Content summary: Edelman/Technorati survey results, AOL’s instant messenger hits the blogosphere, a threat to Microsoft Office, Apple’s upcoming announcement, a new communications podcast, the Conference Board podcasts, a report from Dan York, a cautionary tale of comment spam and fake blogs, listener comments, and way, way more. Show notes for October 6, 2005 Welcome to […]
Category: Podcast – The Hobson & Holtz Report
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #75: October 10, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments discussion (employee engagement; bad PR gimmick with a fake blog; how to stimulate blog comments); Cillit Bang PR debacle update; helping victims of the Pakistan earthquake; US court ruling on not identifying an anonymous blogger; Yahoo! Podcasts launches; Google’s RSS reader; CBC employee lockout follow-up; Lee Hopkins’ report; the new FIR […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #76: October 12, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments, Emerce Eday in Amsterdam, RSS use study, Microsoft’s proposed RSS logos, Skype cordless handset, Microsoft and Yahoo link IM clients, Google Library project update, The Spinfluencer interviews Ron Bloom, reactive vs. proactive communication, Apple launches video iPod, the anonymous Publix employee blogger, and more. Show notes for October 12, 2005 Welcome […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #77: October 17, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments discussion (more on, and from, the anonymous Publix blogger; loving the new FIR logo; transcribing show notes; proactive vs. reactive again); IABC’s new website; software to help eliminate jargon from writing; Technorati’s latest state of the blogosphere; Lee Hopkins’ report; The Conference Board Europe’s communications meeting; no podosphere PR yet; PR […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #78: October 20, 2005
Content summary: Splogs and Blogspot, questionable observations from IABC’s Canada conference, an intimidating panel, a new publisher lawsuit against Google, LA Podcasters’ Freeway Series, Dan York’s contribution, a fake Harriet Miers blog, two blogging studies, listener comments, and more. Show notes for October 20, 2005 Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #79: October 24, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments discussion (podcast artwork and iTunes; fake blogs; ‘sprawlopolis’; Blogger.com and Captcha; how to measure podcast listenership; what’s "The Giant Global Focus Group" at IABC EuroComm?); The Spinfluencer interviews Heather Green; Neville guests on Britcaster podcast #3; anonymous Publix employee blog vanishes; measuring blog effectiveness; Guidewire responds to blog survey criticisms; PRSA […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #80: October 27, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments discussion (creating a reverse thesaurus; what’s in a name: ‘business continuity planning’; more on hearing about blogs; Libsyn glitches with podcast downloads); Yahoo RSS white paper; faux research from Advertising Age; the use of blogs during labour disputes; TypePad has service problems from rapid growth; OpenOffice 2.0 is out; Waxmail for […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #81: October 31, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments discussion; launch interview with Jen McClure of Society for New Communciations Research; Forbes magazine attacks blogs; minding the conversation gap; Lee Hopkins report. Show notes for October 31, 2005 Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, an 86-minute conversation recorded live from Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Concord, California, […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #82: November 2, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments; Euroblogs survey; Steve Rubel and the cancer blog; speaking engagements; the anti-women ad executive who resigned; Bacon’s cluelessness; Panasonic’s character blog; Arla Foods three blogs; Dan York’s Report; pimping for podcast votes; and more. Show notes for November 2, 2005 Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, an […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #83: November 7, 2005
Content summary: How we recorded today’s show; views on Hawaii; listeners’ comments; RSS discussion; The Spinfluencer interviews Alex Ben Block; the ousting of the Financial Times’ editor; US Democrats defeat blogger immunity bill; new survey on employee communication; how market researchers can use blogs; Lee Hopkins’ report; and more. Show notes for November 7, 2005 […]
Bare bones show notes continue, sorry
Regular listeners to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report might be wondering what’s happened with the show lately, what with the lack of detailed show notes and some erratic timing in posting the show MP3 files. Such things are down to me at the moment, sorry to say. With Shel on holiday in […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #84: November 10, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments (getting online when traveling abroad); strife in podcast land; a lawsuit against Apple goes international; don’t play non-podsafe music: the warning from Adam Curry’s recent experience; blaming bloggers for rioting in France; eBay introduces more RSS feeds; Dan York’s Report; search strategies for PR; questions from a Financial Times feature on […]
FIR Speakers & Speeches: November 3, 2005 – CiB & IABC UK Panel Discussion
This panel discussion in London, organized by the British Association of Communicators in Business and the IABC UK Chapter, was titled "Join the Virtual Revolution." The organizers described the event: "Digital media is changing the way we communicate. Just as we’ve got our heads around the internet, email and mobile technology, a new wave of […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #85: November 14, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments (Blue Boxes and phone phreaks; the music industry and podsafe music; recommended IT Conversations interview; Daily Telegraph starts podcasting; more on the anti-blog backlash; regulating American political blogs); Wikipedia defends itself; report from the Portable Media Expo; most powerful women bloggers list includes a man; Podcaster News launches; My Syndicaat RSS […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #86: November 17, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments (the FIR comment line; FIR RSS feeds; Shel’s website calendar; group vs. individual blogs; blogs and podcasts as conversation; the appropriateness of blogs as part of integrated marketing programs, Poynter’s E-Media Tidbits blog); Neville’s trip to the University of Sunderland, FIR has a Frappr map, more on Waxmail, Heather Green’s new […]
Join the FIR community
If you’re a listener to one of the For Immediate Release podcasts and you’d like to let the readers of your blog or website know about FIR, we have some graphics you can display on your own site. Here’s how: Choose which graphic (below) you’d like and save it to your own computer. Then, upload […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #87: November 21, 2005
Content summary: Show 100 wish; The Sunderland experience; listeners’ comments; new free RSS and wiki tools; angry AOL bloggers push boycotts; blocking bots from stealing content; Google’s new head of communications in Europe and other developments; Eric Schwartzman’s Spinfluencer report; join the FIR community; upcoming interviews and book reviews; and more. Show notes for November […]
FIR Book Review: “Naked Conversations”
In this edition of For Immediate Release book reviews, Neville and Shel discuss "Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers," the new book on blogging and businesses by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel, to be published in January 2006. The Book: "With a foreword by Tom Peters, author of such […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #88: November 24, 2005
Content summary: The Washington Post offers content mashups, IBM lets employees podcast internally, recording with Waxmail, our review of Naked Conversations, Richard Edelman’s post on PR’s readiness for discontinuous change, it’s time for annual predictions, pro- and anti-IKEA websites, Amazon’s new product wikis, character blogs, a report from Dan York, why CEOs don’t blog, listener […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #89: November 28, 2005
Content summary: AOL Journals update, a cheat sheet lets customers circumvent your IVR system, an ex-Googler starts a blog, replacing press releases with blogs, the future of newspapers, Steve Rubel’s high-level discussion on TheNewPR, an open-source marketing example, listener comments, and more. Show notes for November 28, 2005 Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson […]