Content summary: Shel’s on his own; Dell meetup in London Monday night and Dell interviews and a panel discussion are on their way; interview with The 2020 Workplace co-author Jeanne Meister coming; FIR Live could feature Josh Bernoff and Ted Schadler; listener comments and Friendfeed room roundup; news summary covering a social media shutdown that failed, a McDonalds FourSquare campaign, Twitter backgrounds, the growing importance of live online video, and a study on the likelihood of Twitter followers to buy a brand’s products; Media Monitoring Minute; News That Fits: PR messages are getting lost, Dan York’s report, a word from Pollstream, aligning marketing and PR; music from Blue Turtle Seduction; and more.

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For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, for September 20, 2009: A 68-minute podcast recorded live from Concord, California, USA.

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So, until Monday September 27…

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