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The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #232: April 16, 2007

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16 April 2007

Content summary: Talking on other podcasts: podcast411, Melcrum podcast, Forward podcast, PodLeaders, Engaging Brands; Coca-Cola launches Virtual Thirst contest in Second Life; Lee Hopkins is back!; highlights of Poynter’s Eyetrack 2007 study; contest to design the new Jardin des Halles in Second Life; social networking update; automatic news makes headlines and money; listeners’ comments discussion; news about Thursday’s show, and next week’s shows; the music; and more. [Message from our sponsor: Save time with the CustomScoop online clipping service: sign…
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On a brace of podcasts

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15 April 2007

Last month, I spoke at Melcrum’s Social Media Forum in London. During the event, Melcrum’s James Brown interviewed me for the new podcast Melcrum planned to launch. The first podcast was launched last week. While you might find my segment interesting, I’m sure you’ll find the rest of the content in the 16-minute show more so. I thought the views and opinions from conference participants on what they’re doing internally with social media especially interesting. A great start by Melcrum…
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The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #231: April 12, 2007

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13 April 2007

Content summary: Eric Schwartzman interviews David Greising, chief business correspondent at the Chicago Tribune; Dan York asks what does a “corporate blog portal” need to have to be successful; David Phillips reports on value and values in PR; Shel from Chicago on a press release white paper; listeners’ comments discussion; the music; and more. [Message from our sponsor: Save time with the CustomScoop online clipping service: sign up for your free two-week trial, at www.customscoop.com/fir.] Show notes for April 12,…
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Business, Communication, Public Relations, Reputation

Dropping a clanger

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12 April 2007

Here’s a story that’s been in the news in the UK during the past few days that, on the face of it, could spell disaster for the transport company concerned: The organiser of a Devon music festival has spoken of her horror at seeing a £45,000 grand piano fall off the back of a removal firm’s lorry. […] when the instrument, regarded as the “Rolls Royce of pianos”, was being lifted off the lorry, it crashed over. […] The piano…
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Troubleshooting RSS formatting problems

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11 April 2007

During the past week, I’ve noticed that this blog’s RSS feed has been displaying content as single blocks of unformatted text. No paragraphs, no working links, just blocks of text. I’ve had a number of emails from subscribers, too, pointing this out. After a bit of digging around – prompted by this thread on the FeedBurner forum – I’ve narrowed the reason down to the likely culprit: the latest version 7.7 of PodPress, the WordPress plugin that enables podcasting on this site, which…
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