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    FIR Cut: Social software round-up

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    Neville Hobson

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    27 January 2009

    Overflow from FIR #417 on January 26, 2009. Social software round-up: The New Twhirl (preview release) for Team Seesmic-Twhirl Chat Catcher: Blog comments happen everywhere… PingPressFM: My real-time personal newswire Blubrry Powerpress Podcast Plugin from RawVoice: updated Download this podcast (4.36Mb, 9:28) If you want to automatically receive FIR Cuts as they’re published, subscribe to the RSS feed. (What are FIR Cuts?)

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    The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #417: January 26, 2009

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    Neville Hobson

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    26 January 2009

    Content summary: Shel’s returning from Hawaii; congrats to Scott Monty; next FIR Live on Blogtalk Radio on Feb 7; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: journalists say frustration with PR websites kills media stories, scandal over a Belkin employee’s questionable marketing tactics and the impact on Belkin’s reputation, 10 tips for PR and marketing in tough times, is live blogging breaking news a good idea?; listeners’ comments discussion and FIR Friendfeed Room round-up; advance news on planned…

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  • Communication, Entertainment, Films, Marketing, Public Relations, Social Media, Virtual Communities, Web

    Watching the Watchmen

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    Neville Hobson

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    26 January 2009

    I’m watching with great interest some of the social media communication Dan Light is involved with as part of the marketing for Watchmen, a movie about American superheroes based on a DC Comics series, due out in the UK on March 6. Directed by Zack Snyder – who directed 300, adapted from a classic Frank Miller graphic novel – the flic is at the top of my ‘must see’ list at the cinema for this Spring. I’ve worked with Dan…

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  • Business, Communication, Experimenting, Social Media, Social Networks, Software, Web, Weblog Tools

    Does Google Friend Connect have a point?

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    Neville Hobson

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    25 January 2009

    Early last month, I signed up for Google Friend Connect, the service that Google says lets you offer visitors to your site the means to be part of a community. It’s great, I think, as in a very short space of time, the number of people who have joined this site through Google Friend Connect has now reached ninety. On the site, in the right-hand sidebar (scroll down a bit to see it), you’ll find the Google Friend Connect widget…

    Full story: Does Google Friend Connect have a point?
  • Blogging, Social Media, Software, Twitter, Weblog Tools, Weblogs

    Two tools to add value to your WordPress blog

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    Neville Hobson

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    25 January 2009

    One of the features that make self-hosted WordPress such an excellent content management system or blogging platform (take your pick of description) is the easy way you can extend functionality through adding third-party plug-ins. I use a lot of plug-ins – currently 35 active ones on this blog – that provide both you (the visitor or subscriber and, perhaps, conversationalist) and me (the content publisher) with new or additional functionality that make our interaction and overall experience with the blog…

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