Content summary: Follow up on Mattel toy recall crisis; Dan York reports; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Verizon, Starbucks and Comcast PR blunders; the Skype outage clarified; WalMart on Facebook; US intelligence community launches A-Space, an internal social network;…

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Content summary: Tom Keefe’s FIR photos; a special message to Radio TalentZoo listeners; Les Potter’s out of hospital; Alice Marshall’s comment explained; discussion on The Question of The Week from FIR #265: how to address employees profiting from their blogging;…

This interview with Mark Ragan, CEO of Lawrence Ragan Communications, Inc., was conducted on June 7, 2007, at the Ragan/Simply Communicate “Engagement and Social Media” conference in London. Mark asked us to hold the interview when he learned that the…

PR and communications headhunters Indigo Red have launched VlogYourJob.com, the UK’s first online video recruitment website, as a solution for employers to tackle the problem of recruiting in a market where there are more employers than good candidates. Neville Hobson…