queen of Sky sues Delta; eBay acquires Skype, Oracle grabs Siebel Systems, America West goes to US Airways; two new European podcasters; 20 uses for podcasts; 7m iTunes podcasts; from Our Correspondent Down Under; blogs that front sales sites.

Show notes for September 12, 2005

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Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, an 80-minute conversation recorded live from Chicago, USA, and Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Download the file here (MP3, 33MB), 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 or iTunes, or an RSS aggregator that supports podcasts such as FeedDemon).

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In this Edition:

Intro:

  • 00:32 Shel introduces the show; what the show’s about; how to give your feedback; show notes

Listeners’ comments discussion:

  • 02:23 Howard Harawitz on bandwidth, bit rates and listening preferences for podcasts
  • 08:54 Kevin Dugan is jazzed about podcasts, gets down to ‘brass tax’ about the costs of podcasting, and makes a pitch
  • 13:27 David Becker answers the logo call

News and Features:

Outro:

  • 72:32 Neville outros the show; how to give your feedback; show notes; the music

Links for the blogs, individuals, companies and organizations we discussed or mentioned in the show:

Intro - Steve Crescenzo.

Listeners’ comments discussion - Howard Harawitz, Geek News Central, Kevin Dugan, McGraw-Hill, Plantronics, Audacity, Eric Schwartzman, Dan York, David Becker, Effective Edge Communications podcasts.

News and Features - Philip Borremans, Weber Shandwick, Edelman, Oakland Raiders, Stowe Boyd, NowPublic.com, BlueHereNow Technologies, TypePad, Movable Type, Blogger, Reuters, eWeek, Creative Commons, IABC, Hurricane Katrina, IABC Cafe, Lisa Owens, Ellen Simonetti, Delta Airlines, AP, MSNBC, eBay, Skype, Meg Whitman, PayPal, Niklas Zennström, Fred Wilson, eBay investor conference call, Oracle, Siebel Systems, America West, US Airways, Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Business Summit, PeopleSoft, Guillaume du Gardier, Loic Le Meur, Six Apart, Robert Scoble, Kevin Dugan, Steve Jobs, Apple, iPod nano, iTunes, Michael Hyatt’s iTunes 5.0 problems, iPod, iPod mini, Lee Hopkins, Darren Barefoot, Sally Goetsch, Heidi Miller, Trevor Cook, ABC, Seth Godin, Nicholas Negroponte, SparkleLikeTheStars.com, Ice.com.

Outro - Garageband.com, Dream, The Fishermen, For Immediate Release, A Shel of My Former Self, NevOn.

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 September 16…

Posted by neville on 09/12 at 11:09 AM
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Friday, September 09, 2005

Podcasts for Katrina relief efforts

As part of our discussion about Hurricane Katrina in show #66 yesterday of For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, Shel and I discussed an initiative by Podshow that enables podcasters to promote and offer appeal messages for supporting disaster relief efforts for Hurricane Katrina.

If you visit the Podshow Cares page, you’ll find close to 60 (as I write this) recorded appeals from podcasters.

Shortly after finishing our show yesterday, Shel and I recorded an appeal message. We talk about the online places to make your donation regardless of the continent you’re on or the currency you use.

This was a true no-brainer for us to do so we can add our voices to the collective voice of podcasters around the world who want to help.

If you’re a podcaster and would like to use any of the podcaster appeal messages in your podcast, feel free to do so. If you’d like a copy of ours, it’s a 700Kb MP3 file, about 1:40, and you can directly download it here.

Every little will help.

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Thursday, September 08, 2005

The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #66: September 8, 2005

Content summary: Listeners’ comments discussion (podcast junkie; support for parents; Ray Nagin interview case study; non-primary audience listener); Katrina - public service announcements, has Katrina saved the US media?, controversy over the word ‘refugee’; new reports from IBM, Edelman and Intelliseek; wikis, news releases, buttons and podcasting; the critical pieces in the change communication puzzle; text vs. audio - the conversation continues; changes to the FIR RSS feed.

Show notes for September 8, 2005

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Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 71-minute conversation recorded live from Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Concord, California, USA.

Download the file here (MP3, 29MB), 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 or iTunes 4.9, or an RSS aggregator that supports podcasts such as FeedDemon).

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In this Edition:

Intro:

  • 00:30 Neville introduces the show; what’s in this edition; how to give your feedback; show notes; what the show’s about

Listeners’ comments discussion:

  • 03:08 Sally Goetsch is a podcast junkie and says she downloads FIR through iTunes and Odeo, like the blog book tour idea and offers a new definition - podcast solipism
  • 05:23 Ralph Gaillard on the online support group for the parents of premature babies discussed in show #61
  • 06:00 Rob Safuto thinks the raw emotion of the radio interview by New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin will be studied by communicators for years to come
  • 07:03 Dan Hill enjoys the show even though he says he’s definitely not the primary target audience

Hurricane Katrina News:

  • 08:40 Public service announcements - podcasters answer the unspoken call
  • 13:08 Has Katrina saved the US media? We discuss opinions from BBC News and the New York Observer which would indicate that a shift is happening, away from journalistic self-suppression and complacency to more authentic reporting
  • 20:08 There’s a controversy over the use of the word ‘refugee’ - an absurdity!

News and Features:

  • 23:56 IBM’s web newsroom study - a good benchmarking tool
  • 26:05 Edleman’s and Intelliseek’s latest white paper on employee blogging - a rich source of information into what companies are doing
  • 30:03 Dan York‘s report - the intersection of wikis and news releases, brilliant buttons including a new one for FIR, and IABC’s Communication World feature on podcasting
  • 39:46 Change in the workplace and sources of communication - CEO-supervisor-employee voices are critically important pieces in effective communication and measurement of the complex change puzzle
  • 50:47 The value of text vs. the value of audio - the effects on conversational discourse, the right tool in the right place,

Outro:

  • 60:22 Shel’s at Steve Crescenzo’s wedding this weeekend and in Chicago on Monday
  • 61:24 Some Skype issues with today’s show
  • 61:54 Changes to the show’s RSS feed - now five separate feeds on the podcast blog
  • 64:20 We need a FIR logo! Would anyone care to help?
  • 69:20 Shel outros the show; how to give your feedback; show notes; the music

Links for the blogs, individuals, companies and organizations we discussed or mentioned in the show:

Listeners’ comments discussion - Sally Goetsch, Ralph Gaillard, Rob Safuto, Ray Nagin, Dan Hill.

Hurricane Katrina News - Podshow, CC Chapman, Accident Hash, Podsafe Music Network, American Red Cross, Dawn & Drew, PW Fenton, Digital Flotsam, BBC News, Matt Wells, Fox News, John Dvorak, New York Observer, John Stewart, Rocketboom, Katrinagate, New Orleans Times-Picayune, UN definition of ‘refugee’, Congressional Black Caucus, Jesse Jackson, Washington Post.

News and Features - Best Practices in Public Relations: An Analysis of Online Press Rooms in Leading Companies Round the World (PDF), IBM Spain, Edelman, Intelliseek, ‘Talking From The Inside Out’ (PDF file), Dan York, Lee Hopkins, Eric Schwartzman, wiki software, wiki farms, JotSpot, Social Text, Brilliant Button Maker, ‘Get FIR’ button, IABC, Communication World, Judy Jones,Shel’s post on CEOs and change communication, Angela Sinickas, Organizational Surveys: Tools for Assessment and Change, TJ Larkin, Darren Barefoot, Nicole Simon, Dan Hill, Lee Lefever.

Outro - Steve Crescenzo, Skype, Mary Hodder speech, Paint Shop Pro, Podsafe Music Network, Spamalot, Karmen Tyler, Guilty, For Immediate Release, A Shel of My Former Self, NevOn.

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 September 12…

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Wednesday, September 07, 2005

Speakers and Speeches: Mary Hodder on blog search engines

In this first offering of Speakers and Speeches, “For Immediate Release” is pleased to offer a 1:34 speech—including Q&A—by Mary Hodder, delivered on Tuesday, Sept. 6 at a meeting of the bloggers and RSS special interest group of the East Bay (California) IT Group (EBIG).

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imageMary Hodder is a digital media junkie. She works with companies in open source, photo sharing and blog aggregation. A graduate of UC-Berkeley’s School of Information Management Systems, she researches and writes on intellectual property, security and privacy. She writes the Napsterization blog and has recently started a new blog, as well. She is currently working to launch a digital online video business. She formerly worked for Technorati and remains involved in the company, and also sits on the board of AttentionTrust, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the basic rights of attention owners.

In this talk, Hodder addressed the differences among—and problems with—the current crop of blog search engines, and articulated a vision for what blog search could achieve.

Shel Holtz, who attended the session, recorded Hodder with a Marantz Professional PMD660 digital recorder, using the built-in microphone. The audio is slightly edited to remove a couple of confidential items about which Mary asked attendees not to blog.

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Monday, September 05, 2005

The Hobson and Holtz Report - Podcast #65: September 5, 2005

Content summary: Listeners’ comments discussion (new media, resumes and Googling job seekers; book promotion and blog tours); interviews and reviews; Ray Nagin’s radio interview, Zip 71101 podcast interviews and more Katrina news; new weekly podcast from Steve Rubel and Joseph Jaffe; from our Correspondent Down Under; Darren Barefoot argues that text is better than audio.

Show notes for September 5, 2005

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Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 76-minute conversation recorded live from Concord, California, USA, and Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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 or iTunes 4.9, or an RSS aggregator that supports podcasts such as FeedDemon).

OPMLShow notes OPML: We’re experimenting with producing concise show notes as an OPML file (download this show’s notes here) that will enable you to have the notes on your own PC, Mac, PDA or other device. To use this file, we suggest trying Dave Winer’s OPML Editor. Let us know if you find this format useful - would you like us to continue doing this?

In this Edition:

Intro:

  • 00:31 Shel introduces the show; what the show’s about; how to give your feedback; what’s in this edition; show notes

Listeners’ comments discussion:

  • 02:46 Nik from Colorado on using new media tools with resumes/CVs when job hunting, Googling job hunters and recruiters, and chapters files for podcasts
  • 14:28 Nicole Simon on book promotion and blog tours

Interviews and Reviews:

Hurricane Katrina News:

  • 21:45 New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin’s radio interview - passion, anger and a call to action: a raw mixture of plain speaking and strong emotion and the contrast with the scripted press conference
  • 31:56 The wide-ranging roles of company intranets and public blogs in hurricane relief efforts
  • 35:38 Zip 71101 - a podcast of on-the-spot interviews with Katrina evacuees
  • 38:46 IABC Cafe discussions on Katrina
  • 41:09 Mapping the devastation - zooming in to the street level with Google Earth and Google Maps

News and Features:

  • 44:40 Across the Sound - Steve Rubel‘s and Joseph Jaffe‘s new weekly podcast on new media and marketing
  • 47:48 From Our Correspondent Down Under - Lee Hopkins: intelligent life and the flying spaghetti monster, the lost art of ink and paper combat, counselling and support for those suffering from post-traumative podcast disorder and other malaises
  • 53:16 Audio and text - is it either or? We discuss Darren Barefoot‘s argument that text is a far better communication medium than podcasts (What do you think?)

Outro:

  • 69:20 Neville outros the show; how to give your feedback; show notes; the music

Links for the blogs, individuals, companies and organizations we discussed or mentioned in the show:

Listeners’ comments discussion - Nik from Colorado, Amazon, Google, AAC file format, iPod, iTunes, Robert French, Andrew Marritt, Nicole Simon.

Interviews and Reviews - Jeremy Wright, Ensight, Blog Marketing, Podcast Solutions, Michael Geoghegan, Dan Klass, Disney, Cliff Atkinson, Beyond Bullet Points, The Virtual Handshake, Return on Customers, Communities Dominate Brands, Alan Moore.

Hurricane Katrina News - Ray Nagin, New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina, President Bush, 9/11, Rudy Giuliani, Wikipedia, Jim Lukach, Siemens USA, WWL, Continental Airlines, Daily Source Code, Zip 71101, Ron Stroope, BBC World, CNN, IABC Cafe, Warren Bickford, Gerard Braud, Google Earth, Google Maps, Charles Pizzo.

News and Features - Across the Sound, Steve Rubel, Joseph Jaffe, Skype, Gizmo, Lee Hopkins, Allan Jenkins, Doug Johnson, Basildon Bond, DIY Planner, Derek Leverington, Podcast Anxiety: a cure has been found, Dawn & Drew Show, Darren Barefoot, Neville’s post: Communication innovation with podcasting, The Conference Board, Lee Hornick, Dan Gillmor, Purina, IBM, GM, FeedBurner, Podshow, Adam Curry, Ron Bloom, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Sequoia Capital, Odeo, Endurance Radio, Fleet Sports, Gatorade, Geek News Central, GoDaddy.com.

Outro - Garageband.com, The Disappeared, Peter Adams, For Immediate Release, A Shel of My Former Self, NevOn.

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 September 8…

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