2012

February

• FIR Book Club #1: “Social Media Strategist” Author Christopher Barger

• FIR Book Review: Intern Nation by Ross Perlin

January

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #636: January 30, 2012

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #635: January 23, 2012

• FIR Interview: Walgreens Social Media Director Adam Kmiec

• FIR Interview: Social Media Monthly Publisher and Editor Bob Fine

• FIR Book Review: YouTube for Business, by Michael Miller

• FIR Book Review: The Social Media Strategist, by Christopher Barger

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #634: January 16, 2012

• FIR Interview: Stuart Bruce and Phil Gomes on PR and Wikipedia

• FIR Interview: John Clemons, Interim Executive Director, IABC

• Free webinar on GaggleAmp set for January 31

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #633: January 9, 2012

• FIR Video Interview with Eric Schwartzman on Collaborative Consumption

• First FIR Book Club meeting set for January 27 with guest author Christopher Barger

• FIR Book Review: The Like Economy, by Brian Carter

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #632: January 2, 2012

2011

December

• FIR Book Review: ROI of Social Media, by Guy R. Powell, Steven W. Groves and Jerry Dimos

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #631: December 26, 2011

• FIR Book Club Starts in January 2012

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #630: December 19, 2011

• FIR Book Review: Humanize, by Jamie Notter and Maddie Grant

• FIR Video Panel Discussion: Le Web 2011

• FIR Book Review: Think Before You Engage, by Dave Peck

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #629: December 12, 2011

• FIR Video Interview: Sprinklr.com Founder and CEO Ragy Thomas

• Speakers & Speeches: Shel Holtz on open employee access to social media

• FIR Cut: Lawsuit could end medical gags against bad online reviews

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #628: December 5, 2011

November

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #627: November 28, 2011

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #626: November 21, 2011

• FIR Interview: Tony Loftis on using social media to find his missing daughter

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #625: November 14, 2011

• FIR Interview: Chad Warren on Adobe SocialAnalytics

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #624: November 7, 2011

• FIR Interview: Healthcare Social Media Specialist Chris Boyer

October

• The Hobson and Holtz Report - Podcast #623: October 31, 2011

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #622: October 24, 2011

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #621: October 17, 2011

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #620: October 10, 2011

• FIR Speakers and Speeches: Panel Discussion - Companies after the passing of an iconic leader

• FIR Interview: Toby Ward on the 2011 Social Intranet Survey

• FIR Interview: Darin Diehl, AVP, SunLife Canada Web

• FIR Speakers and Speeches: October 2011—Shel Holtz on Content Curation

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #619: October 3, 2011

September

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #618: September 26, 2011

• The Hobson and Holtz - Podcast #617: September 19, 2011

• FIR Interview: Jillian Beard, Morton’s Steakhouse

• Join the FIR GaggleAmp experiment

• FIR Cut - Choosing the right social platform for reaching the media

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #616: September 12, 2011

• FIR Book Review: The Influencing Machine by Brooke Gladstone and Josh Neufeld

• FIR Interview: Jeremiah Owyang, Altimeter, on Social Business Readiness

• FIR Interview: Glenn Gaudet, President and Founder, GaggleAmp

• FIR Interview: Betony Taylor and Aden Davies on HSBC social media newsroom

• FIR Interview: Mark Dollins on communication competencies

• Take the FIR Listener Survey 2011 and help shape the show of the future

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #615: September 5, 2011

August

• FIR Interview: Dell Chief Blogger Lionel Menchaca

• Interview upcoming on Altimeter Group’s Social Business Readiness survey

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #614: August 29, 2011

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #613: August 22, 2011

• FIR Interview: Lee Hopkins on Twitter and symbolic convergence theory

• FIR Book Review - Enchantment by Guy Kawasaki

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #612: August 15, 2011

• FIR Book Review: Everywhere, by Larry Weber

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #611: August 8, 2011

• FIR Book Review: Measure What Matters, by Katie Paine

• FIR Interview: David Spark on content marketing

• FIR Cut: Crowdsourcing The Big Mac Index

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #610: August 1, 2011

July

• FIR Live #23 - July 30, 2011: Every Company is a Media Company

• FIR Speakers and Speeches: July 2011 SF Curators Salon

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #609: July 25, 2011

• FIR Interview: Jonny Bentwood on Tweetlevel and Bloglevel

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #608: July 18, 2011

• FIR Interview: Cisco’s John Earnhardt on ‘The Network’ social newsroom

• Next FIR Live - July 30: Every company is a media company

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #607: July 11, 2011

• FIR Plus: A test drive of Google+ Hangout

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #606: July 4, 2011

June

• FIR Interview: Bill Calder, managing editor, Intel Free Press

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #605: June 27, 2011

• FIR Interview: Brian Solis

• FIR Speakers and Speeches: Donna Papacosta on digital storytelling at IABC 2011 World Conference

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #604: June 20, 2011

• Speakers & Speeches: Shel Holtz on being a media company at IABC 2011 World Conference

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #603: June 13, 2011

• FIR Interview - Kansas City weather podcaster Ed Roberts

• New call-in number for Europe

• FIR Interview: Georgette Tan

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #602: June 6, 2011

• FIR Book Review: The Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk

May

• FIR Book Review: Welcome to the Fifth Estate

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #601: May 30, 2011

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #600: May 23, 2011

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #599: May 16, 2011

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #598: May 9, 2011

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #597: May 2, 2011

• FIR Live #22 - April 30, 2011: Social media analytics

• FIR Book Review: Social Location Marketing

April

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #596: April 25, 2011

• FIR Interview: Philip Sheldrake and The Business of Influence

• FIR Interview: Sean Duffy on WeFeedback.org and social media

• FIR Interview: Lynette Young on BlogWorld’s Podcast Pavilion

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #595: April 18, 2011

• FIR Live #22 set for April 30: Expert panel will field your social media analytics questions

• FIR Book Review: Customer Service by Peter Shankman

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #594: April 11, 2011

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #593: April 4, 2011

• FIR Interview: Azeem Azhar, Founder of PeerIndex

March

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #592: March 28, 2011

• FIR Interview: Edelman Japan President Ross Rowbury on earthquake-tsunami communications

• FIR Interview: RealWire CEO Adam Parker on the value of press releases

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #591: March 21, 2011

• FIR Speakers and Speeches: Brian Solis at Dell B2B Social Media Huddle

• FIR Book Review: Curation Nation by Steven Rosenbaum

• FIR Cut - That Chrysler tweet

• FIR Cut - Facebook’s comment utility: a force for good or evil?

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #590: March 14, 2011

• Interview: Robin Block & David Ferrabee the future of social media within internal communications

• Speakers & Speeches: William Amurgis at IntraTeam conference on AEP intranet

• FIR Interview: Jackie Mitchell on Every 80 Seconds from American Red Cross of Greater Chicago

• The Hobson and Holtz Report - Podcast #589: March 7, 2011

February

• FIR Interview: Steve Pinches on the FT, tablets and mobile

• FIR Cut - Childish PR practices; the end of email

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #588: February 28, 2011

• FIR Interview: Laura Fitton on the business focus at OneForty.com

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #587: February 21, 2011

• FIR Live #21 - February 19, 2011: Social Marketing to the Business Customer

• FIR Interview: Laura Thomas at Dell on Trade Secrets

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #586: February 14, 2011

• Speakers & Speeches: Shel Israel on social media trends at Social Media Breakfast SF East Bay

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #585: February 7, 2011

• FIR Book Review: The Net Delusion by Evgeny Morozov

January

• FIR Book Review: The New Small by Phil Simon

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #584: January 31 2011

• Eric Schwartzman, Paul Gillin to discuss social media and B-to-B Feb. 19 on FIR Live #21

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #583: January 24, 2011

• FIR Book Review: Resonate by Nancy Duarte

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #582: January 17, 2011

• FIR Book Review: UnMarketing by Scott Stratten

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #581: January 10, 2011

• FIR Cut - Travel and Twitter

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #580: January 3, 2011

• FIR Book Review: Deadly Spin by Wendell Potter

• Starting the sixth year of FIR with a thank you

• FIR Interview: Joseph Jaffe, Chief Interrupter, Powered

2010

December

• Introducing Bob LeDrew, FIR’s new book review editor

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #579: December 27, 2010

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #578: December 20, 2010

• FIR Live #20: Communicating the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #577: December 13, 2010

• FIR Interview: David Ketchum, President, Asia Pacific, Bite Communications

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #576: December 6, 2010

• FIR Interview: Crowdsourcing Content for the VFW Foundation’s “Return the Favor” V-Wall

November

• FIR Cut: Smartphones to ring up 28% of holiday shopping

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #575: November 29, 2010

• FIR Live set for December 18 on BP oil spill communications

• FIR Cut: Are video games the future of journalism?

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #574: November 22, 2010

• FIR Interview: A conversation with Mitch Joel in London

• FIR Interview: Content Rules co-authors C.C. Chapman and Ann Handley

• FIR Interview: Bob Pickard, President and CEO, Burson-Marstellar Asia-Pacific

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #573: November 15, 2010

• FIR Interview: Edison Research VP Tom Webster on the state of podcasting

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #572: November 8, 2010

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #571: November 1, 2010

October

• FIR Interview: Ashley Howland on Baylor Health Care unblocking employee access to social media

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #570: October 25, 2010

• FIR Interview: BlogDash Co-Creator David Spinks

• FIR Interview: Jeffrey Eggen on the Ford Focus Rally America

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #569: October 18, 2010

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #568: October 11, 2010

• FIR Live #19: Empowered Co-Authors Josh Bernoff and Ted Schadler

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #567: October 4, 2010

September

• FIR Live #19 set for October 9 with Josh Bernoff and Ted Schadler

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #566: September 27, 2010

• FIR Speakers and Speeches: Panel discussion at Dell SMaC Talk Unconference, London

• FIR Interview: Jeanne C. Meister, co-author, “The 2020 Workplace”

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #565: September 20, 2010

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #564: September 13, 2010

• FIR Interview: Kaitlyn Wilkins at Ogilvy 360 on the Ford S-MAX London Freeze

• FIR Interview: Susan Beebe and Richard Binhammer on Chief Listeners at Dell

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #563: September 6, 2010

August

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #562: August 30, 2010

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #561: August 23, 2010

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #560: August 16, 2010

• FIR Live #18 - August 14, 2010: Web Pages or Facebook?

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #559: August 9, 2010

• FIR Interview: Lee Aase on Mayo Clinic’s Center for Social Media

• FIR Cut: Facetime opens door to iPhone porn

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #558: August 2, 2010

• Speakers & Speeches: Andy Smith on “The Dragonfly Effect”

July

• FIR Interview: Augie Ray, Sr. Analyst, Forrester Research

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #557: July 26, 2010

• FIR Live set for August 14 on Facebook-focused campaigns

• FIR Interview: Update from Michael Edson, the Smithsonian’s Director of Web & New Media Strategy

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #556: July 19, 2010

• FIR Cut: BBC tests tracking real-time Twitter trends with Zeitgeist tool

• FIR Cut: Vaseline skin lightening cream meets social networking

• Introducing Pollstream, FIR’s newest sponsor

• FIR Interview: David Meerman Scott on his new book, “Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead”

• FIR Book Review: Open Leadership by Charlene Li

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #555: July 12, 2010

• FIR Interview: Jennifer Cohen on Uni-Ball Facebook campaign

• New FIR iPhone app available

• FIR Interview: Jack Holt, Sr. Strategist for New / Emerging Media, U.S. Department of Defense

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #554: July 5, 2010

• FIR Interview: Caroline Kealey on Results Map

June

• FIR Speakers and Speeches: Rob Shimmin at Dell B2B Social Media Huddle

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #553: June 28, 2010

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #552: June 21, 2010

• FIR Video Interview: Chris Hall and Natasha Nicholson Demonstrate “Discovery”

• FIR Speakers & Speeches: Mel Carson at Dell B2B Social Media Huddle

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #551: June 14, 2010

• FIR Speakers and Speeches: Alex Plant on Corporate Video Channels

• Speakers and Speeches: Jen McClure and Vinay Iyer on Social CRM

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #550: June 7, 2010

• FIR Book Review - Delivering Happiness: June 7, 2010

• Speakers & Speeches: Maggie Fox on Understanding the New Media Landscape

• FIR Speakers & Speeches: Benjamin Ellis at Dell B2B Social Media Huddle

• FIR Speakers & Speeches: Neville Hobson at Dell B2B Social Media Huddle

• FIR Speakers & Speeches: Chuck Hester on LinkedIn

May

• FIR Interview: Linda Johannesson and Christopher Swan on the Upcoming IABC Unconference

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #549: May 31, 2010

• FIR Interview: Eric Groves on ConstantContact acquisition of NutShellMail

• FIR Speakers & Speeches: Francesca Karpel on social media and employee engagement

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #548: May 24, 2010

• Speaker and Speeches - Manish Mehta on Measuring Social Media to Deliver Business Value

• FIR Interview: New Media Author and Speaker Amber Mac

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #547: May 17, 2010

• FIR Interview: Neil Chapman, BP, and Deepwater Horizon Response

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #546: May 10, 2010

• FIR Interview: Rhonda Bennetto, TVI Pacific

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #545: May 3, 2010

April

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #544: April 26, 2010

• Speakers & Speeches: Katie Paine on measuring social media

• FIR Interview: Kelly Hoey, president, 85 Broads

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #543: April 19, 2010

• FIR Interview: Christian Gunning, Boingo

• FIR goes weekly, introduces format changes

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #542: April 12, 2010

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #541: April 8, 2010

• FIR Interview: Matt Chagnon, Public Service of New Hampshire

• FIR Interview: Thomas Power, Ecademy

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #540: April 5, 2010

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #539: April 1, 2010

March

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #538: March 29, 2010

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #537: March 25, 2010

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #536: March 22, 2010

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #535: March 18, 2010

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #534: March 15, 2010

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #533: March 11, 2010

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #532: March 8, 2010

• FIR #532 will be late, but it’s coming

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #531: March 4, 2010

• FIR Interview: Tod Maffin on Case Studies Online

• The Hobson and Holtz Report - Podcast #530: March 1, 2010

February

• Announcing FIR for iPhone and Android

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #529: February 25, 2010

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #528: February 22, 2010

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #527: February 18, 2010

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #526: February 15, 2010

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #525: February 11, 2010

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #524: February 8, 2010

• FIR Interview: Andreas Wilkens and Michele Macpherson of MediaFunnel

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #523: February 4, 2010

• Speakers & Speeches: Chris Christensen on online business communities

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #522: February 1, 2010

January

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #521: January 28, 2010

• FIR Interview: Seth Godin on Linchpin

• FIR Cut: We can’t handle more than 150 friends

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #520: January 25, 2010

• FIR Live #17 - January 23, 2010: The relationship between marketing and PR

• For Immediate Release Interview: Steve Widmann and Aaron Hughling, Scott & White

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #519: January 21, 2010

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #518: January 18, 2010

• FIR Live is back! Structuring communications is the topic for January 23

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #517: January 14, 2010

• For Immediate Release Interview: Scott Monty and Paul Thomas, Ford Motor Company

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #516: January 11, 2010

• FIR Interview: Maggie Fox, president, Social Media Group, on a social media RFP template

• FIR Interview: Andrea Weckerle, Founder and President, CiviliNation

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #515: January 7, 2010

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #514: January 4, 2010

2009

December

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #513: December 31, 2009

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #512: December 28, 2009

• FIR Videos: PR Disasters - December 24, 2009

• FIR Cut: Snow, customer service and crisis communication make Eurostar’s perfect storm

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #511: December 21, 2009

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #510: December 17, 2009

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #509: December 14, 2009

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #508: December 10, 2009

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #507 - December 7, 2009

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #506: December 3, 2009

November

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #505: November 30, 2009

• Introducing new FIR reporter Mark Story

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #504: November 26, 2009

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #503: November 23, 2009

• FIR Interview: Tac Anderson, Social Media Director, Waggener Edstrom

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #502: November 19, 2009

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #501: November 16, 2009

• FIR Interview: Steve Rubel, Lifestreamer

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #500: November 12, 2009

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #499: November 9, 2009

• FIR Cut: What options for CIPR facing financial crisis?

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #498: November 5, 2009

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #497: November 2, 2009

October

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #496: October 29, 2009

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #495: October 26, 2009

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #494: October 22, 2009

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #493: October 19, 2009

• 493 will be late but it’s coming

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #492: October 15, 2009

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #491: October 12, 2009

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #490: October 8, 2009

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #489: October 5, 2009

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #488: October 1, 2009

September

• FIR Interview: Michael Edson, Director, Web & New Media Strategy, Smithsonian Institution

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #487: September 28, 2009

• The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #486: September 24, 2009