Content summary: Vote for FIR at Podcast Alley; Shel’s in Chicago and Neville’s back in the UK; Dan York reports on live video streaming Barack Obama, new TweetDeck features, DailyShoot.com, and more; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: Would you hire a "certified" social media consultant?, Coca-Cola tries facial-recognition on Facebook, SEO writing is a must-have skill, children who use technology are better writers says survey; listeners’ comments discussion and FIR Friendfeed Room round-up; Neville’s co-hosting the Dell Social Media B2B Huddle on December 7; music from Antiqcool; and more.

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For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, for October 15, 2009: A 65-minute podcast recorded live from Chicago, Illinois, USA, and Wokingham, Berkshire, England.

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So, until Monday December 7…

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