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Full story: Blogger relations and full transparency
Shel and I had quite a robust discussion about the Wal-Mart and Edelman blogger relations campaign yesterday in show #119 of FIR: The Hobson & Holtz Report. The first time we’ve engaged in debate in the style (without the politics) of CNN Crossfire, the TV debate show that ran for nearly 20 years. In essence, […]
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Full story: The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #119: March 13, 2006
Content summary: An introduction from our “sponsors”; more podcasting for the IABC conference; podcast listener measurement and advertising; should all PR pros blog?; update on Wal-Mart, Edelman PR, transparency and disclosure; the role of Flash and Ajax in online communication; Lee Hopkins reports; listeners’ comments discussion (Macfan and Heidi Miller’s hard drive; social media and […]
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Full story: More choice with WordPress widgets
Some interesting moves going on with the free WordPress.com hosted blog service in the area of ease of use in design and layout that adds to its attraction as an alternative to TypePad, the hosted service you pay for. Coming this week are WordPress Sidebar Widgets, functionality that lets you click-and-drag elements around in your […]
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Full story: Frameworks for panel moderation
As someone who’s moderated a few conference panels in recent months, and is preparing for doing another one in June, I found Guy Kawasaki’s tips on how to be a great moderator quite useful: Don’t over-prepare the panelists. Do prepare yourself in advance. Never let panelists use PowerPoint. Never let panelists use anything special. Make […]
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Full story: WordPress upgraded
I’ve just upgraded WordPress on this blog to version 2.0.2 which was released last week. It’s described as a security fix with recommendations to do the upgrade. It also look as though there are quite a few bugfixes, so upgrading is a good idea. As I was running version 2.0.1 before, the upgrade was simple […]