Last month, when Fredrik and I advertised in our respective blogs for freelance writers to join us in a communication project we’re jointly working on, we were taking the next steps in a Big Experiment we’d started. This Big Experiment is to do with collaborative working and the role of blogs, and what that means […]
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iTunes podcatcher already makes an impact
The release of iTunes 4.9 a few days ago and its podcatching capability is already having an effect on downloads of For Immediate Release, the bi-weekly business podcast that Shel and I present. Just looking at the download and referrer stats in LibSyn, our file hosting service, shows a very interesting difference already in which […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #46: June 30, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments (on iTunes 4.9 and bandwidth, IABC Cafe posts, blogging the Nortel AGM); podcasts and Polish sausage; the launch of iTunes 4.9; Virgin Atlantic’s New York podcasts; PR Week UK talks about blogs; IABC International Conference; IABC Fellows; FIR celebrates 50 shows on July 14. Show notes for June 30, 2005 Welcome […]
New resource for business podcasts
My podcasting co-presenter Shel has started a new resource page on The New PR Wiki to list business podcasts in one convenient location. I’ve just added a couple to the list; if you know of any, please add them. The New PR Wiki | Business Podcast List
Apple podcast subscriptions top a million in two days
In just two days, people using the new version of iTunes have subscribed to more than a million podcasts, TechWeb News reported late yesterday. On Tuesday, Apple launched iTunes 4.9, the latest version of the free digital music player software, that includes support for podcasting. For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, the bi-weekly […]
UK focus on blogs from PR Week
PR Week UK published a feature on blogs in this week’s edition of the PR industry’s magazine, out today. It’s the first real focus on the medium in the UK from a PR perspective. Entitled Blogs cast a shadow, the feature should be a big help in raising awareness of blogs as a business communication […]
TypePad gets ready to roll out new features
If your blog is hosted by TypePad, this would be a good weekend to give your blog a break: […] The TypePad team suggests that since this is a holiday weekend, you call it a day at 5PM, head to your local watering hole and raise a glass to webloggers everywhere. When you return to […]
TypePad’s new authentication features in place
Six Apart is working very quickly indeed this weekend to roll out the new features in TypePad that I mentioned yesterday as I can already see some of them in place. For starters, they’ve increased the file storage allowance to 500Mb (up from 100Mb) and increased the monthly bandwidth allowance to 5Gb (up from 3Gb). […]
Steve Rubel’s first podcast
Sunday morning is a great time to listen to podcasts, new discoveries as well as a favourite or two as I sip my cuppa (Dave Winer’s Morning Coffee Notes is a great accompaniment with the first cup of tea). This morning, I’ve listened to one new one – Steve Rubel’s first podcast which he recorded […]
TypeKey authentication enabled
Last night, I enabled TypeKey authentication for commenting on this blog. If you go to any post to leave a comment, you’ll notice this new line of text above the form fields you fill in with your name, etc: If you have a TypeKey or TypePad account, please Sign In It’s purely voluntary – if […]
Book review podcast: Todd Cochrane’s Podcasting
A few weeks ago, I received the copy of Podcasting: The Do It Yourself Guide by Todd Cochrane that I’d ordered from Amazon UK. As a business podcaster myself and a regular listener to Todd’s podcast, Geek News Central, I wondered how Todd’s book on podcasting would address the topic. Well, he’s done an excellent […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #47: July 4, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments (positive opinions about podcasts; negative opinions about Virgin’s New York podcasts; sans-serif fonts and the new generation; is open source marketing open?; a suggestion for FIR #50; mixing a genuine CEO blogger with a fake Toyota Yaris blog); Six Apart upgrades TypePad; call for ideas for blogging IABC’s next conference; Steve […]
Blog censorship and the impact on doing business in China
The many conversations in recent weeks about blog censorship in China won’t lead to any meaningful conclusions, I reckon. While the first amendment rights to free speech that many bloggers passionately post about is a US concept (and hardly likely to make inroads in China any time soon), it is something I also strongly believe […]
It’s all happening in France – Part 3
Business Week, 11 July edition: […] Turns out, smoke-filled cafés aren’t the only places where the French like to spend hours in existential debate. France has become a nation of bloggers. An estimated 5% of residents have set up blogs, a far greater percentage than in most other countries, including the U.S., where an estimated […]
EDS keeps blogging guidance simple
As more companies start blogging – and the list is gaining ground – more are also making publicly available their guidelines on blogging, primarily focused on what the ground rules they have put in place are for employees who blog publicly so everyone knows the boundaries. Good recent examples include IBM, Thomas Nelson Publishers, Hill […]
Way to go, London!
Just arrived in London for a meeting later today to be greeted with the news everywhere that the 2012 Olympic Games will be held in London. As I write this in my hotel room near Hyde Park, some air force jets have just flown over trailing red, white and blue smoke. Terrific! So London beat […]
Safe and back in Amsterdam
A quick post – just arrived back in Amsterdam. I am amazed by the over 20 emails and more than a dozen voicemails I’m picking up now from family, friends and concerned readers asking if I’m ok. Thank you, everyone. Yes, I am! I’ve been in London over the past two days. Caught up in […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #48: July 7, 2005
Content summary: The London bombings; communication plan for new media available for download; listeners’ comments (on mixing a real CEO blogger with a fake blog; explaining open source marketing; critical analysis of Virgin’s New York podcasts; political PR in the US and EU; a new podcast browser); report on raising awareness in the UK about […]
Fox journalist says ‘Terrorism ok in Paris’
The London bombings yesterday are fresh in everyone’s minds. Now, 38 dead and over 700 seriously injured. The death toll will probably rise. You wouldn’t wish that on any other city, would you? Paris, for example? Yet that is a growing reaction to John Gibson, a Fox News journalist in the US, and what he […]
Ballmer interview turns communication upside down
Watching Robert Scoble’s video interview with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is the confirmation for me that formal, pre-planned and carefully-controlled organizational communication has now reached an evolutionary end point. Traditionally, planning and managing communication in organizations is a function managed by people skilled in particular areas of communication (corporate, marketing, PR, investor, internal, etc). So […]