Content summary: Listeners’ comments discussion (podcast artwork and iTunes; fake blogs; ‘sprawlopolis’; Blogger.com and Captcha; how to measure podcast listenership; what’s "The Giant Global Focus Group" at IABC EuroComm?); The Spinfluencer interviews Heather Green; Neville guests on Britcaster podcast #3; anonymous Publix employee blog vanishes; measuring blog effectiveness; Guidewire responds to blog survey criticisms; PRSA cancels Florida conference; legal woes for Apple over iPod nano; Lee Hopkins’ report; upcoming FIR interviews and book reviews.
Show notes for October 24, 2005
Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, an 84-minute conversation recorded live from Concord, California, USA, and Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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In this Edition:
Intro:
- 00:31 Shel introduces the show; what the show’s about; what’s in this edition; how to give your feedback; show notes
- 02:08 Upcoming interview today with Jonathan Mast of Sedgwick CMS
- 02:48 Shel speaking on Council of Public Relations Firms panel in New York on Wednesday which he’ll record as an FIR podcast
Listeners’ comments discussion:
- 04:51 Glenn Slaven on podcast artwork not showing in iTunes, and on fake blogs
- 09:26 Sallie Goetsch loves ‘sprawlopolis’; and on Blogger and Captcha
- 12:24 Howard Harawitz offers some suggestions on how to measure podcast listenership
- 16:54 Marc Wright wants to know what the panel discussion on ‘The Giant Global Focus Group’ at the IABC EuroComm conference in December is all about
News & Features:
- 23:29 The Spinfluencer – Eric Schwartzman interviews Heather Green, Business Week technology editor and BW’s Blogspotting blogger
- 30:09 Neville’s guest slot on the third Britcaster podcast
- 32:58 The blog by the anonymous Publix employee blogger has vanished (show #77 has the background to this story)
- 34:50 How do you measure the effectiveness of blogs? KD Paine has some suggestions; we think it’s quite a complex subject
- 43:19 Guidewire responds to critical questioning by Constantin Basturea on the validity of the results of their blogging survey presented at the BlogOn conference last week
- 49:53 PRSA cancels its annual conference in Florida because of Hurricane Wilma
- 56:02 Problems could continue for Apple over the iPod nano screen scratches, with a lawsuit filed in the US
- 61:05 From Our Correspondent Down Under: Lee Hopkins – on Apple’s 75% reported market share of mp3 players; comms within a company that doesn’t communicate; corporate cliches; the semantic web: man’s search for meaning; McDonalds, the new battlelines and the possibility of our evangelism being a waste of energy and time
Outro:
- 72:12 Shel’s extra item related to the Podictionary definition of ‘celebrate’
- 75:11 Neville outros the show; how to give your feedback, upcoming interviews
- 76:54 A queue of books for podcast review – Naked Conversations, The Virtual Handshake, Communities Dominate Brands, Beyond Bullet Points, and Return on Customer
- 78:17 The music – Grey (Citizens Cope) by Brianna via Garageband.com
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So, until Thursday October 27…
(Cross-posted from For Immediate Release, Shel’s and my podcast blog.)