Month: December 2007

  • Cuts from FIR #300

    Yesterday’s marathon FIR #300 resulted in some large chunks being cut: all the 1-Minute News items plus a terrific report from Sallie Goetsch. You can get that content here either by downloading the files or listening here and now. 1-Minute…

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #300: December 10, 2007

    Content summary: The 300th episode; R.I.P. Marc Orchant; follow-up discussions: live Twittering, Technorati rankings, when to release online content; retrospectives from 300 shows: ethics in public relations, corporate blogging, Second Life, developments in public relations; Lee Hopkins reports; the Media…

  • The FIR #300 marathon coming

    Whew! We just completed recording the 300th episode of For Immediate Release: The Hobson and Holtz Report. Quite a marathon session which, as you’ll hear when it’s posted, contains many contributions from members of the FIR community to mark this…

  • In memory of Marc Orchant

    A sad start to the week as I read the news that Marc Orchant died yesterday. Marc was a writer at Blognation US. A week ago, he suffered a massive heart attack and has lain in hospital in a coma…

  • The CIPR ostrich part 2

    Listening to Eric Schwartzman’s interview with Colin Farrington in the latest episode of Eric’s On The Record Online podcast, posted yesterday, I was struck by one over-riding thought. Colin Farrington, the director general of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations…