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Full story: Grounded by the ash
The mainstream media has been full of photos of the ash cloud from the Iceland volcano eruption that’s the cause of a complete shutdown of incoming and outgoing flights in the UK – and now nearly 20 European countries – since last Thursday. Here’s one that I think epitomizes the scale of this natural phenomenon […]
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Full story: The leaders debate gameshow
Thinking about the televised live debate last night between Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg – leaders, respectively, of the Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrats parties – I still have the same view I had after watching it last night: it was a gameshow. See what you think from this 8-minute segment I recorded […]
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Full story: FIR Interview: Christian Gunning, Boingo
In this FIR Interview, co-host Shel Holtz talks to Christian Gunning, director of Corporate Communications for Boingo, which provides wifi service in airports across the US. On Saturday, April 10, an email meant to be used as a test was inadvertently sent, sometimes repeatedly, to Boingo customers. The company’s social media manager saw customers talking […]
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Full story: FIR goes weekly, introduces format changes
Change is inevitable, even for FIR. Effective with our latest episode, FIR will be a weekly podcast, produced on Mondays. The Thursday instalment is now a thing of the past. Additionally, we have made several changes to the FIR format, most resulting from the 2009 listener survey, the results of which were released about a […]
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Full story: The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #542: April 12, 2010
Content summary: FIR goes weekly from today: no more Thursday show, only Monday; other changes inspired by feedback from last year’s listener survey; take advantage of great discounts for NewComm Forum 2010 next week; The New PR wiki (where FIR show notes are published) is still down, Tony Molloy has posted time codes for last […]