Content summary: FIR face-to-face again in Wokingham, England; FIR Geek Dinner update; thoughts on this week’s CIPR social media workshop and the Ragan/SimplyCommunicate social media masterclass; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Dan York on the Podcasting and New Media Expo and new tools for podcasters including the MicMate, plus a question for listeners on emailing to wikis; Forrester case study on Northwestern Mutual’s enterprise Web 2.0 journey; AIM and Zune integrate social networking; email spamming and the Monster mash;…

Content summary: FIR face-to-face in Wokingham, England; FIR Geek Dinner update; vote for FIR at Podcast Alley; Lee Hopkins reports; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; General Motors sponsors the Manic Mommies podcast; Neville’s thoughts about PodCamp Ireland with Shel’s on the Ragan conference and the Podcast & New Media Expo; listeners’ comments discussion including Georgetown University students’ comments and questions; and more. [Messages from our sponsors: FIR is brought to you with Lawrence Ragan Communications, serving communicators worldwide for…

Irish tech start-up Cubic Telecom wowed participants at the recent TechCrunch 40 conference in San Francisco with their MAXRoam SIM card for mobile phones. The company claims it’s the world’s first universal SIM card offering favourable roaming and call rates anywhere in the world. Cubic is now poised to launch Cubic Mobile in October, a dual mode GSM/WiFi phone which uses the MAXRoam SIM card to enable users to roam anywhere in the world at low mobile rates as well…