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New FIR iPhone app launched

Published on July 12, 2010 · 7:46 am UK · 8 comments

in For Immediate Release, Podcasting, Software

If you were a fan of the iPhone or Android app for the For Immediate Release podcasts that we launched in February,  you may have been as dismayed as we were when both apps stopped working properly not long after the launch. The developer, iSites, didn’t respond to email so we kind of left it [...]

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Phone in your post to WordPress

Published on July 4, 2010 · 9:21 am UK · 24 comments

in Blogging, Communication, Podcasting, Social Media, Weblogs

A new feature for users of WordPress.com, the hosted WordPress blog service, was launched this week called Post By Voice – you phone in your blog post rather than type it. To use it, you enable the feature in your WordPress.com blog which generates a secret code. Then, you call a US phone number, enter [...]

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A conversation about pharma and social media

Published on March 22, 2010 · 8:24 am UK · 10 comments

in Business, Communication, Europe, Podcasting, Social Media, Society, WCG

A topic sure to generate commentary and opinion, often passionate, is social media and the pharmaceutical industry. This is especially so in the US with calls over the years by healthcare communicators and others for clarity in the role of social media as a legitimate communication tool in a highly-regulated industry. That culminated in the [...]

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Announcing FIR for iPhone and Android

Published on February 28, 2010 · 1:55 pm UK · 25 comments

in Communication, For Immediate Release, Podcasting, Software, Web

Getting hold of episodes of the For Immediate Release (FIR) podcasts to listen to on your mobile device whenever and wherever you want to is pretty easy. The two most most popular ways to do this are subscribing via iTunes – a prime choice especially if you have an iPhone, iPod or iPod Touch – [...]

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The overwhelming appeal of self-creating your own iPhone app (and soon for Android)

Published on January 25, 2010 · 8:04 am UK · 24 comments

in Communication, Experimenting, For Immediate Release, Innovation, Podcasting, Social Media, Software, Web, Workplace

When I heard about AppMakr last week, a website that lets you create your own iPhone app for $199, I thought, wow! This is getting very affordable – anyone can now create an iPhone app in literally a few clicks, at a relatively low cost. But then I heard about iSites – a website where [...]

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Marking five years as a podcaster

Published on January 3, 2010 · 8:55 am UK · 21 comments

in Business, Communication, Experiences, For Immediate Release, Personal Development, Podcasting, Social Media

Today, January 3, 2010, is rather a special day for Shel Holz and I as it marks the fifth anniversary of For Immediate Release: The Hobson and Holtz Report, the podcast we both started on January 3, 2005. To me, that day five years ago often feels like it was only yesterday. Yet so much [...]

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Ipadio live audio at book launch

Published on September 9, 2009 · 2:02 pm UK · 7 comments

in Books, Communication, Events, Innovation, Mobile, Podcasting

This week has been rather an intense one so far, keeping me at the keyboard most of the time, so I’m quite disappointed that I can’t get into central London today for the launch of International Communications Strategy: Developments in Cross-Cultural Communications, PR and Social Media, a new book by Silvia Cambié and Yang-May Ooi, [...]

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PR Boo #3

Published on August 30, 2009 · 6:15 pm UK · 7 comments

in Communication, Podcasting, Public Relations, Web

Three great items this week: Dave Fleet’s advice for entry-level PR professionals (which I reckon applies to every-level PR professionals); Shel Holtz and firing up StopBlocking.org; and Dave Jones’ report on his colleague Niall Cook updating Hill & Knowlton’s social media guidelines. Listen! Links to the blog posts I talked about: 14 Key Skills & [...]

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Click, speak, publish: it’s that easy

Published on August 23, 2009 · 8:01 pm UK · 12 comments

in Communication, Innovation, Mobile, Podcasting, Social Media, Software, Web

If you want to record audio and post your recording to the web, all without anything other than your iPhone or a web browser, it’s never been easier to do that than now. You’re spoiled for choice with a growing number of web services and iPhone apps, all (currently) free. In March, I discovered Audioboo, [...]

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PR Boo #2

Published on August 23, 2009 · 5:02 pm UK · 4 comments

in Communication, Podcasting, Public Relations, Web

This week, an open invitation to discuss link licensing, blanket pitching or ‘spray and pray’ mass email, and listening to The Doers. Listen! Links to the blog posts I talked about: NLA furore continues (and an invitation to breakfast) – Wadds’ PR Blog Bad PR Works – PR Squared Listen to the Doers – The [...]

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