Content summary: An extra-hefty holiday episode; Happy Thanksgiving to our listeners in the US; Neville is at the “New Media in Marketing and Communications Strategy” conference in Barcelona (which he is chairing) while Shel is with family in Las Vegas for the holiday; the Chuck Hester interview about LinkedIn is available; Dan York reports; more congratulatory messages on episode 400, including one from our former weekly correspondent, Lee Hopkins; Media Monitoring Minute from CustomScoop; Neville talks with Keith Childs from GM Europe at the Barcelona conference; Sallie Goetsch shares sound bytes from a panel on “Social Media for the Non-Geek”; special Thanksgiving Day listener contributions; what communicators are thankful for; music from Steve Stellavato; and more.

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For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, for November 24, 2008: A 62-minute podcast recorded live from Wokingham, Berkshire, England, and Concord, California, USA.

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(Cross-posted from For Immediate Release, Shel’s and my podcast blog.)