The Hobson and Holtz Report - Podcast #5: January 31, 2005

Production show notes for the January 31, 2005 edition of “For Immediate Release.”

Show notes for January 31, 2005.

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Welcome to our weekly podcast, a 71:55-minute conversation recorded live via Skype from Concord, California, USA, and Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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In this week’s show:

Intro:

  • 00:26 Shel and Neville on what this show’s about; brief comment on last week’s audio glitch
  • 01:28 Skype voice messaging beta test; Skype text messaging

Short Takes:

  • 06:20 GM FastLane Blog - Tom Stephens, Group Vice President, GM Powertrain, starts posting; the role of PR
  • 09:27 My Blog: Margot Wallström, Commissioner for Communications at the European Commission - now with comments, trackbacks and RSS
  • 12:54 Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide launches internal communication practice
  • 16:04 Fun with an iPod Mini
  • 17:25 Stuart Henshall’s iPod-Skype virtual jukebox
  • 18:38 Online magazine TechCentralStation to provide portal for bloggers for US President George Bush’s State of the Union address
  • 21:46 AOL drops access to Usenet, focuses on blogs instead
  • 22:54 Sony laptops and volume matters

Features:

  • 25:40 New Communications Forum 2005 in Napa, California, last week - how it was and making connections
  • 37:48 Blogging ethics gets coverage by the mainstream press
  • 46:17 Using blogs in crisis communications
  • 52:26 Next week’s planned interview - Bigha, the company which makes the green lasers: in the news recently re beaming at aircraft
  • 53:28 World Economic Forum blog - aiming for transparency and stimulating dialog

Outro:

  • 59:17 Show length: Is it too long? Should we split it into two shows? No comments yet - we’d like your feedback!
  • 60:21 Two podcast interviews at Napa last week - Fergus Burns, CEO of Nooked, and Jeremy Wright, budding business book author and dooced blogger
  • 61:08 How to give your feedback; about the music and the band

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

Intro - Skype, Skype voice messaging beta test.

Short Takes - GM FastLane Blog, GM Powertrain, Hass MS&L, Margot Wallström, Vice-President of the European Commission, Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, iPod Mini, iPod Shuffle, Apple store Walnut Creek, iPod Mini setup on Windows, Stuart Henshall, TechCentralStation.com, State of the Union, European Constitution, UK General Election, Allan Jenkins, Hans Kullin, AOL, Google, Sony.

Features - New Communications Forum 2005, Elizabeth Albrycht, Jennifer McClure, Guillaume du Gardier, Technorati, Constantin Basturea, The New PR Wiki, Christopher Carfi, IT Toolbox, The Steelhead Brewery, Alice Marshall, Dan Forbush, Jeremy Wright, Fergus Burns, Radio Shack, IABC, Chicago Daily Herald, AP, Marqui, Rebecca Blood, Geek News Central, Armstrong Williams, PRSA, Creative Commons, Fredrik WackÃ¥, Alaska Airlines, Steve Rubel, Bigha, World Economic Forum, WEF Blog, Sharon Stone, Loic Le Meur, Six Apart, David Kirkpatrick, Rebecca Mackinnon, Barney Frank.

Outro - Garageband.com, RIAA, The Dave Manley Band, 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.

Until next week…

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