Year: 2008

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #329: March 20, 2008

    Content summary: Shel on the road; FIR Live on BlogTalk Radio this Saturday; EuroBlog 2008 presentations and videos now available; first FIR Video Interview posted: Rick Murray, Edelman; Paull Young presents the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Microsoft: from Blue…

  • Next live FIR call-in show: Sat March 22

    Is public relations two-way? In a blog post, Forrester Research’s Josh Bernoff suggested both advertising and PR are one-way, rendering them inappropriate for the management of social media in an organization. Yet public relations students routinely learn that their chosen…

  • The substance of FriendFeed

    ReadWriteWeb has a poll asking: "Are you using FriendFeed?" I am, so I’ve answered the poll. The single biggest result is the 42% saying they’ve been using FriendFeed since before March, plus the 13% who’ve signed up "after all the…

  • FIR Video Interview: Rick Murray, Edelman – March 15, 2008

    The EuroBlog 2008 conference took place in Brussels, Belgium, last week. Described as an event focused on “Social media and the future of PR: New ideas, new research, new business,” the two-day event brought together over 100 people from the…

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #328: March 17, 2008

    Content summary: Next FIR Live on BlogTalk Radio on March 22; first FIR video interview to be posted; initial impressions of EuroBlog 2008; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; changes at the top in Linden Lab herald next stage of…