Hobson and Holtz
The Hobson & Holtz Report
Thursday, August 23, 2007
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #269: August 23, 2007
Content summary: Follow up on Mattel toy recall crisis; Dan York reports; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Verizon, Starbucks and Comcast PR blunders; the Skype outage clarified; WalMart on Facebook; US intelligence community launches A-Space, an internal social network; listeners’ comments discussion including advice on moving blogs from TypePad to WordPress; the music; and more.
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Show notes for August 23, 2007
Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 60-minute podcast recorded live from Wokingham, Berkshire, England, and Concord, California, USA.
Download the file here (MP3, 27.5MB), 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 Juice, DopplerRadio, iTunes or Yahoo! Podcasts, or an RSS aggregator that supports podcasts such as FeedDemon).
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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 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 +1 206 222 2803 (North America) or +44 20 8133 9844 (Europe); or Skype: fircomments; or 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.
So, until Monday August 27…
Monday, August 20, 2007
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #268: August 20, 2007
Content summary: Tom Keefe’s FIR photos; a special message to Radio TalentZoo listeners; Les Potter’s out of hospital; Alice Marshall’s comment explained; discussion on The Question of The Week from FIR #265: how to address employees profiting from their blogging; Sallie Goetsch reports; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; the big Skype outage: time for effective communication; Mattel in product recall crisis does a CEO video; listeners’ comments discussion; interview with Mark Ragan posted; the music; and more.
[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.]
Show notes for August 20, 2007
Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 61-minute podcast recorded live from Concord, California, USA, and Wokingham, Berkshire, England.
Download the file here (MP3, 27.9 MB), 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 Juice, DopplerRadio, iTunes or Yahoo! Podcasts, or an RSS aggregator that supports podcasts such as FeedDemon).
Listen to this podcast now:
In This Edition:
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 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 +1 206 222 2803 (North America) or +44 20 8133 9844 (Europe); or Skype: fircomments; or 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.
So, until Thursday August 23…
Thursday, August 16, 2007
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #267: August 16, 2007
Content summary: Podcast Awards 2007 winners announced; Dan York reports on social network portability, Tris Hussey’s Mediasphere podcast, data sharing summit, IABC Heritage Region conference; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; US report refutes claims of social networking dangers; editing Wikipedia, and WikiScanner; Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra to stage concert in Second Life; university emergency broadcast system sends text messages to student cell phones; listeners’ comments discussion; the music; and more.
[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.]
Show notes for August 16, 2007
Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 57-minute podcast recorded live from Wokingham, Berkshire, England, and almost live from Syracuse, New York, USA.
Download the file here (MP3, 26MB), 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 Juice, DopplerRadio, iTunes or Yahoo! Podcasts, or an RSS aggregator that supports podcasts such as FeedDemon).
Listen to this podcast now:
In This Edition:
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 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 +1 206 222 2803 (North America) or +44 20 8133 9844 (Europe); or Skype: fircomments; or 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.
So, until Monday August 20…
Monday, August 13, 2007
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #266: August 13, 2007
Content summary: Recording with Callburner; Joseph Jaffe’s new marketing experiment; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; newspapers easier to read online: survey; forcing health on employees; UK print media ‘not dead’; Apple introduces widgets; company bloggers can help put out fires; the growth of Twitter (and Facebook) spam; report from Sallie Goetsch; listeners’ comments discussion; news about next Thursday’s show; the music; and more.
[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.]
Show notes for August 13, 2007
Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 62-minute podcast recorded live from Syracuse, New York, USA, and Wokingham, Berkshire, England.
Download the file here (MP3, 28MB), 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 Juice, DopplerRadio, iTunes or Yahoo! Podcasts, or an RSS aggregator that supports podcasts such as FeedDemon).
Listen to this podcast now:
In This Edition:
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 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 +1 206 222 2803 (North America) or +44 20 8133 9844 (Europe); or Skype: fircomments; or 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.
So, until Thursday August 16…
Thursday, August 09, 2007
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #265: August 9, 2007
Content summary: Shel’s in Denver; new FIR interview posted; two upcoming interviews; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; My Ragan TV launches; how will niche social networks develop?; add your comments to Google News: editorializing the news?; Facebook responds: advertisers can opt out; David Meerman Scott’s Gobbledygook Manifesto; record Skype calls with Callburner; Dan York’s non-shiny-object look at the podcasting book, Facebook demographics and developments, visiting San Francisco; Question of The Week: how to address employees profiting from their blogging; listeners’ comments discussion; the music; and more.
[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.]
Show notes for August 9, 2007
Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 62-minute podcast recorded live from Wokingham, Berkshire, England, and almost live from Denver, Colorado, USA. Download the file here (MP3, 28.4MB), 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 Juice, DopplerRadio, iTunes or Yahoo! Podcasts, or an RSS aggregator that supports podcasts such as FeedDemon). Listen to this podcast now:
In This Edition:
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 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 +1 206 222 2803 (North America) or +44 20 8133 9844 (Europe); or Skype: fircomments; or 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.
So, until Monday August 13…
Monday, August 06, 2007
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #264: August 6, 2007
Content summary: Shel’s birthday!; Sallie Goetsch on Eric Schwartzman’s Stowe Boyd interview; Rob Cottingham on company Facebook policies; Lee Hopkins reports on Melcrum’s social media conference in Australia; advertisers cancel ads on Facebook and other social networks: naive or smart?; research report: why we Twitter; evidence of the web’s migration to 3D; new guide to do-it-yourself website usability testing; listeners’ comments discussion; news about next Thursday’s show; the music; and more.
[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.]
Show notes for August 6, 2007
Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 63-minute podcast recorded live from Wokingham, Berkshire, England, and Concord, California, USA.
Download the file here (MP3, 28.9MB), 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 Juice, DopplerRadio, iTunes or Yahoo! Podcasts, or an RSS aggregator that supports podcasts such as FeedDemon).
Listen to this podcast now:
In This Edition:
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 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 +1 206 222 2803 (North America) or +44 20 8133 9844 (Europe); or Skype: fircomments; or 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.
So, until Thursday August 9…
Thursday, August 02, 2007
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #263: August 2, 2007
Content summary: Vote for FIR at Podcast Alley and in the Podcast Awards 2007; FIR Interview iMeme conference podcast is posted; Rob Cottingham’s cartoons; update on podcasting book availability with Tony Molloy’s story and McGraw-Hill to the rescue; Dan York reports from the road in Florida; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; BBC puts flood reports in context wth interactive Google map; 10 things your IT department won’t tell you; Eric Schwartzman interviews Dave Friedman of Avenue A|Razorfish; listeners’ comment discussion: Sheri Rosen on the iPhone and Karl Susman’s iPhone lament; commentary on social networks and employer access prohibitions; the music; and more.
[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.]
Show notes for August 2, 2007
Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 58-minute podcast recorded live from Concord, California, USA, and Wokingham, Berkshire, England.
Download the file here (MP3, 26.8MB), 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 Juice, DopplerRadio, iTunes or Yahoo! Podcasts, or an RSS aggregator that supports podcasts such as FeedDemon).
Listen to this podcast now:
In This Edition:
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 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 +1 206 222 2803 (North America) or +44 20 8133 9844 (Europe); or Skype: fircomments; or 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.
So, until Monday August 6…
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