Category: For Immediate Release

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #555: July 12, 2010

    Content summary: The new FIR iPhone app and a contest for free downloads; new FIR interviews posted; review of ‘Open Leadership’ book coming this week; listener comments and Friendfeed FIR Room round-up; 5 minutes on… Google Street View cars back…

  • New FIR iPhone app launched

    If you were a fan of the iPhone or Android app for the For Immediate Release podcasts that we launched in February,  you may have been as dismayed as we were when both apps stopped working properly not long after…

  • FIR Interview: Jennifer Cohen on Uni-Ball Facebook campaign

    The recent Uni-ball campaign in the US to give away 10,000 pens a day via Facebook launched a round of criticism of companies that concentrated efforts on Facebook to the detriment of their own websites. eConsultancy’s Patricia Robles wrote a…

  • FIR Interview: Jack Holt, Sr Strategist for Emerging Media, US Department of Defense

    The United States Department of Defense (DoD) in February adopted a new policy toward staff access to social sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube and others. The policy, which covers everyone from Pentagon-based staff to soldiers in the field,…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #554: July 5, 2010

    Content summary: It’s the first show of the month: please vote for FIR at Podcast Alley; new Speakers & Speeches and FIR Interview podcasts posted, more coming; introducing our new sponsor: Pollstream; listener comments and FIR FriendFeed Room round-up; 5…