The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #769: August 18, 2014

FIRNew FIR interview coming this week with Gerard Braud and Melissa Agnes, authors of posts with conflicting views of using social media in a crisis; FIR Podcast Network host Chuck Hester appeared on TWiT’s The Social Hour as a LinkedIn expert; alert to IABC members: servers suffered a cyber-attack, no passwords or credit cards compromised, make sure your virus protection is up-to-date asks Executive Director Carlos Fulcher;

Quick News: Marking ten years since episode one of Adam Curry’s Daily Source Code and the beginning of podcasting, Snapchat is more popular than Twitter amongst 18-34 year-olds in the US says comScore, embeds of Facebook posts up 50 percent since the launch of Facebook Newswire, if you think robots can’t do your job think again; Ragan promo;

News That Fits: The absence of common sense among some PRs (and others) in the wake of Robin Williams’ death; are we paying enough attention to “dark social”?; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; listener comments from the FIR Podcast Community on Google+; UK audience for digital news are shifting to mobile says Ofcom; Igloo Software promo; the past week on the FIR Podcast Network; marketing lessons from the #IceBucketChallenge in support of #StrikeOutALS;

Music from Pretty Visitors; and more.

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For Immediate Release: The Hobson and Holtz Report for August 18, 2014: A 95-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.

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So, until Monday August 25…

Posted by neville on 08/18 at 06:01 AM
  1. Nice podcast! I like how you utilized Delicious to organize the content. That is a pretty interesting strategy. Thank you!

    Posted by Ryan  on  08/22  at  07:46 AM

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