Content summary: This is episode #600!; interviews for Shel and Neville; Shel’s on the road; listener comments discussion including Burson Marsteller follow-up, Friendfeed FIR Room round-up; Ragan promo; News That Fits – super-injunctions that gag the mainstream media but not anyone else: balancing privacy, freedom of speech, the law and Twitter is uncharted territory; Michael Netzley reports from Singapore; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Comcast sets off firestorm in response to tweet; corporate marketing and communication strategies are going global: survey; listener Harry Hawk reports from Puerto Rico; Pollstream promo; Dan York reports on 6 things communicators should know about IPv6; NLRB faults company for firing employees over Facebook posts; music from Belladonna; and more.
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For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, for May 23, 2011: A 69-minute podcast recorded live from Wokingham, Berkshire, England, and Overland Park, Kansas, USA.
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So, until Monday May 30…
(Cross-posted from For Immediate Release, Shel’s and my podcast blog.)
One response to “The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #600: May 23, 2011”
[…] On May 23, my podcasting partner Shel Holtz and I marked a milestone number for our weekly business podcast For Immediate Release: The Hobson and Holtz Report, usually referred to simply as ‘FIR’ – episode number 600. […]