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Free webinar on GaggleAmp set for January 31

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10 January 2012

At FIR, we’ve been talking about GaggleAMP since last autumn. Since we started using GaggleAMP, over 100 of our listeners have joined our Gaggle and, with their help, we have achieved a message reach of over 2.25 million. Based on the statistics we get from our MP3 host, LibSyn, we’ve seen a jump in the number of downloads that matches the amplification of our message. Some of our listeners, including Chris Abraham, have also started using GaggleAMP to their benefit.…
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The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #633: January 9, 2012

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9 January 2012

Content summary: New FIR Book Review (The Like Economy) and FIR Video Interview via Google+ Hangout (Eric Schwartzman) are up; interviews with John Clemons, Bob Fine coming; inaugural FIR Book Club conversation with guest author Christopher Barger set for January 27; discount for FIR listeners signing up for Social Media Monitoring Training in London with Marshall Sponder on January 26; announcing free FIR/GaggleAmp webinar on January 31; News That Fits: PR effort to find a solution for Wikipedia restrictions and…
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Can you really control who says what about the 2012 Olympics?

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9 January 2012

Reuters reports that 70,000 unpaid volunteers recruited for the London Olympics this summer have been warned not to give away breaking news about athletes or disclose the location of politicians and celebrities through online comments or pictures posted on social media sites. Clearly, it makes sense to establish the ground rules on “social communicating,” as you would expect any responsible organization to do. What’s allowed and what isn’t. But also the positive: what’s encouraged, how to do it, from whom…
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WHB: A new host for a new year

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8 January 2012

In November 2011 I made a decision that, in early 2012, I’d move this blog and some other web properties to a new hosting service. From today, that service is WebHostingBuzz and I’d like to introduce you to them. Founded a decade ago, WebHostingBuzz (WHB for short) offers a wide range of hosting services – web hosting, business web hosting, reseller hosting, virtual private servers and dedicated servers – as well as specialized services such as WordPress, Joomla, Magento and…
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PR is seventh most stressful job

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7 January 2012

That’s an improvement over 2010 when PR ranked second, according to this report in CorpComms magazine. The report focuses on stress negatives, but note that stress can be good for you as well ( http://goo.gl/1bkHr ). It’s all about balance. Embedded Link CorpComms – News – 2046 Pr Is Seventh Most Stressful Job CorpComms – News – 2046 Pr Is Seventh Most Stressful Job: the only monthly magazine for the in-house corporate communicator, offering advice on all their career challenges…
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