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The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #188: November 9, 2006

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9 November 2006

Content summary: Leesa Barnes (at left) is guest co-host; Shel’s in Atlanta, Neville’s speaking at a conference; One-Minute News: SEC chair reacts favorably to blogging as disclosure, Hollywood talent agency seeks stars online, Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere is released, Financial Times covers blogs as a threat to brands, Dove scores with a YouTube video, clients come before bloggers says Pete Blackshaw, Starbucks suspends its podcast; Neville talks about Second Life – The Guardian criticized for a ‘first’ claim, and…
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Communication, Events, Marketing, Professional Development, Public Relations, Social Media, Social Networks, Web, Weblogs

Delivering The New PR in London

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9 November 2006

Heading into London this afternoon for the Delivering The New PR conference tomorrow. I’m looking forward to meeting up again with Philip Young, Tom Murphy, Stuart Bruce and Chris Rushton for the fifth in this series of one-day conferences. Over the past year, we’ve helped quite a few communicators around the UK expand their knowledge of what social media can help them achieve in the practice of public relations. Missing from our presenters’ line-up this time is Elizabeth Albrycht who…
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Communication, Europe, Professional Development, Public Relations, Weblogs

EuroBlog 2007 survey

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8 November 2006

Last year’s EuroBlog 2006 survey gave an overview of who in the communication profession in Europe is using blogs and for what purpose. The most interesting result to me was how survey respondents saw the opportunities for and from blogs, with the top result showing PR agencies as wanting to “be cool” through their being seen to adopt leading-edge technology. I wonder what the results would look like a year later. A good chance to find out as the EuroBlog…
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Humour, Technology, Web

Lies and Web 2.0

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8 November 2006

SFGate.com posted a list of the top 10 lies of Web 2.0 which geeky types in particular will find amusing (well, I did). My two favourites: This is not a bubble. Hot parties, overheated PR pitches, and five or six dozen social networking sites are just healthy indicators of a new boom. We’re different from all those other sites. But we have a silly name, open APIs, some flashy Ajax technology, and other features just like the rest of them.…
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The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #187: November 06, 2006

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6 November 2006

Content summary: Shel’s back in Atlanta; Neville’s on his way to two events; One-Minute News: WOMMA guidelines for blogger relations, dropping the hammer on IBM bloggers, a nifty video email service, Constantin’s new PR blog and wiki search engine, a study on teens online, the Guardian’s Web 2.0 edition; Lee Hopkins reports; commentary on a study about successful business blogging; listener comments; the music; and more. [A message from our sponsor: Online Meetings Made Easy with GoToMeeting. Try it free…
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