Content summary: Shel’s in Las Vegas for BlogWorld and New Media Expo; follow-up: Pepsi apologizes over sexist iPhone app; Shel’s update on a Boston hospital that jerks its knees and blocks employee access to social media sites; Dan York goes up a mountain and reports on blogs as spokespeople, business avatars, and more; FIR experiments with Google Wave; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: gagging the Guardian applies analog law in a digital age and how Twitter saved the day, interesting results in US PRWeek’s social media survey, HSBC Bank launches website that highlights customer opinion, streams and feeds are a mess so ensuring email’s continued relevance; listener comments discussion; news about next week’s shows; music from The Gentlemen Callers; and more.
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For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, for October 15, 2009: A 64-minute podcast recorded live from Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, and Wokingham, Berkshire, England.
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@aden_76 glad you found that FIR report re HSBC/First Direct worthwhile, Aden, thanks. Keeping an eye on the site! [link to post]
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Finally got chance to listen to @jangles talking about the FD & HSBC review sites, I agreed with everything said. http://bit.ly/11l5Wf 36:20
@aden_76 glad you found that FIR report re HSBC/First Direct worthwhile, Aden, thanks. Keeping an eye on the site! http://bit.ly/11l5Wf
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