Hobson and Holtz
The Hobson & Holtz Report
Thursday, April 23, 2009
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #442: April 23, 2009
Content summary: Shel’s in Texas; next FIR Live on Saturday April 25; FIR Listener Contest closes Friday April 24; FIR Listener Survey update, closes May 1; Dan York reports on Earth Day, blo.gs, Google Profiles, and more; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: celebrities and the Terminator on Twitter, survey says journalists want social media links in online newsrooms, Skygrid launches, JP Morgan Chase Bank’s interesting use of social media for debt collection, Heyman study on employee communication; listeners’ comments discussion; music from Little Plastic Stars; and more.
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For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, for April 23, 2009: A 58-minute podcast recorded live from Wokingham, Berkshire, England, and almost live from Arlington, Texas, 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 April 27…
Monday, April 20, 2009
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #441: April 20, 2009
Content summary: A look at initial results from the 2009 FIR Listener Survey; next FIR Live on BlogTalk Radio on April 25; still time to enter the FIR Listener Contest; update discussion: lessons and opinions about the Domino’s Pizza crisis; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: ‘Smeargate’ highlights the demise of command-and-control communication and how the rules have changed in UK politics; listeners’ comments discussion; news about Thursday’s show; music from The Minions; and more.
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For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, for April 20, 2009: 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, or at Jaiku: fir.jaiku.com. 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 Thursday April 23…
Thursday, April 16, 2009
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #440: April 16, 2009
Content summary: Shel’s in Pittsburgh; take the 2009 FIR Listener Survey; next FIR Live on BlogTalk Radio on April 25; FIR Listener Contest still awaits first entrant; Dan York reports on Domino’s Pizza and communication futures; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: Domino’s Pizza discussion introduced by Heidi Miller, the definition of news; listeners’ comments discussion; music from Electric Touch; and more.
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For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, for April 16, 2009: A 60-minute podcast recorded live from Wokingham, Berkshire, England, and almost live from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 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, or at Jaiku: fir.jaiku.com. 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.
Join the FIR Discussion Forum and extend your conversations with the FIR community. You can also join the FIR Facebook Community and become an FIR friend.
So, until Monday April 20…
Monday, April 13, 2009
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #439: April 13, 2009
Content summary: 2009 FIR Listener Survey launches; next FIR Live on BlogTalk Radio on April 25; FIR Listener Contest awaiting first entrant; Michael Netzley reports on digital media in Cambodia; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Eric Schwartzman interviews Korn/Ferry International’s Don Spetner on job hunting in a recession; News That Fits: in the aftermath of the G20 citizen-led electronic news media is here, Amazon’s social media mess; listeners’ comments discussion including Bernie Goldbach on the Mikeyy Twitter worm; news about Thursday’s show; music from Battery Life; and more.
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For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, for April 13, 2009: A 60-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, or at Jaiku: fir.jaiku.com. 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.
Join the FIR Discussion Forum and extend your conversations with the FIR community. You can also join the FIR Facebook Community and become an FIR friend.
So, until Thursday April 16…
Survey: What Do You Think of FIR?
Three years ago, in April 2006, we conducted our first listener survey in order to help us understand more about our listeners and the kinds of things they like (and dislike) about our podcast.
That survey gave us a great deal of useful information at the time that helped us develop the podcast, taking into account everything everyone said.
A lot has changed in three years, though.
We have two sponsors now: Ragan Communications and CustomScoop. For Immediate Release has grown well beyond the core Hobson and Holtz Report to embrace a total of six podcasts today including the monthly FIR Live on BlogTalk Radio.
We’re also fortunate to have a team of correspondents, established and valuable elements of The Hobson and Holtz Report podcast.
And one other major change in the three years since our last (and first) listener survey is how the FIR community has developed and become an even more important element of the overall ‘FIR experience’ via the FIR Room on Friendfeed and also via Twitter.
We think it’s the right time to find out if FIR and, specifically, The Hobson and Holtz Report, really is in tune with our community. Is it a podcast that contains the content we think that people want? What about specific content elements in each show? What do listeners like best? Least? Where do people listen? How do they get hold of the MP3 files? And so on.
So if you’re a listener to The Hobson and Holtz Report, we’d like to ask you to invest 20 minutes of your time and take the 2009 FIR Listener Survey. The survey on SurveyGizmo is open now and closes at midday GMT on Friday May 1, 2009. We’ll announce the results during May.
http://www.surveygizmo.com/s/123833/fir-listener-survey-2009
Thanks for your help and your support.
Thursday, April 09, 2009
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #438: April 9, 2009
Content summary: Win free entry to Next09 in FIR Listener Contest; follow-up discussion: Robert Scoble on PR and Shel’s blog post response; Dan York reports on Seesmic Desktop, TweetDeck, Twitter plugins for WordPress, the AP and more; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: new studies on networking and the workplace, Boeing to teach employees how to use Google; listeners’ comments discussion and FIR Friendfeed Room round-up; music from Mano Reza; and more.
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For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, for April 9, 2009: A 61-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, or at Jaiku: fir.jaiku.com. 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.
Join the FIR Discussion Forum and extend your conversations with the FIR community. You can also join the FIR Facebook Community and become an FIR friend.
So, until Monday April 13…
Monday, April 06, 2009
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #437: April 6, 2009
Content summary: Win free entry to Next09 in FIR Listener Contest; Michael Netzley reports from Singapore on young Asians driven by media and music; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Eric Schwartzman interviews Los Angeles Times veteran, author, LAObserved.com blogger and UCLA online newsroom editor-in-chief Kevin Roderick; News That Fits: value trend tests brand loyalty, truth in social media marketing, when the bread is rising and the ball is flying and the meerkat is asking Twitter lets you know, Web 2.0 ways for companies to build brand awareness; listeners’ comments discussion and Friendfeed FIR Room round-up; music from Donna the Buffalo; and more.
Get FIR:
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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.
For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, for April 6, 2009: A 62-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, or at Jaiku: fir.jaiku.com. 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.
Join the FIR Discussion Forum and extend your conversations with the FIR community. You can also join the FIR Facebook Community and become an FIR friend.
So, until Thursday April 9…
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