Category: For Immediate Release

  • Take the FIR Listener Survey 2011 and help shape the show of the future

    Ever since Shel Holtz and Neville Hobson started the For Immediate Release podcast series in 2005 with The Hobson and Holtz Report in January of that year, finding out what our listener community thinks and wants has been important to…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #615: September 5, 2011

    Content summary: Vote for FIR on Podcast Alley; it’s Labor Day in the US; Lionel Menchaca interview is up, interviews coming with Jeremiah Owyang, HSBC, Mark Dollins, Mark Hillary; game-based marketing book review is coming; Neville’s impressions of last week’s…

  • FIR Interview: Dell Chief Blogger Lionel Menchaca

    (If you don’t see the video embedded above, view it on YouTube.) We first spoke with Dell’s chief blogger, Lionel Menchaca, in an FIR interview on January 12, 2007, not too long after Dell’s first blog was launched. We spoke…

  • FIR Interview upcoming on Altimeter Group’s Social Business Readiness survey

    Your FIR co-hosts are planning an interview for next week with Altimeter Group‘s Jeremiah Owyang about the release of a new study, "Social Business Readiness," released today – the presentation is embedded below. In preparation for the interview, we’re sharing…

  • Skype’s impact eight years on

    Skype celebrated its eighth anniversary a couple of days ago, quietly and with little fanfare. The internet phone service has come a very long way in this relatively short time. What started in 2003 as a program you installed on…