Content summary: Come to the New Communications Forum in March; claims of website fraud against Best Buy; avoiding legal loopholes in intranet policy management; developments in the world of wikis; hacking Skype: 25 tips to improve your Skype experience; Linden Lab releases detailed demographic and other information about Second Life, Boomer Esiason Foundation’s activities in Second Life, and Comverse demos Second Life on mobile phones: more reasons for communicators to pay attention; listeners’ comments discussion; news about Thursday’s show; the music; and more.

Show notes for February 12, 2007

download For Immediate Release podcast

Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 51-minute podcast recorded live from New York City, USA.

Download the file here (MP3, 23MB), 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 Juice, DopplerRadio, iTunes or Yahoo! Podcasts, or an RSS aggregator that supports podcasts such as FeedDemon).

In This Edition:

FIR Show Notes links
Links for the blogs, individuals, companies and organizations we discussed or mentioned in the show are 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 (North America) or +44 20 8133 9844 (Europe); or Skype: fircomments. You can email your comments, questions and suggestions as MP3 file attachments, if you wish (max. 3 minutes / 5Mb attachment, please!). We’ll be happy to see how we can include your audio contribution in a show.

So, until Thursday February 15…

(Cross-posted from For Immediate Release, Shel’s and my podcast blog.)