Year: 2008

  • FIR Interview: John "Pat" Philbin, former FEMA Communications Director – January 9, 2008

    One of the bigger PR news stories of 2007 involved a press conference staged by the Federal Emergency Management Agency in October to address the California wildfires. FEMA’s External Affairs Director John "Pat" Philbin was slated to take a new…

  • Podcasting gets even easier

    As any podcaster knows, the barriers to entry for starting a podcast are very low. As I often like to describe it, all you need to get going are five things: A computer A microphone Free recording and editing software…

  • Cuts from FIR #308

    Overflow from today’s FIR #308: 1-Minute News Web video revitalizes lunch at your desk Twitter’s productivity cost Download FIR Cuts MP3s – Lunch (5:15) | Twitter (9:14). If you want to automatically receive FIR Cuts as they’re published, subscribe to…

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #308: January 7, 2008

    Content summary: Reminders about FIR Cuts and the FIR Listener Contest; follow-up: intranets 2; the impact of GMnext; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; PR and zoos; PETA and social networks; Lee Hopkins reports on interviews and conferences; listeners’ comments…

  • The big picture with a Nokia N95 8GB

    I’ve had a really superb mobile phone for the past three months – a Nokia N95 8GB, the latest generation of a phone that packs 8 gigs of internal flash storage space, has wifi, GPS and more bells and whistles…