• As someone who enjoys experimenting, I count this as a first – a conversation with an influential lawyer-blogger, podcaster and tweeter in the UK, recorded and released as a podcast. I had a great 30-minute conversation this afternoon with Mike Semple Piggot aka CharonQC on Twitter, the man behind Charon QC The Blawg, Insite Law Magazine podcasts and an awful lot more. We had an unstructured, informal conversation on how communication can help companies and law firms in today’s climate.…

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  • Content Summary: The recently-published Edelman 2009 Trust Barometer formed the principal backdrop for a wide-ranging one-hour FIR Live on BlogTalk Radio discussion on the topic of trust from the communicator’s perspective. Discussion participants were FIR co-hosts Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz, special guest Richard Edelman, President and CEO of the Edelman PR agency group, together with listeners who called in to the live show with their questions as well as those in conversation in the FIR Live chat room at…

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  • The British media’s continuing love affair with Twitter has taken a huge leap into the mainstream with “Twitter Crazy,” an easy-to-understand guide to getting into microblogging published in today’s Telegraph Weekend, the lifestyle supplement in The Daily Telegraph on Saturdays. Written by freelance writer Lucy Atkins (who’s on Twitter, natch), the guide – which takes up two pages in the broadsheet paper – is a good and well-written introduction to a social phenomenon that should be simple to grasp by…

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  • Thinking a little about trust, the topic of discussion this evening in FIR Live on BlogTalk Radio, and looking around the web I came across a post from US blogger David Armano, via Tim Malbon, containing the image you see above. David calls this the “Professional Prism of Trust.” He doesn’t explain it; I suppose it is obvious, so perhaps it doesn’t need explanation – according to David’s chart, you trust your doctor far more than you trust your social…

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  • In this FIR Interview, Shel Holtz talks with Lee Aase about the origins of social media at Mayo Clinic, the role of Legal and other departments in supporting his efforts within the conservative and highly-regulated healthcare environment, and the launch of Mayo’s latest social media property, a culture-focused blog. Get this podcast: Download the MP3 file (15Mb, 32:58) Get the show on iTunes Subscribe to the FIR Interviews RSS feed About our Conversation Partner Lee Aase is manager of Syndication…

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