Content summary: Kristin Brandt from Manic Mommies is guest co-host; FIR Live on BP Gulf oil spill set for December 11; listener comments; Ragan promo on Corporate Editors and Writers Conference; Kristin and Shel discuss mommy blogging; News That Fits: major retailers offer holiday deals on social networks, Neville’s commentary on PR spam, Michael Netzley’s Asia report, Media Monitoring Minute from CustomScoop, new data on employee brand evangelists, Pollstream, Dan York’s report; music from Matthew Ebel.

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About our Guest Co-Host

Kristin Brandt is vice president at Sundin Associates, an award-winning marketing and advertising agency, where she is responsible for account management as well as the development of client web sites and social media strategies.

A full-time working mother with two children, she is also executive editor and co-host of Manic Mommies Media, an emerging media company supporting moms trying to balance work and family life, that has drawn the attention of major brands including General Motors, Real Simple, Mead and Microsoft.

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For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, for March 1, 2010: A 71-minute podcast recorded live from Concord, California, USA, and Natick, Massachusetts, USA.

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So, until Monday December 6…

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