Content summary: Our condolences to FIR friend Barbara Nixon; correction from #618 on updating Facebook pages; FIR Interview coming on SunLife content portal; a word from this week’s podsafe music creator; News That Fits: what Google+ will mean for brands; Michael Netzley reports from Singapore; Ragan promo; do websites drive more B2B sales than social media?; listener comments; what do you think of the new Delicious?; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Dan York reports on Facebook’s frictionless sharing and more; are PR counsellors missing an important outreach channel?; Pollstream promo; Porter Novelli launches TrendingTarget social media monitoring tool; update on publishing listener survey results; music from Relevant Discord; and more.
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For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, for October 3, 2011: A 71-minute podcast recorded live from Concord, California, USA, and Wokingham, Berkshire, England.
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So, until Monday October 10…
(Cross-posted from For Immediate Release, Shel’s and my podcast blog.)