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FIR Interview: BlogDash Co-Creator David Spinks

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24 October 2010

David Spinks, co-founder of BlogDash – a new resource to aid in blogger outreach – conducts a brief video demo of the site during BlogWorld and New Media Expo in Las Vegas, USA, on Friday, October 15, 2010. Get this video podcast: Download the MP4 file (15.5Mb, 5:46) Get the show on iTunes Subscribe to the FIR Interviews RSS feed Get the FIR app for your iPhone About our Conversation Partner According to his blog, David Spinks is – in…
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Communication, Society, Technology, Trends, Web

The global embrace of the internet

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23 October 2010

I remember when I first got online back in 1989 via CIX, I knew I’d found something magical, something that enabled me to do or discover things way beyond the confines of the computer itself. Then came CompuServe in 1990 which provided a more user-friendly way of being online albeit in a paternalistic walled-garden sort of way. And then in about 1992, I found the internet proper via Demon Internet: what I saw (and still see, really) as Alice’s Wonderland.…
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FIR Interview: Jeffrey Eggen on the Ford Focus Rally America

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20 October 2010

Jeffrey Eggen speaks with FIR co-host Shel Holtz about Ford Motor Company’s new multi-channel promotion to introduce the 2012 Ford Focus, the Focus Rally America. Unveiled at BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2010 in Las Vegas, the promotion – which follows on the heels of the successful Ford Fiesta social media campaign – marries all four types of available media: paid, owned, earned, and social. Get this podcast: Download the MP3 file (5.95Mb, 14:47) Get the show on iTunes Subscribe…
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The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #569: October 18, 2010

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18 October 2010

Content summary: FIR Interview with Joseph Jaffe fixed for Oct 29, Ford interview and video demo from BlogWorld Expo coming soon, thanks to Debi Davis for time codes in show notes; listener comments; Shel reports on BlogWorld Expo; News That Fits: Paul Fabretti explains what Manchester Police’s emergency calls live on Twitter for 24 hours intends to achieve, Dell’s experiment with “braided journalism”, Michael Netzley reports from Singapore, CSR departments are a thing of the past say CEOs, Dan York…
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Advertising, Business, Communication, Mainstream Media, Public Relations, Social Media, Technology, Television

Help with understanding technology in business from the BBC

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17 October 2010

Last month at a Dell social-business event I participated in, I met Jeremy Hillman, the BBC’s business and economics editor, and one of the mainstream media representatives at the event. He was telling me about Technology of Business, a new online TV series from the BBC comprising 24 short features around the role of technology in the world of business, that launched this month. According to the BBC’s press release, each of the four-minute vignettes that make up the series…
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