Archive for the ‘CustomScoop’ tag
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #663: August 6, 2012
Content summary: FIR Interview with IABC executive director Chris Sorek published; new interview with Cisco’s John Earnhardt coming; Canada’s super holiday; Be Positively Social on August 14, says Frank Eliason; Ragan promo; News That Fits: Is the PR world underestimating Reddit’s importance?; Michael Netzley reports from Singapore on social media used for recruiting in China, and more; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; with influence rank, Salesforce.com shows the shape of recruitment to come; listener comments; new angles on content marketing; TemboSocial promo; Dan York reports on Mars Curiosity, the Olympics via VPN, radio and podcasting, and more; how Alaska Airlines is addressing online criticism; music from Anouschka; and more.
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For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report for August 6, 2012: A 74-minute podcast recorded live from Concord, California, USA, and Wokingham, Berkshire, England.

Links to websites, blog posts and other content we discuss in the show are posted as Delicious bookmarks to facilitate your connection with the discussions and sharing of that content.

Names of blogs, individuals, companies and organizations we discussed or mentioned in the show are posted to the FIR Show Notes pages at The New PR Wiki. You can contribute time stamps – see the show notes home page for info.

Share your comments or questions about this show, or suggestions for future shows, in the FIR FriendFeed Room. You can also email us at fircomments@gmail.com; call the Comment Line at +1 206 338 7960 (North America), +44 20 3239 9082 (Europe), or Skype: fircomments; comment at Twitter: twitter.com/FIR. You can email your comments, questions and suggestions as MP3 file attachments, if you wish (max. 3 minutes / 5Mb attachment, please!). We’ll be happy to see how we can include your audio contribution in a show.
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So, until Monday August 13…
(Cross-posted from For Immediate Release, Shel’s and my podcast blog.)
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #662: July 30, 2012
Content summary: FIR Interview with Philip Sheldrake and Stephen Waddington on “Share This” published; interview with Chris Sorek, IABC executive director, coming; how to run an effective tweetup: #EalingTU shows the way; Ragan promo; News That Fits: how social should business leaders be, or how much more do you need convincing?; Dan York in Vancouver, Canada, responds to Brian Person’s comments about the new iPhone podcasts app, Instagram, and more; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; The Chik-Fil-A controversy and social media; listener comments including Ari Adler on the sorry state of journalism; #NBCFail at #London2012; TemboSocial promo; Americans are more comfortable engaging online than in person says survey; music from Fifteenth Summer; and more.
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Messages from our sponsors: FIR is brought to you with Lawrence Ragan Communications, serving communicators worldwide for 35 years, www.ragan.com; Save time with the CustomScoop online clipping service: sign up for your free two-week trial, at www.customscoop.com/fir; and TemboSocial (formerly Pollstream): helping you transform your communications goals into exciting strategies that will enable you to engage, educate and inform your customers and employees online, pollstream.com/fir/.
For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report for July 23, 2012: An 84-minute podcast recorded live from Concord, California, USA, and Wokingham, Berkshire, England.

Links to websites, blog posts and other content we discuss in the show are posted as Delicious bookmarks to facilitate your connection with the discussions and sharing of that content.

Names of blogs, individuals, companies and organizations we discussed or mentioned in the show are posted to the FIR Show Notes pages at The New PR Wiki. You can contribute time stamps – see the show notes home page for info.

Share your comments or questions about this show, or suggestions for future shows, in the FIR FriendFeed Room. You can also email us at fircomments@gmail.com; call the Comment Line at +1 206 338 7960 (North America), +44 20 3239 9082 (Europe), or Skype: fircomments; comment at Twitter: twitter.com/FIR. You can email your comments, questions and suggestions as MP3 file attachments, if you wish (max. 3 minutes / 5Mb attachment, please!). We’ll be happy to see how we can include your audio contribution in a show.
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So, until Monday August 3…
(Cross-posted from For Immediate Release, Shel’s and my podcast blog.)
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #660: July 16, 2012
Content summary: FIR Interviews with Marcus Nelson and Chris Sorek coming soon; Ragan promo; News That Fits: executives need to catch up with social media; Michael Netzley reports from Singapore on recent reports on digital talent in Asia and ICT country rankings; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Barclays says sorry but do corporate apologies make any difference?; listener comments discussion including Kris Gallagher’s and a perspective on Progresso and BPA, and Norbert Mayer Witmann’s idea for an FIR/No Agenda debate (we like that!); striking evidence of high-speed mobile’s approaching ubiquity; TemboSocial promo; Dan York reports on what Twitter could have been, the sale of Digg, and more; O2′s lesson on how to engage with unhappy customers on Twitter; music from Woodfish; and more.
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Messages from our sponsors: FIR is brought to you with Lawrence Ragan Communications, serving communicators worldwide for 35 years, www.ragan.com; Save time with the CustomScoop online clipping service: sign up for your free two-week trial, at www.customscoop.com/fir; and TemboSocial (formerly Pollstream): helping you transform your communications goals into exciting strategies that will enable you to engage, educate and inform your customers and employees online, pollstream.com/fir/.
For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report for July 16, 2012: An 85-minute podcast recorded live from Concord, California, USA, and Wokingham, Berkshire, England.

Links to websites, blog posts and other content we discuss in the show are posted as Delicious bookmarks to facilitate your connection with the discussions and sharing of that content.

Names of blogs, individuals, companies and organizations we discussed or mentioned in the show are posted to the FIR Show Notes pages at The New PR Wiki. You can contribute time stamps – see the show notes home page for info.

Share your comments or questions about this show, or suggestions for future shows, in the FIR FriendFeed Room. You can also email us at fircomments@gmail.com; call the Comment Line at +1 206 338 7960 (North America), +44 20 3239 9082 (Europe), or Skype: fircomments; comment at Twitter: twitter.com/FIR. You can email your comments, questions and suggestions as MP3 file attachments, if you wish (max. 3 minutes / 5Mb attachment, please!). We’ll be happy to see how we can include your audio contribution in a show.
To stay informed about occasional FIR events (eg, FIR Live), sign up for FIR Update email news.
So, until Monday July 23…
(Cross-posted from For Immediate Release, Shel’s and my podcast blog.)
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #656: June 18, 2012
Content summary: FIR Book Review of The Virtual Self is up; next FIR Book Club is on June 29 with Gini Dietrich (and a book review of Marketing in the Round by Gini Dietrich and Geoff Livingston coming from Bob LeDrew); Frito-Lay FIR Interview is up; FIR meet-up at the IABC conference planned for June 27; discussion on FIR Live On Air on June 16; News That Fits: PR kerfuffles embracing Walmart in the US and a 9-year-old school dinner blogger in the UK: what we should learn; Michael Netzley reports from Singapore on helpful tips on how to succeed with Google+ Hangouts On Air, the war for India’s internet, and more; Ragan promo; Twitter’s threat to social media editors; listener comments; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; the Financial Times and Time magazine each pass the 1 million followers milestone on Google+; Dan York reports on gTLDs, WordPress 3.4, podcasting metrics, and more; TemboSocial promo; are executives using social media as a crutch for building company culture?; Neville solo with next week’s show while Shel’s at the IABC World Conference; Neville speaking at the South West Corporate Communicators’ summer meet-up in Bath on June 25; music from Northside Garage; and more.
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Messages from our sponsors: FIR is brought to you with Lawrence Ragan Communications, serving communicators worldwide for 35 years, www.ragan.com; Save time with the CustomScoop online clipping service: sign up for your free two-week trial, at www.customscoop.com/fir; and TemboSocial (formerly Pollstream): helping you transform your communications goals into exciting strategies that will enable you to engage, educate and inform your customers and employees online, pollstream.com/fir/.
For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report for June 18, 2012: An 89-minute podcast recorded live from Wokingham, Berkshire, England, and Concord, California, USA.

Links to websites, blog posts and other content we discuss in the show are posted as Delicious bookmarks to facilitate your connection with the discussions and sharing of that content.

Names of blogs, individuals, companies and organizations we discussed or mentioned in the show are posted to the FIR Show Notes pages at The New PR Wiki. You can contribute time stamps – see the show notes home page for info.

Share your comments or questions about this show, or suggestions for future shows, in the FIR FriendFeed Room. You can also email us at fircomments@gmail.com; call the Comment Line at +1 206 338 7960 (North America), +44 20 3239 9082 (Europe), or Skype: fircomments; comment at Twitter: twitter.com/FIR. You can email your comments, questions and suggestions as MP3 file attachments, if you wish (max. 3 minutes / 5Mb attachment, please!). We’ll be happy to see how we can include your audio contribution in a show.
To stay informed about occasional FIR events (eg, FIR Live), sign up for FIR Update email news.
So, until Monday June 25…
(Cross-posted from For Immediate Release, Shel’s and my podcast blog.)
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #655: June 11, 2012
Content summary: Reminder that the next FIR Live is on Saturday June 16: a panel discussion on influencer marketing; new FIR Book Review coming from Bob LeDrew of Your Virtual Self; Breaking News: IPR Measurement Commission approves standards for traditional media; News That Fits: Altimeter’s flawed mobile workforce report; Gartner identifies organizational implications of the rise of mobile devices; Ragan promo; Dan York reports on why world IPv6 launch matters to communicators, and more; listener comments; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; is it the maturing or end of the QR code?; Mark Story reports from Washington, DC; no report this week from Michael Netzley in Singapore; TemboSocial promo; Twitter, where off the record is on the record; music by Spicehouse; and more.
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Messages from our sponsors: FIR is brought to you with Lawrence Ragan Communications, serving communicators worldwide for 35 years, www.ragan.com; Save time with the CustomScoop online clipping service: sign up for your free two-week trial, at www.customscoop.com/fir; and TemboSocial (formerly Pollstream): helping you transform your communications goals into exciting strategies that will enable you to engage, educate and inform your customers and employees online, pollstream.com/fir/.
For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report for June 11, 2012: A 72-minute podcast recorded live from Concord, California, USA, and Wokingham, Berkshire, England.

Links to websites, blog posts and other content we discuss in the show are posted as Delicious bookmarks to facilitate your connection with the discussions and sharing of that content.

Names of blogs, individuals, companies and organizations we discussed or mentioned in the show are posted to the FIR Show Notes pages at The New PR Wiki. You can contribute time stamps – see the show notes home page for info.

Share your comments or questions about this show, or suggestions for future shows, in the FIR FriendFeed Room. You can also email us at fircomments@gmail.com; call the Comment Line at +1 206 338 7960 (North America), +44 20 3239 9082 (Europe), or Skype: fircomments; comment at Twitter: twitter.com/FIR. You can email your comments, questions and suggestions as MP3 file attachments, if you wish (max. 3 minutes / 5Mb attachment, please!). We’ll be happy to see how we can include your audio contribution in a show.
To stay informed about occasional FIR events (eg, FIR Live), sign up for FIR Update email news.
So, until Monday June 18…
(Cross-posted from For Immediate Release, Shel’s and my podcast blog.)
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #652: May 21, 2012
Content summary: Michael Netzley in Singapore still without voice; FIR Speakers & Speeches podcast of Neville’s PRII conference presentation is up; next FIR Live on influence marketing set for June 16; Neville speaking at Like Minds conference in Exeter this week: discount price for FIR listeners; GaggleAmp update; News That Fits: high-growth companies in Europe embrace social media says Google-sponsored survey; GM ends Facebook advertising but Ford doesn’t; Ragan promo; Dan York reports on integrating Soundcloud and Flipboard (with added comment about Player FM), an internship opportunity with the Internet Society, and more; listener comments; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; CIPR’s call to action for feedback on PR guidelines about Wikipedia engagement; TemboSocial promo; is it time for a C-level social media executive?; music from The Eisenhowers; and more.
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Messages from our sponsors: FIR is brought to you with Lawrence Ragan Communications, serving communicators worldwide for 35 years, www.ragan.com; Save time with the CustomScoop online clipping service: sign up for your free two-week trial, at www.customscoop.com/fir; and TemboSocial (formerly Pollstream): helping you transform your communications goals into exciting strategies that will enable you to engage, educate and inform your customers and employees online, pollstream.com/fir/.
For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report for May 21, 2012: A 73-minute podcast recorded live from Wokingham, Berkshire, England, and Concord, California, USA.

Links to websites, blog posts and other content we discuss in the show are posted as Delicious bookmarks to facilitate your connection with the discussions and sharing of that content.

Names of blogs, individuals, companies and organizations we discussed or mentioned in the show are posted to the FIR Show Notes pages at The New PR Wiki. You can contribute time stamps – see the show notes home page for info.

Share your comments or questions about this show, or suggestions for future shows, in the FIR FriendFeed Room. You can also email us at fircomments@gmail.com; call the Comment Line at +1 206 338 7960 (North America), +44 20 3239 9082 (Europe), or Skype: fircomments; comment at Twitter: twitter.com/FIR. You can email your comments, questions and suggestions as MP3 file attachments, if you wish (max. 3 minutes / 5Mb attachment, please!). We’ll be happy to see how we can include your audio contribution in a show.
To stay informed about occasional FIR events (eg, FIR Live), sign up for FIR Update email news.
So, until Monday May 28…
(Cross-posted from For Immediate Release, Shel’s and my podcast blog.)
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #651: May 14, 2012
Content summary: FIR interview with Grantoo co-founder and CEO Dimitri Sillam is up. The Speakers & Speeches file from Neville’s talk in Dublin is coming this week. Neville recounts the talk he and Philip Sheldrake gave at the Wikimedia UK Annual General Meeting over the weekend. A discount code is available for FIR listeners interested in attending Like Minds Exeter 2012. News That Fits: brand humanization is not a social media fad; Ragan Communications promo; the rise of social influence marketing with Klout and PeerIndex; listener comments discussion; CustomScoop’s Media Monitoring Minute; Dan York’s report addresses audio apps for the iPad and iPhone, DRM, and the 2,000-plus applications received for new gTLDs; social TV on the ‘second screen’ evolves into content in its own right; TemboSocial promo; half of UK internet users say online ads are worth it in exchange for free content; music from The Scarred; and more.
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Messages from our sponsors: FIR is brought to you with Lawrence Ragan Communications, serving communicators worldwide for 35 years, www.ragan.com; Save time with the CustomScoop online clipping service: sign up for your free two-week trial, at www.customscoop.com/fir; and TemboSocial (formerly Pollstream): helping you transform your communications goals into exciting strategies that will enable you to engage, educate and inform your customers and employees online, pollstream.com/fir/.
For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report for May 14, 2012: A 74-minute podcast recorded live from Wokingham, Berkshire, England, and Concord, California, USA.

Links to websites, blog posts and other content we discuss in the show are posted as Delicious bookmarks to facilitate your connection with the discussions and sharing of that content.

Names of blogs, individuals, companies and organizations we discussed or mentioned in the show are posted to the FIR Show Notes pages at The New PR Wiki. You can contribute time stamps – see the show notes home page for info.

Share your comments or questions about this show, or suggestions for future shows, in the FIR FriendFeed Room. You can also email us at fircomments@gmail.com; call the Comment Line at +1 206 338 7960 (North America), +44 20 3239 9082 (Europe), or Skype: fircomments; comment at Twitter: twitter.com/FIR. You can email your comments, questions and suggestions as MP3 file attachments, if you wish (max. 3 minutes / 5Mb attachment, please!). We’ll be happy to see how we can include your audio contribution in a show.
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So, until Monday May 21…
(Cross-posted from For Immediate Release, Shel’s and my podcast blog.)
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #649: April 30, 2012
Content summary: FIR Book Review of “Reality is Broken” is up, another book review coming this week; News That Fits: Klout gears up for brand pages and social media dominance; Ragan promo; information control at the London Olympics 2012 vs ambush marketers (and activists); Michael Netzley’s Asia report from Singapore; listener comments including John Cass on CREWE; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Dan York reports on experimenting with SoundCloud, and more; your next conference can benefit from some TEDification; TemboSocial promo; #firtweetupdublin and #priiconf12; music from Burning Shapes; and more.
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Messages from our sponsors: FIR is brought to you with Lawrence Ragan Communications, serving communicators worldwide for 35 years, www.ragan.com; Save time with the CustomScoop online clipping service: sign up for your free two-week trial, at www.customscoop.com/fir; and TemboSocial (formerly Pollstream): helping you transform your communications goals into exciting strategies that will enable you to engage, educate and inform your customers and employees online, pollstream.com/fir/.
For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report for April 30, 2012: A 71-minute podcast recorded live from Concord, California, USA, and Wokingham, Berkshire, England.

Links to websites, blog posts and other content we discuss in the show are posted as Delicious bookmarks to facilitate your connection with the discussions and sharing of that content.

Names of blogs, individuals, companies and organizations we discussed or mentioned in the show are posted to the FIR Show Notes pages at The New PR Wiki. You can contribute time stamps – see the show notes home page for info.

Share your comments or questions about this show, or suggestions for future shows, in the FIR FriendFeed Room. You can also email us at fircomments@gmail.com; call the Comment Line at +1 206 338 7960 (North America), +44 20 3239 9082 (Europe), or Skype: fircomments; comment at Twitter: twitter.com/FIR. You can email your comments, questions and suggestions as MP3 file attachments, if you wish (max. 3 minutes / 5Mb attachment, please!). We’ll be happy to see how we can include your audio contribution in a show.
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So, until Monday May 7…
(Cross-posted from For Immediate Release, Shel’s and my podcast blog.)
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #648: April 23, 2012
Content summary: Pinterest update cont’d: Pinterest is now losing users says Business Insider; Neville speaking at PRII annual conference in Dublin on April 26, Bernie Goldbach there too, FIR Tweetup Dublin on April 25; FIR Book Reviews of “Reality is Broken” and “#FAIL: The 50 Greatest Social Media Screwups” coming soon, FIR Interview with Causes.com coming soon; News That Fits: How can members of the European Parliament be credible “middle men” to citizens and not be cut out of the system because of the internet?; Dan York reports on ICANN TLDs, WordPress, and more; Ragan promo; 60 percent of Wikipedia articles for companies and clients of respondents to survey who were familiar with them had factual errors; listener comments discussion; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Michael Netzley reports from Singapore on China’s Bo Xilai scandal, and more; TemboSocial promo; to blog, Tumblr, Facebook or…; music from Keller Williams; and more..
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Messages from our sponsors: FIR is brought to you with Lawrence Ragan Communications, serving communicators worldwide for 35 years, www.ragan.com; Save time with the CustomScoop online clipping service: sign up for your free two-week trial, at www.customscoop.com/fir; and TemboSocial (formerly Pollstream): helping you transform your communications goals into exciting strategies that will enable you to engage, educate and inform your customers and employees online, pollstream.com/fir/.
For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report for April 23, 2012: A 75-minute podcast recorded live from Wokingham, Berkshire, England, and Concord, California, USA.

Links to websites, blog posts and other content we discuss in the show are posted as Delicious bookmarks to facilitate your connection with the discussions and sharing of that content.

Names of blogs, individuals, companies and organizations we discussed or mentioned in the show are posted to the FIR Show Notes pages at The New PR Wiki. You can contribute time stamps – see the show notes home page for info.

Share your comments or questions about this show, or suggestions for future shows, in the FIR FriendFeed Room. You can also email us at fircomments@gmail.com; call the Comment Line at +1 206 338 7960 (North America), +44 20 3239 9082 (Europe), or Skype: fircomments; comment at Twitter: twitter.com/FIR. You can email your comments, questions and suggestions as MP3 file attachments, if you wish (max. 3 minutes / 5Mb attachment, please!). We’ll be happy to see how we can include your audio contribution in a show.
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So, until Monday April 30…
(Cross-posted from For Immediate Release, Shel’s and my podcast blog.)
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #644: April 2, 2012
Content summary: Neville and Shel are both traveling, but Shel’s solo this week with a contribution from Neville; two new interviews are up, one with Dachis Group CTO Erik Huddleston and the other with PulsePoint Group’s Michael Gale and Jacklyn Allgayer about the new study, “The Socially Engaged Enterprise;” another interview is coming later this week with Sara Folkerts of Sprint on the mobile company’s program to train employees to represent the organization in social channels; a new blog worth looking at is PR Examples; Shel’s meeting with PRSA’s Keith Trivitt in New York; News That Fits: as access to information increases, trust is declining, yet CEOs who tweet are trusted more; Ragan promo; Michael Netzley’s Asia Report, including a look at the Melbourne Mandate from the Institute for Public Relations; are communicators ready to begin producing mobile content?; Media Monitoring Minute from CustomScoop; Facebook is reportedly preparing a major upgrade of its search utility to produce robust social search; Dan York’s report; TemboSocial promo; games and gamification make inroads as the U.S. State Department sponsors a crowdsourcing game to identify five (fake) criminals around the world; music from The Fire Apes; and more.
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Messages from our sponsors: FIR is brought to you with Lawrence Ragan Communications, serving communicators worldwide for 35 years, www.ragan.com; Save time with the CustomScoop online clipping service: sign up for your free two-week trial, at www.customscoop.com/fir; and TemboSocial (formerly Pollstream): helping you transform your communications goals into exciting strategies that will enable you to engage, educate and inform your customers and employees online, pollstream.com/fir/.
For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report for April 2, 2012: A 61-minute podcast recorded live from Concord, California, USA.

Links to websites, blog posts and other content we discuss in the show are posted as Delicious bookmarks to facilitate your connection with the discussions and sharing of that content.

Names of blogs, individuals, companies and organizations we discussed or mentioned in the show are posted to the FIR Show Notes pages at The New PR Wiki. You can contribute time stamps – see the show notes home page for info.

Share your comments or questions about this show, or suggestions for future shows, in the FIR FriendFeed Room. You can also email us at fircomments@gmail.com; call the Comment Line at +1 253 780 9125 (North America), +44 20 3239 9082 (Europe), or Skype: fircomments; comment at Twitter: twitter.com/FIR. You can email your comments, questions and suggestions as MP3 file attachments, if you wish (max. 3 minutes / 5Mb attachment, please!). We’ll be happy to see how we can include your audio contribution in a show.
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So, until Monday April 9…
(Cross-posted from For Immediate Release, Shel’s and my podcast blog.)