Content summary: Update on SOPA; FIR Interviews posted: with John Clemons, interim IABC Executive Director, and a Google+ Hangout video interview with Stuart Bruce and Phil Gomes on Wikipedia and PR; inaugural FIR Book Club date reminder: January 27; review of Social Media Strategist coming soon; GaggleAmp webinar January 31; two winners of latest GaggleAmp/FIR contest; News That Fits: three candidates for new PR definition; Ragan promo; Dan York reports on the Consumer Electronics Show, and more; the state of PR; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Facebook shows relentless global growth; Michael Netzley reports from Singapore on Reputation Institute white paper on how companies in China can build competitive reputations; listener comments; TemboSocial promo; Walgreens turns to paid social media warriors in battle with Expressscript; music from Andy’s Doomsday Device; and more.

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For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report for January 16, 2011: A 72-minute podcast recorded live from Concord, California, USA, and Wokingham, Berkshire, England.


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So, until Monday January 23…

(Cross-posted from For Immediate Release, Shel’s and my podcast blog.)