Content summary: Dave Fleet, VP of Edelman Digital in Toronto, is our guest co-host. There’s one day left to share your thoughts about FIR by taking the 2011 listener survey. An FIR interview with Jillian Bear of Morton’s The Steakhouse is up. Shel and Dave have a brief discussion. Listener comments. Ragan promo. News That Fits: Facebook launches a subscribe button and Mark Zuckerberg converts his 5-plus million fans to subscribers; BART and a California water agency called out for attempting to produce fake news; Michael Netzley’s Asia Report; the Media Monitoring Minute from CustomScoop; a crisis of reputation for UBS in the rogue trader scandal; German state bans Facebook for business over privacy issues; Dan York’s report; PollStream promo; American Bankers Association magazine offers seven steps to effective social media risk management. Music from Rise Against. And more.
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For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, for September 19, 2011: A 77-minute podcast recorded live from Concord, California, USA, and Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
About Our Guest Co-Host
Dave Fleet leads Edelman’s Digital practice in Toronto. Before joining Edelman, Dave developed and executed strategic and social media communications programs for some of North America’s largest organizations, and also worked for nearly five years within strategic communications in the public sector. His blog, davefleet.com, is dedicated to exploring the intersection of public relations, social media and marketing and he tweets at @davefleet.
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So, until Monday September 26…
(Cross-posted from For Immediate Release, Shel’s and my podcast blog.)
