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The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #217: February 22, 2007

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22 February 2007

Content summary: Come to the New Communications Forum next month; Dan York clarifies identity versus authentication with OpenID; Skype 3.1 beta, SkypeFind and Skype Pro upgrade; CIPR publishes social media guidelines; getting teams to use wikis; Google launches hosted business applications in direct competition with Microsoft; Lee Hopkins reports; discussion: blogging is a complete waste of time, says Dee Rambeau – would you agree?; listeners’ comments discussion; news about next Monday’s show; the music; and more. [Messages from our sponsors:…
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Ethics, Professional Development, Public Relations, Reputation, Social Media

CIPR publishes social media guidelines

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22 February 2007

Last November, the UK’s Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) issued a call to action to the PR community inviting comment on a discussion paper about the opportunities and risks social media present in public relations practice. The CIPR’s plan was to incorporate it into the association’s code of conduct for members, following the public consultation. Today, CIPR President Lionel Zetter announced that the guidelines have now been published, as an advisory note to the code of conduct (not sure…
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Public Relations, Social Networks

Lunch with Paull Young

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22 February 2007

Peripatetic Aussie PR blogger Paull Young is in the UK on the latest leg of his around-the-world expedition, and I had the pleasure of meeting up with him yesterday for a spot of lunch and a good old chat. First time we’d met although I certainly knew of Paull already – he’s the one who kick-started some timely attention on the thorny topic of astroturfing that generated considerable discussion in the online PR community in the middle of last year. We…
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Blogging, NevilleHobson.com, Weblogs

A year of great conversations

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22 February 2007

Today marks the first anniversary of this blog when I switched to WordPress after being with TypePad since 2004. Over 660 posts with more than 2,670 comments and trackbacks during the past twelve months. Phew! That’s a lot of chat and a pretty good signal-to-noise ratio. It includes some great conversations – take a look at the ’10 most commented posts’ list in the sidebar to see some of those conversations. It also includes (rather, excludes) well over 27,000 spam comments…
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Software, Weblog Tools, Weblogs

Bugfixes for latest WordPress

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21 February 2007

If you upgraded to or installed the new WordPress version 2.1 that was released last month, you’ll be interested in a major bugfix released today: […] Version 2.1.1 includes about 30 bug fixes, mostly minor things around encoding, XML-RPC, the object cache, and HTML code. It’s available for immediate download on our download page. Not only that, WordPress has released a security patch for version 2.0.7 to upgrade it to version 2.0.9: Version 2.0.9 only includes the security update, which…
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