Content summary: The Bad Pitch Blog bloggers are hosting a teleseminar. An FIR interview with Chris Aung-Thwin and Jack Horwitz of HomelessNation.org interview is up. There will be no FIR Live in July; our next BlogTalk Radio show is set for August 22.We don’t understand the disconnected nature of podcast reviews on iTunes. Dan York reports on interoperability of hosted sites and applications. The Media Monitoring Minute looks at the Amazon acquisition of Zapos.com. News That Fits: a HubSpot study suggests social media releases don’t work as well as traditional releases; Twitter strategy for government; MuckRack offers 130-character press releases; TwitCam integrates streaming video and Twitter commentary. Listeners’ comments, including a discussion of the "free" concept. Music from Wright and Hudson. And, as always, more.
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For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, for June 22, 2009: A 65-minute podcast recorded live from Concord, California, USA.
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(Cross-posted from For Immediate Release, Shel’s and my podcast blog.)
8 responses to “The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #468: July 23, 2009”
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@Dan_Martin FYI, discussed your post re government Twitter strategy on FIR 468 yesterday. [link to post] Starts at about 27:22.
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@jangles Many thanks Neville. Much appreciated. Would you be happy for me to publish the audio clip on @BusinessZone?
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@Dan_Martin feel free to do that, Dan, CC license allows it with attribution.
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@Dan_Martin FYI, discussed your post re government Twitter strategy on FIR 468 yesterday. http://bit.ly/Tvr3q Starts at about 27:22.
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Media update The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #468: July 23, 2009 … [link to post]
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@neillyneil btw, I discussed your Twitter guide on the FIR podcast last week, episode 468. http://bit.ly/Tvr3q Ref @Dan_Martin ‘s scoop :)
@neillyneil btw, I discussed your Twitter guide on the FIR podcast last week, episode 468. http://bit.ly/Tvr3q Ref @Dan_Martin ‘s scoop :)
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