Content summary: A special live call-in episode, recorded on BlogTalk Radio, featuring a distinguished panel of experts addressing the issue of PR spam.

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For Immediate Release: Special Live Call-In Show on PR Spam: A 61-minute podcast recorded live from Concord, California, USA, Wokingham, Berkshire, England, and all points in between courtesy of our panelists and call-in participants.

Panel participants included:

• Jason Falls (moderator), Director of Social Media at Doe-Anderson, a Louisville, Kentucky-based advertising agency
• Susan Getgood, an independent marketing and social media consultant
• Paolina Milana and Catherine Hancock, representing Marketwire
• Ruth McFarland, representing Cision
• William Wagner, representing Vocus
• Stowe Boyd, author of /message and innovator of the Twitpitch
• David Phillips, UK-based PR agency veteran and educator, and frequent FIR correspondent

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