Monday, March 14, 2005

The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #15: March 14, 2005

Content summary: A new phone-in comment service now available; listeners’ comments: on sound quality, a suggestion for interview transcriptions; customer service and the Technorati example; government lobbying and Cisco’s new blog; the revolutionary fervour of blogging and the evolutionary development of mainstream media; ethics in PR; IABC: leadership and transparency in discussion.

Show notes for March 14, 2005

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Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 51-minute conversation recorded live from Concord, California, USA, and Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Download the file here (MP3, 23.3MB), 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 software such as the FeedDemon RSS aggregator, or the free ipodder or DopplerRadio).

In this week’s show:

Intro:

  • 00:29 Shel and Neville on what’s in this week’s show; how to give your feedback; show notes
  • 01:06 New comment service - phone in your comments to the Comment Line at +1 206 984 0931
  • 02:25 Comments from the last show
  • 09:42 Steve Rubel interview - scheduled but not happening today

Topics:

  • 10:42 Customer service - Technorati, the influence of blogs and customer service departments
  • 20:23 Public affairs and government lobbying - the Cisco Systems’ High Tech Policy Blog
  • 24:44 Trevor Cook asks: Can blogging retain its revolutionary fervour?; the evolutionary development of mainstream media
  • 33:39 Ethics in PR - do you have to understand your model before you establish your ethical frameworks?
  • 40:06 IABC - Jeremy Pepper‘s upcoming interview with IABC Chair David Kistle; leadership, transparency in discussion and the IABC Chair Blog.

Outro:

  • 46:27 How to give your feedback; show notes; about the music and the band; outro music

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

Intro - SkypeOut, Skype, Frank Meeuwson, Blogging Planet, Blognomics, Richard Rowan, Dragon Naturally-Speaking, Sebastian Kiel, Dan York, Robert Scoble, Audacity, Steve Rubel.

Topics - Technorati, Dave Sifrey, Ian Kallan, Stuart Roebuck, Dave Taylor, Jeremy Pepper, Cisco Systems’ High Tech Policy Blog, Rick Bruner, Business Blog Consulting, Trevor Cook, Blogtalk Downunder, Financial Times, Reuters, Tom Glocer, Ventura County Star, Le Monde, Contra Costa Times, Philip Young, University of Sunderland, Chartered Institute of Public Relations, New York Times, Ketchum, Jay Rosen, IABC, David Kistle, Allan Jenkins, IABC Chair Blog, Robert Holland, Charles Pizzo.

Outro - Garageband.com, Oscar Trim, 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 comments@forimmediaterelease.biz. 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 March 17…

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Thursday, March 10, 2005

The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #14: March 10, 2005

Content summary: Listeners’ comments about the interview with Robert Scoble; how to get podcasts automatically with podcatcher software; discussion about the Robert Scoble interview; a new PR blog and a resurrected one make their debuts; communication consultancies focused on new-media channels; IABC; a little rant about Blogrolling.

Show notes for March 10, 2005

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Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 55-minute conversation recorded live from Concord, California, USA, and Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Download the file here (MP3, 22.1MB), 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 software such as the FeedDemon RSS aggregator, or the free ipodder or DopplerRadio).

In this week’s show:

Intro:

  • 00:31 Shel and Neville on what’s in this week’s show; how to give your feedback; show notes
  • 01:47 Comments from the last show

Topics:

  • 10:09 How to use a podcatcher
  • 14:48 The Robert Scoble interview - what did we think?
  • 21:50 A new PR blog (KD Paine) and a resurrected one (Burson-Marsteller)
  • 27:26 Blogging Panet and new-channel consultancies
  • 32:36 IABC - leadership directions, transparency in discussion, the Chair blog
  • 37:54 Shel and Neville - IABC Fellow and Lip-Sticking feature, respectively
  • 43:02 Rant - Neville on Blogrolling.com

Outro:

  • 47:00 Next interview: Steve Rubel, Monday March 14; how to give your feedback; show notes; about the music and the band; outro music

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

Intro - Richard Rowan, Sheri Rosen, The Red Couch, Scott Solomon, Peter West, Josh Hallett, Will Simpson.

Topics - iPodder, Doppler Radio, Adam Curry, Lisa Williams, iPodder ‘how-to’ video, FeedDemon, Nick Bradbury, iTunes, iPod, Robert Scoble, Outlook, Microsoft, Office marketing site, Teleo, Skype, KD Paine, Delahaye MediaLink, Burson-Marsteller blog, Pew Internet Survey, Andy Lark, Constantin Basturea, Blogging Planet, Elizabeth Albrycht, Guillaume du Gardier, Christophe Ducamp, CooperKatz, Steve Rubel, Mercer, IABC, Allan Jenkins, Brian Kilgore, Robert Holland, Warren Bickford, Ron Martin, Bobby Resnick, John Aspery, Philip Douglas, Roger D’Aprix, Wilma Matthews, Chris Bunting, Fred Halperin, Brad Whitworth, Norm Leaper, Ian Hawkins, Ann Forest, Tudor Williams, IABC International Conference, Lip-Sticking, Yvonne DiVita, New Communications Forum 2005, Windsor Media Enterprises, Blogrolling, TypePad, Del.icio.us, Bloglines.

Outro - Phil Lesh & Friends, RIAA, For Immediate Release, A Shel of My Former Self, NevOn.

Audio issue note: We’re sorry that audio quality over Skype in this show was somewhat patchy at times when Neville spoke. We hope it doesn’t spoil your listening enjoyment.

If you have comments or questions about this show, or suggestions for our future shows, email us at comments@forimmediaterelease.biz. 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, March 14…

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Tuesday, March 08, 2005

An Open Conversation with Robert Scoble, Microsoft Geek Blogger

Yesterday, Shel and I interviewed Robert Scoble, the Scobleizer, in the March 7 edition of The Hobson & Holtz Report.

In a 38-minute conversation, we discussed a wide range of topics, including evangelism, anti-marketing, blogging, RSS and reading feeds, email mailing lists, relationships with colleagues, internal blogs at Microsoft, The Red Couch book project, a blogging ombudsman, and advice for communicators.

You can download the conversation (MP3, 25Mb) and listen to what we talked about. Follow the overall show with the show notes. And, sign up to the RSS feed to get future shows automatically in your RSS reader.

As we always do our show and interviews over Skype, this one was the same. We Skyped Robert in from his office in Redmond, USA, and, after fixing a few little sound glitches at the start, had a terrific discussion!

Here’s the transcript of our conversation. For clarity and continuity, I’ve edited out the little sound or connection glitches we encountered in a few parts of our conversation.

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Monday, March 07, 2005

The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #13: March 7, 2005

Content summary: A discussion about IBM’s 2,800 internal blogs - how do they enable collaboration in the workplace?; and a 38-minute conversation with Robert Scoble, Microsoft’s “geek blogger” - on evangelism, anti-marketing, blogging, RSS and reading feeds, email mailing lists, relationships with colleagues, internal blogs at Microsoft, The Red Couch book project, a blogging ombudsman, advice for communicators.

Show notes for March 7, 2005

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Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 62-minute conversation recorded live from Concord, California, USA, and Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Download the file here (MP3, 25MB), 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 software such as the FeedDemon RSS aggregator, or the free ipodder or DopplerRadio).

In this week’s show:

Intro:

  • 00:34 Shel and Neville on what’s in this week’s show; how to give your feedback; show notes
  • 01:24 Comment from the last show

Short Take:

  • 05:24 IBM’s 2,800 internal blogs - how they are being used, what they mean for collaborative working and information sharing; what other companies may be doing

Feature:

Outro:

  • 54:00 Potential format change to this show; next interview: Steve Rubel, Monday March 14; how to give your feedback; show notes; about the music and the band; outro music

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

Intro - Sifry’s Alerts, Technorati, Technorati Searchlet, Amsterdam Schiphol airport, Google.

Short Take - Philippe Borremans, IBM Belgium & Luxembourg, IAOC, IBM, Microsoft, Sun, Kelloggs, Gilbane Group report on blogs and wikis, Intel, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, Financial Times, Charlene Li, Forrester Research, WordPress, Skype, Skype Journal.

Feature - Robert Scoble, Microsoft, Channel 9, Windows, .NET, Bill Gates, Longhorn, Quicken, Yahoo, Adobe, Photoshop, Avalon 3D, The Economist interview, Steve Rubel, Microsoft Office marketing site, Tablet PC, Waggener Edstrom, Macintosh, Eric Peterson, Jupiter Research, PowerPoint, Scoble link blog, Outlook, NewsGator, Java, Linux, Apple, Visual C#, ActiveWin, National Association of Broadcasters, NEC, SharePoint, Shel Israel, The Red Couch, Wiley, Dan Gillmor, Steve Ballmer.

Outro - Jeremy Wright, Fergus Burns, The Mexican, Verbal Clint, Kevin Spacey, Garageband.com, 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 comments@forimmediaterelease.biz. 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, March 10…

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Thursday, March 03, 2005

The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #12: March 3, 2005

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Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 33-minute conversation recorded live from a hotel room in Chicago, IL with recorded input from Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Download the file here (MP3, 13.3MB), 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 software such as the FeedDemon RSS aggregator, or the free ipodder or DopplerRadio).

In this week’s show:

Intro:

  • 00:27 Shel and Neville on what’s in this week’s show; how to give your feedback; show notes
  • 04:28 Comments from the last show

Short Takes:

  • 12:42 Jupiter’s Eric Peterson and RSS in marketing
  • 18:55 Mike Manuel’s post on blogging business practices
  • 22:00 Red Couch blogging book project by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel
  • 24:35 Technorati’s searchlet blog plugin
  • 26:15 iPod at Drexel University
  • 29:00 Outro
  • 29:18 Music: UMASS Front Percussion Ensemble’s “Paranoid Android”

Links for the blogs, individuals, companies and organizations we discussed or mentioned in the show:
Intro - Steve Rubel, Robert Scoble, DigiDesign, Jeremy Pepper, Edward Tufte’s “Cognitive Style of PowerPoint”, Mark Taylor, ANT open-source vblogging project, Cool MP3 Splitter.

Short Takes - Jupiter’s Eric Peterson, Cooper Katz’s Micro Persuasion Practice, Jeremy Wright, Blogging Planet, The Red Couch, Scobleizer, Shel Israel’s “It Seems to Me”, Wiley, Technorati Searchlet, Sifry’s Alerts, Drexel University iPod story.

Outro - Paranoid Android download from Podsafe Music, 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 comments@forimmediaterelease.biz. 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, March 7…

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