Content summary: The 600th episode of FIR is next week; FIR promo: free tickets to Social Media Marketing & Monitoring 2011 conference in San Francisco on May 23; listener comments discussion; Ragan promo; News That Fits – the Burson Marsteller / Facebook kerfuffle: the basics of the story, how the companies responded, ethical issues, what to do: the roles individual firms and the professional associations should play, our roles as communicators and opinion-formers in the social spaces; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Dan York reports on Facebook / Google / Burson Marsteller: the war for control of your information; PollStream promo; Michael Netzley reports from Singapore; music from Ultraviolet Hippopautamus; and more.

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For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, for April 4, 2011: A 74-minute podcast recorded live from Concord, California, USA, and Wokingham, Berkshire, England.

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So, until Monday May 23…

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

One response to “The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #599: May 16, 2011”

  1. […] On Monday May 16, Shel Holtz and I will be discussing this kerfuffle in episode 599 of FIR The Hobson and Holtz Report, our weekly business podcast. If you have an opinion you’d like to share – text or an audio comment – just send it to us at fircomments@gmail.com, or tweet us a link, and we’ll include it in the show. [Update May 16] Podcast published: The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #599: May 16, 2011 […]