Last week Nooked, the RSS search engine and directory of corporate RSS feeds, published the aggregated results of two connected surveys they conducted in March. The first survey aimed to learn more about how industry analysts, journalists and bloggers use RSS; the second, to determine the rate of adoption of RSS in the PR/marketing arena. […]
Month: August 2005
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #63: August 29, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments discussion (pitching journalists; IABC recognition; great iRiver recording; how email spies work); blog etiquette: Steve Rubel and Jeremy Pepper trackback stand-off; Max Hansen’s second report from Blog Business Summit; the latest on Dell hell; Lee Hopkins reports from Australia; communication channels in organizations in times of change. Show notes for August […]
Heed some good PR advice, Dell
In show #63 yesterday of For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, I commented on the latest news in the Dell hell saga as reported by Jeff Jarvis. While the situation looks hopeless, I’d like to think that Dell‘s corporate communicators and PR teams just need a little more pushing to the fountain so […]
Hot recording Google Talk
I installed Hot Recorder on my new Dell PC today, which I use for recording occasional Skype conversations for the For Immediate Release podcast. Hot Recorder is a great application, as I enthused when I first discovered it in May. As a software-based option for recording phone interviews over Skype for use in podcasts, I […]
Blog Day connections
Today is BlogDay, the day when it’s great to be part of a way to make some new connections. So I decided to link to some blogs that I’ve not directly connected to before, all from my PubSub and Technorati watchlists that show bloggers who have linked to some of my posts during the past […]
Microsoft snaps up Teleo
The instant messaging market just shifted up a few gears with the news today that Microsoft has acquired Teleo, the Skype-like internet phone/chat service. In a press release this morning, Microsoft said it plans to use this acquisition as a means to greatly extend the capabilities of MSN Messenger. An announcement on the Teleo website […]