Content summary: Shel’s on a trip through Asia for IABC; Larry Weber FIR Book Review is up; listener survey update; listener comments discussion; Ragan promo; News That Fits: the UK riots and your opinions on the British government’s thinking about restricting access to and use of social media, Michael Netzley reports from Singapore, the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop, LinkedIn’s ham-fisted launch of social ads but at least we can opt out, Pollstream promo, Dan York’s report, the FCC announces plan to update 911 to receive texts and video; Shel and Neville together as usual next week; music from The Flavor Foundation; and more.
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For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, for August 15, 2011: A 66-minute podcast recorded live from Wokingham, Berkshire, England.
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So, until Monday August 22…
(Cross-posted from For Immediate Release, Shel’s and my podcast blog.)
2 responses to “The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #612: August 15, 2011”
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