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The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #348: May 26, 2008

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26 May 2008

Content summary: The May 24 FIR Live call-in fiasco; next FIR Live on June 11; new FIR room on FriendFeed; Michael Netzley reports from Singapore about the Ogilvy Verge conference, The Open Room, and Social Media Breakfast; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; GAP study; the micro threat to big social networks; American Airlines’ PR strategy; Barack Obama is master of the new Facebook politics; PR secrets for startups from Brian Solis, Loic le Meur and Robert Scoble; listeners’ comments…
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Entertainment, Films, Marketing

Suspend your disbelief and enjoy the adventure

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26 May 2008

When my wife and I came out of the cinema yesterday afternoon, after seeing Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, I started thinking about how to summarize what I thought of the film. What would I say if I had only 140 characters or less in which to say it? Here it is: Indiana Jones 4: weak story but a good yarn, boys own stuff. Best actor: Cate Blanchett. 2nd: Henry Jones Junior. I did think it…
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Communication, Experimenting, For Immediate Release, Social Media, Social Networks, Web

Join the FIR room in FriendFeed

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25 May 2008

One thing we like doing and talking about on FIR is experimenting with different and new ways of communicating. And if you have a point of view you want to share with the FIR community, you have multiple ways of doing that. Email, comment lines, direct audio commenting on the website, Facebook group, discussion forum… it’s a long list of places you can use. We’ve just added a new one – a room in FriendFeed. FriendFeed is a relatively new…
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Communication, For Immediate Release, Podcasting, Web

Gremlins strike FIR Live

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25 May 2008

Things didn’t go to plan yesterday for the fourth episode of FIR Live on BlogTalk Radio. Shel’s posted a note on the FIR blog about our cancellation of the call-in show half way through, the reasons for which included poor audio quality and repeated difficulties logging in to our BlogTalk Radio account. Audio quality wasn’t good from the outset. Both Shel and I were connected to the BlogTalk radio call-in number via Skype, as we usually are when we do…
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The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #347: May 22, 2008

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23 May 2008

Content summary: Disney closes a user community; Neville’s tech minute; how social media affects reporters and media coverage; the value of an apology; Ricardo on Spanglish; listener comments; reports from Dan York, David Phillips, and Ricardo from Costa Rica; music from Radio Knives; and more. Listen to FIR now: [display_podcast] Get FIR: Download the MP3 file (27Mb, 59:00) Subscribe to the RSS feed Get the show at iTunes Messages from our sponsors: FIR is brought to you with Lawrence Ragan…
Full story: The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #347: May 22, 2008