The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #93: December 12, 2005

The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #93: December 12, 2005

Content summary: Yahoo! acquires del.icio.us and teams up with Six Apart to offer Movable Type; IABC adds new media categories to Gold Quill Awards; Irish government uses RSS to deliver budget information; the Wikipedia class action lawsuit website; Nokia’s blog relations campaign for the N90 smartphone; listeners’ audio and email comments (from Geneva to Zurich; PR on wealth creation; PR and propaganda; a salute to the music; best HR blog example); when IT controls communication; reaching out to truck drivers: is podcasting the way?; Lee Hopkins’ report; the music.

Show notes for December 12, 2005

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Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 76-minute conversation recorded live from Concord, California, USA, and Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Download the file here (MP3, 31MB), 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 the free Juice, DopplerRadio, iTunes or Yahoo! Podcasts, or an RSS aggregator that supports podcasts such as FeedDemon).

In this Edition:

Intro

  • 00:25 Shel introduces the show; what the show’s about; how to contribute your comments
  • 02:01 Interview coming up on Tuesday December 13 - Rick Klau, FeedBurner
  • 02:52 We’re experimenting with a new format for the show - let us know what you think

News Briefs

Listeners’ Comments Discussion

  • 25:49 Andrew Marritt says moving from Geneva to Zurich means it’s harder to get to the ski slopes, among other things
  • 30:20 David Phillips with more on the role of PR in wealth creation, and on PR and propaganda
  • 35:54 An anonymous listener salutes our choice of music for show #85
  • 36:43 John Cass says one of the best examples of an HR blog is Microsoft’s Heather Hamilton
  • 40:39 Brother Love shouts out!

Features

  • 41:23 A sorry tale of how IT controls communication in one organization. Is this still prevalent today?
  • 53:51 Reaching out to truck drivers - is podcasting the way?
  • 62:19 From Our Correspondent Down Under: Lee Hopkins’ Report

Outro

  • 69:44 Neville wraps the show; how and where to send your comments; where to find the show notes
  • 71:09 Upcoming interview on Tuesday December 13 with Rick Klau, VP Business Development, FeedBurner
  • 71:25 The FIR community progresses on Frappr
  • 72:16 Outro podsafe music via the Podsafe Music Network - Ragtop Cadillac by George Fletcher-Bourbon Renewal

FIR Show Notes links
Links for the blogs, individuals, companies and organizations we discussed or mentioned in the show are now 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. 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 December 15…

Posted by neville on 12/12 at 10:23 AM

  1. Shel and Neville:

    The line about “If I’d had more time, I’d've written a shorter letter” is attributed variously to Mark Twain and Blaise Pascal. Personally I’d rather listen to a long show than have my purple prose paraphrased, but I’ll compact my comments to the best of my ability.

    The last time I worked somewhere with an IT department (the University of Warwick, where I taught Greek and Roman drama), I received plenty of help and no interference with websites. All I had to do was ask politely, and not only did Computing Services set up a mirror site for my FTP/gopher electronic journal, they created a subdomain so I could create a WWW version as well, and helped me install search tools and wrote scripts to handle feedback forms. No one from Computing Services tried to dictate the appearance or content of the journal site, nor of the three departmental websites I set up.

    This may have been because it was the very early days of the Web (1995) and no one in the administration had thought to develop a policy regarding the way students, faculty, departments, or anyone else on campus used the Web.

    It may have been because the IT people were gratified that someone from the humanities actually wanted to use computers.

    It may have been because I took the time to actually get to know the people whose help I requested, and wanted to learn from them.

    It may even have had something to do with the fact that I was 27, female, and extremely good-looking. But just as not all Americans are monolingual (I read Latin, Greek, Italian, Modern Greek, German, and French), not all IT departments want to control what you say online.

    Posted by Sallie Goetsch (rhymes with "sketch")  on  12/13  at  02:14 PM

  2. Hi Shel and Neville,

    Quick note to comment about the format changes you have suggested. Two words: about time :-). Essentially moving comments towards the end of the show, and summarizing them, were the two changes I would have suggested if asked.

    Actually, I thought I would mention them to Neville when meeting him at Les Blogs, and we ended up chatting up about completely different things…

    Happy holidays, and congratulations for the upcoming one-year anniversary and 100th show.

    Posted by Jeff Clavier  on  12/14  at  11:51 PM

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