Content summary: We start our 7th year of FIR on January 3; FIR Book Review by Bob LeDrew of ‘ROI of Social Media’ posted, more coming; the FIR Book Club launching this month on BlogTalk Radio, first guest author is Christopher Barger; upcoming FIR Interview this week with Eric Schwartzman about AirBNB; News That Fits: FDA’s social-media ‘guidelines’ befuddle Big Pharma; Dan York reports on the decline of text messaging, the forthcoming Consumer Electronics Show, and more; Ragan promo; listener comments; three emerging technologies starting to have an impact in communications: augmented reality, content curation, HTML5; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; the world’s businesses are going social say Cap Gemini and MIT; Michael Netzley reports from Singapore on a lawsuit between Singapore Press Holdings and Yahoo over copyright, and troubling media narrative around collapsed property prices in China; TemboSocial promo; a lawsuit may determine who owns a Twitter account (and a LinkedIn one); music by The Scarred; and more.
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For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report for January 2, 2012: A 74-minute podcast recorded live from Concord, California, USA, and Wokingham, Berkshire, England.
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So, until Monday January 9…
(Cross-posted from For Immediate Release, Shel’s and my podcast blog.)
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