
Hobson and Holtz
The Hobson & Holtz Report
Thursday, July 05, 2007
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #255: July 5, 2007
Content summary: Lawrence Ragan Communications, Inc, sponsors FIR; MP3 download issues; Podcast Awards 2007 nominations; new SNCR Journal is out with project Shel worked on; Dan York reports on FeedBurner Pro and MyBrand, the iPhone podcaster kit, Pownce; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; is Google now in the PR business?; lawsuit for alleged copyright infringement in Second Life; Danish students experiment with comment-based journalism; controversy and lawsuit over SAP subsidiary’s unauthorized Oracle file downloads; David Philips’ one-minute news items and reports on evaluating online PR; listeners’ comments discussion; the music; and more.
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Show notes for July 5, 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, 27MB), 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 July 9…
Monday, July 02, 2007
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #254: July 2, 2007
Content summary: The iPhone launch; vote for FIR at Podcast Alley; nominate FIR for the Podcast Awards 2007; new NMRCast is up; FIR interview coming with David Kirkpatrick of Fortune magazine; Shel, Bryan Person, a ballgame and a geek dinner; defining transparency at The New PR wiki; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Lee Hopkins reports; Dell Outlet on Twitter; two more social media white papers available; Creative Commons legal podcasting guide for Canada; GroundReport.tv seeks CC-licensed documentaries and news; staff complaints force law firm Allen & Overy into Facebook U-turn; Canadian government communicates via Facebook; Vancouver police to recruit in Second Life; great lessons on communication and branding from Crowne Plaza launch in Second Life; listeners’ comments discussion including Richard Gatarski’s report on Podcamp Europe; Podcamp UK coming in September; Neville at Chinwag’s Big Summer 07 on July 5; the music; and more.
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Show notes for July 2, 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, 27.6MB), 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 Thursday July 5…
Thursday, June 28, 2007
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #253: June 28, 2007
Content summary: Road-weary Shel in Dallas; the IABC conference; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Dan York reports; turning address books into social networks: is it time to look at Plaxo again?; social network overload; new intranets take a page from MySpace; an olympic PR challenge for brands at Beijing 2008; Facebook’s potential for marketing; David Phillips reports; listeners’ comments discussion; the music; and more.
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Show notes for June 28, 2007
Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 63-minute podcast recorded live from Dallas, Texas, USA, and Wokingham, Berkshire, England.
Download the file here (MP3, 29.2MB), 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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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 July 2…
Monday, June 25, 2007
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #252: June 25, 2007
Content summary: Travels, the IABC conference, and social media IT challenges for organizations; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Sallie Goetsch reports from the Podcast Asylum; the kerfuffle between Federated Media and Microsoft; viral Dove video wins top prize at Cannes; the Dix and Eaton e-annual report; how the internet is changing politics; strategies for recruiting Gen-Y workers; younger workers demanding Web 2.0 technologies on the job; listeners’ comments discussion; the music; and more.
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Show notes for June 25, 2007
Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 62-minute podcast recorded live from Wokingham, Berkshire, England, and from the IABC 2007 International Conference hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Download the file here (MP3, 28.3MB), 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 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 June 28…
Thursday, June 21, 2007
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #251: June 21, 2007
Content summary: Shel’s in Newfoundland, Neville’s in transit; thanks to the crew for show 251; a leftover comment from Bryan Person; Media Monitoring Minute; Neville on his consulting gig and Shel’s follow-up; the book is out; One-Minute News: IM comes to Myspace, Motorola’s intranet goes Web 2.0, IBM offers intranet social media suites, Flickr protest on Flickr, Whole Foods CEO blogs differences with FTC; listener comments; the music; and more.
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Show notes for June 21, 2007
Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 62-minute podcast recorded live from St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada, and almost live from Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Download the file here (MP3, 28.5MB), 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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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 June 25…
Monday, June 18, 2007
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #250: June 18, 2007
Content summary: The community episode without Shel and Neville. Made entirely by Dan York, Sallie Goetsch rhymes with Sketch and Lee Hopkins, and featuring Carmen Van Kerckhove, Luke Armour, Doug Haslam, Francis Wooby, Rob Safuto, Professor Sketch, Alias Fallis and Jones, Anna Farmery, David Phillips, Chip Griffin, CC Chapman, John Wall, Karin Hoegh, Michael Bellina, Donna PepsiCola, Dan York, Mitch Joel, Lord Hopkins. Plus the music and, of course, more.
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Show notes for June 18, 2007
Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 56-minute podcast masterminded by that talented Aussie in Adelaide and his cabal of cohorts, and recorded kinda live from all over North America, Australia and the UK.
Download the file here (MP3, 25.5MB), 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).
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 June 21…
Thursday, June 14, 2007
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #249: June 14, 2007
Content summary: Shel’s in Chicago; upcoming episode 250; the European Communication Summit in Brussels; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Dan York reports on lifestreams, Jaiku and fractured conversations; social networking and time challenges: are we facing an attention crash?; Sony lets PlayStation employees blog; executive blogs; David Phillips with the buzz after the Walk in Wiltshire; listeners’ comments discussion; the music; and more.
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Show notes for June 14, 2007
Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 58-minute podcast recorded live from Wokingham, Berkshire, England, and almost live from Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Download the file here (MP3, 26.5MB), 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).
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 June 18…


