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    <title>For Immediate Release: The Hobson and Holtz Report</title>
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      <title>FIR Speakers and Speeches: Neville Hobson on Reputation Management at Internet Speed</title>
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      <id>tag:forimmediaterelease.biz,2012:index.php/weblog/index/1.1189</id>
      <issued>2012-05-16T13:16:41+00:00</issued>
      <modified>2012-05-16T12:45:42+00:00</modified>
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      <created>2012-05-16T13:16:41+00:00</created>
		<author>
		  <name>neville</name>
		  <email>neville.hobson@gmail.com</email>
		  <url>http://www.nevillehobson.com/</url>		</author>
      <dc:subject>Show Notes, Speeches</dc:subject>
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<p><a href="http://www.prii.ie/"><img src="http://forimmediaterelease.biz/images/uploads/priilogosm.jpg" align="left" border="0" alt="PRII" name="PRII" width="112" height="100" /></a>On April 26, 2012, <a href="http://www.forimmediaterelease.biz/">FIR</a> co-host <a href="http://www.nevillehobson.com/">Neville Hobson</a></a> gave a keynote presentation at this year’s annual conference of the Public Relations Institute of Ireland (<a href="http://www.prii.ie/">PRII</a>) in Dublin. The overall conference theme was <a href="http://www.prii.ie/show_event.aspx?id=96"><em>Reputation Management in the Age of Digital</em></a>.</p>

<p>Could we genuinely have foreseen the extent to which technological innovations would have disrupted our way of working? asked the PRII. How social and digital media, in particular, would have given rise to consumer power and citizen journalism? Or that we would face unprecedented competition from a new wave of competitors?</p>

<p>These are powerful themes that were touched in every presentation and discussion. The PRII video-recorded every conference session (if you’re a PRII member, you can view the videos in the member area on the PRII website). They’ve kindly agreed to the audio of Neville&#8217;s presentation - called <em>Reputation Management at Internet Speed</em> - being made available to you in this FIR Speakers &amp; Speeches podcast. You’ll get the most from it if you view the presentation deck as you listen, embedded below (or, if you don&#8217;t see it, <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/neville/reputation-management-at-internet-speed">view it at Slideshare</a>).</p>

<div style="width:425px" id="__ss_12713647"> <strong style="display:block;margin:12px 0 4px"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/neville/reputation-management-at-internet-speed" title="Reputation Management at Internet Speed" target="_blank">Reputation Management at Internet Speed</a></strong> <iframe src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/12713647" width="425" height="355" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no"></iframe> <div style="padding:5px 0 12px"> View more <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/" target="_blank">presentations</a> from <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/neville" target="_blank">Neville Hobson</a> </div> </div>

<p><strong>Get this podcast:</strong></p>

<ul><li><a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/fir/fir-prii2012.mp3">Download the MP3 file</a> (26.6Mb, 39:16) </li><li><a href="itpc://www.forimmediaterelease.biz/rss.xml">Get the show on iTunes</a> </li><li><a href="http://www.forimmediaterelease.biz/speakers-rss.xml">Subscribe to the FIR Speakers &amp; Speeches RSS feed</a> </li><li>Get the <a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewGenre?id=36&amp;mt=8">FIR app for your iPhone</a> or <a href="http://www.android.com/market/">Android</a> device </li></ul>

<p><img border="0" alt="FIR on Friendfeed" src="http://www.forimmediaterelease.biz/images/friendfeed84.jpg" /> <br />Share your comments or questions about this podcast, or suggestions for future shows, in the <a href="http://friendfeed.com/rooms/fir">FIR FriendFeed Room</a>. You can also email us at <a href="mailto:fircomments@gmail.com">fircomments@gmail.com</a>; call the Comment Line at +1 253 780 9125 (North America), +44 20 3239 9082 (Europe), or Skype: fircomments; comment at Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/FIR">twitter.com/FIR</a>. You can email your comments, questions and suggestions as MP3 file attachments, if you wish (max. 3 minutes / 5Mb attachment, please!). We’ll be happy to see how we can include your audio contribution in a show.</p>

<p>To receive all For Immediate Release podcasts including the weekly Hobson &amp; Holtz Report, subscribe to the <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/forimmediatereleasepodcast">full RSS feed</a>.</p>

<p>This FIR Speakers &amp; Speeches podcast is brought to you with Lawrence Ragan Communications, serving communicators worldwide for 35 years. Information: <a href="http://www.ragan.com">www.ragan.com</a>.</p>

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    <entry>
      <title>The Hobson &amp;amp; Holtz Report &#45; Podcast #651: May 14, 2012</title>
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      <id>tag:forimmediaterelease.biz,2012:index.php/weblog/index/1.1188</id>
      <issued>2012-05-14T20:16:17+00:00</issued>
      <modified>2012-05-14T20:28:18+00:00</modified>
      <summary></summary>
      <created>2012-05-14T20:16:17+00:00</created>
		<author>
		  <name>shel</name>
		  <email>shel@holtz.com</email>
		  		</author>
      <dc:subject>Hobson and Holtz, Show Notes</dc:subject>
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<p><strong>Content summary:</strong> FIR interview with Grantoo co-founder and CEO Dimitri Sillam is up. The Speakers &amp; Speeches file from Neville&#8217;s talk in Dublin is coming this week. Neville recounts the talk he and Philip Sheldrake gave at the Wikimedia UK Annual General Meeting over the weekend. A discount code is available for FIR listeners interested in attending <a href="http://wearelikeminds.com" title="Like Minds Exeter 2012">Like Minds Exeter 2012</a>.&nbsp; News That Fits: brand humanization is not a social media fad; Ragan Communications promo; the rise of social influence marketing with Klout and PeerIndex; listener comments discussion; CustomScoop&#8217;s Media Monitoring Minute; Dan York&#8217;s report addresses audio apps for the iPad and iPhone, DRM, and the 2,000-plus applications received for new gTLDs; social TV on the &#8220;second screen&#8221; evolves into content in its own right; TemboSocial promo; half of UK Internet users say online adds are worth it in exchange for free content; music from The Scarred; and more.</p>

<p><strong>Get FIR:</strong></p>

<ul><li><a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/fir/fir-651.mp3">Download the MP3 file</a> (29.8 MB, 74:24) </li><li><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/ForImmediateReleasePodcast">Subscribe to the RSS feed</a> </li><li><a href="itpc://www.forimmediaterelease.biz/rss.xml">Get the show at iTunes</a> </li><li>Get the <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/for-immediate-release/id376237390?mt=8#">FIR app for your iPhone</a> and for your Android device (<a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=tv.wizzard.android.fir727&amp;feature=search_result">visit the Android Market</a> from your device) </li></ul>

<p>Messages from our sponsors: FIR is brought to you with Lawrence Ragan Communications, serving communicators worldwide for 35 years, <a href="http://www.ragan.com/">www.ragan.com</a>; Save time with the <a href="http://www.customscoop.com/">CustomScoop</a> online clipping service: sign up for your <em>free</em> two-week trial, at <a href="http://www.customscoop.com/fir">www.customscoop.com/fir</a>; and <a href="http://tembosocial.com/">TemboSocial</a> (<a href="http://tembosocial.com/the-company/news_press/#pollstream-is-now-tembosocial">formerly Pollstream</a>): helping you transform your communications goals into exciting strategies that will enable you to engage, educate and inform your customers and employees online, <a href="http://pollstream.com/fir/">pollstream.com/fir/</a>.</p>

<p><strong>For Immediate Release: The Hobson &amp; Holtz Report for May 14, 2012:</strong> A 74-minute podcast recorded live from Wokingham, Berkshire, England, and Concord, California, USA.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.delicious.com/FIRdelicious"><img border="0" src="http://forimmediaterelease.biz/images/uploads/deliciouslogo.jpg" /></a> <br />Links to websites, blog posts and other content we discuss in the show are posted as <a href="http://www.delicious.com/FIRdelicious">Delicious bookmarks</a> to facilitate your connection with the discussions and sharing of that content.</p>

<ul><li><a href="http://www.delicious.com/FIRdelicious/651">FIR #651 bookmarks on Delicious</a> </li></ul>

<p><a href="http://www.thenewpr.com/wiki/pmwiki.php?pagename=Resources.FIRShowNotes"><img border="0" alt="FIR Show Notes links" src="http://www.forimmediaterelease.biz/images/newprwiki_84x20.gif" /></a> <br />Names of blogs, individuals, companies and organizations we discussed or mentioned in the show are posted to the <a href="http://www.thenewpr.com/wiki/pmwiki.php?pagename=Resources.FIRShowNotes">FIR Show Notes</a> pages at The New PR Wiki. You can contribute time stamps – <a href="http://www.thenewpr.com/wiki/pmwiki.php?pagename=Resources.FIRShowNotes">see the show notes home page</a> for info.</p>

<ul><li><a href="http://www.thenewpr.com/wiki/pmwiki.php?pagename=FIRShowNotes.Show651May07">FIR #651 show notes at The New PR Wiki</a> </li></ul>

<p><img border="0" alt="FIR on Friendfeed" src="http://www.forimmediaterelease.biz/images/friendfeed84.jpg" /> <br />Share your comments or questions about this show, or suggestions for future shows, in the <a href="http://friendfeed.com/fir">FIR FriendFeed Room</a>. You can also email us at <a href="mailto:fircomments@gmail.com">fircomments@gmail.com</a>; call the Comment Line at +1 206 338 7960 (North America), +44 20 3239 9082 (Europe), or Skype: fircomments; comment at Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/FIR">twitter.com/FIR</a>. You can email your comments, questions and suggestions as MP3 file attachments, if you wish (max. 3 minutes / 5Mb attachment, please!). We&#8217;ll be happy to see how we can include your audio contribution in a show.</p>

<p>To stay informed about occasional FIR events (eg, <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/fir">FIR Live</a>), sign up for <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/fir-update">FIR Update</a> email news.</p>

<p>So, until Monday May 21&#8230;
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    <entry>
      <title>FIR Interview: Grantoo co&#45;founder and CEO Dimitri Sillam</title>
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      <id>tag:forimmediaterelease.biz,2012:index.php/weblog/index/1.1187</id>
      <issued>2012-05-09T21:55:57+00:00</issued>
      <modified>2012-05-09T22:54:58+00:00</modified>
      <summary></summary>
      <created>2012-05-09T21:55:57+00:00</created>
		<author>
		  <name>shel</name>
		  <email>shel@holtz.com</email>
		  		</author>
      <dc:subject>Interviews, Show Notes</dc:subject>
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<p><a href="http://grantoo.com"><img src="http://forimmediaterelease.biz/images/uploads/grantoo-logo.png" border="0" alt="image" name="image" align="left" width="143" height="56" /></a>Student loan debt in the U.S. has reached $1 trillion. Charitable organizations are suffering, but young cash-strapped students haven&#8217;t developed a giving habit. Organizations invest considerable sums in corporate social responsibility initiatives for which they get little recognition. Companies want to grow their levels of engagement with important young-adult audiences but struggle for relevance. Wouldn&#8217;t it be awesome if all of these issues could be addressed with a casual social game?</p>

<p>In fact, they have. In this FIR Interview, FIR co-hosts <a href="http://www.nevillehobson.com">Neville Hobson</a> and  <a href="http://holtz.com">Shel Holtz</a> speak with Dimitri Sillam, co-founder and CEO of <a href="http://grantoo.com" title="Grantoo">Grantoo</a>, which blends all of the issues listed above in a single game-playing environment. Playing in tournaments, students can win money for tuition while getting into the habit of donating to charities that hold meaning for them. Meanwhile, organizations can channel their philanthropic dollars into a cause that engages the organization with an important demographic while raising their CSR profile.</p>

<p><strong>Get this podcast:</strong></p>

<ul> <li><a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/fir/fir-sillam.mp3">Download the MP3 file</a> (10.7Mb, 26:43) </li><li><a href="itpc://www.forimmediaterelease.biz/rss.xml">Get the show on iTunes</a> </li><li><a href="http://www.forimmediaterelease.biz/interviews-rss.xml">Subscribe to the FIR Interviews RSS feed</a> </li><li>Get the <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/for-immediate-release/id376237390?mt=8#">FIR app for your iPhone</a> and for your Android device (<a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=tv.wizzard.android.fir727&amp;feature=search_result">visit the Android Market</a> from your device) </li></ul>

<p><strong>About our Conversation Partner</strong></p>

<p><img src="http://forimmediaterelease.biz/images/uploads/dimitri.png" border="0" alt="image" align="left" name="image" width="114" height="145" />Dimitri Sillam is a seasoned and successful entrepreneur. He founded OrientalPeople.com, the first dating site focused on the Middle East/ North Africa region (MENA). After selling the site to Moroc Telecom (Morocco), he founded LAZEO, a French beauty/health care franchise. Now, Dimitri is co-founder and CEO of Grantoo, where his experience in social media and consumer marketing will &#8220;help students play their tuition bills.&#8221; Dimitri is 26, French with Tunisian and Russian roots. He holds a BA in Economics from America’s Brandeis University and completed a program on Negotiation and Strategy from Harvard Law School.</p>

<p>Connect with Dimitri via <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dimitri-sillam/31/11/407">LinkedIn</a>.</p>

<p><img border="0" alt="FIR on Friendfeed" src="http://www.forimmediaterelease.biz/images/friendfeed84.jpg" /> <br />Share your comments or questions about this podcast, or suggestions for future interviews, in the <a href="http://friendfeed.com/rooms/fir">FIR FriendFeed Room</a>. You can also email us at <a href="mailto:fircomments@gmail.com">fircomments@gmail.com</a>; call the Comment Line at +1 253 780 9125 (North America), +44 20 3239 9082 (Europe), or Skype: fircomments; comment at Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/FIR">twitter.com/FIR</a>. You can email your comments, questions and suggestions as MP3 file attachments, if you wish (max. 3 minutes / 5Mb attachment, please!). We’ll be happy to see how we can include your audio contribution in a show.</p>

<p>To receive all For Immediate Release podcasts including the weekly Hobson &amp; Holtz Report, subscribe to the <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/forimmediatereleasepodcast">full RSS feed</a>.</p>

<p>This FIR Interview is brought to you with Lawrence Ragan Communications, serving communicators worldwide for 35 years. Information: <a href="http://www.ragan.com/">www.ragan.com</a>.</p>

<p>Podsafe music - <a href="http://audiopium.typepad.com/onapodcastinstrumentalmix.mp3">On A Podcast Instrumental Mix</a> (MP3, 5Mb) by <a href="http://audiopium.typepad.com/thatpodcastsong/">Cruisebox</a>.
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    <entry>
      <title>The Hobson &amp;amp; Holtz Report &#45; Podcast #650: May 8, 2012</title>
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      <id>tag:forimmediaterelease.biz,2012:index.php/weblog/index/1.1186</id>
      <issued>2012-05-07T08:12:02+00:00</issued>
      <modified>2012-05-07T07:07:03+00:00</modified>
      <summary></summary>
      <created>2012-05-07T08:12:02+00:00</created>
		<author>
		  <name>neville</name>
		  <email>neville.hobson@gmail.com</email>
		  <url>http://www.nevillehobson.com/</url>		</author>
      <dc:subject>Hobson and Holtz, Show Notes</dc:subject>
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<p><strong>Content summary:</strong> FIR Book Review of &quot;#FAIL&quot; is up; FIR Facebook group is growing; video interviews with Mark Ragan in Amsterdam posted, with Neville about podcasting, with Shel about gamification; Neville guest lecturer at David Phillips&#8217; PR class at University of Gloucester; News That Fits: dealing with corporate reputation crises - Rupert Murdoch and News Corp, Scott Thompson and Yahoo, Ben Baldanza and Spirit Airlines; Dan York reports on ebook DRM, and more; Ragan promo; why great design is the future of content marketing; listener comments; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Michael Netzley reports from Singapore on shadow QR codes in South Korea, Fanta uses gaming to engage Chinese youth, and mainstream media goes black in Malaysia; how O2 got a 117% engagement rate in a paid-for Twitter campaign; TemboSocial promo; people who get customer service through social channels are the most influential; music from White Denim; and more.</p>

<p><strong>Get FIR:</strong></p>

<ul><li><a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/fir/fir-650.mp3">Download the MP3 file</a> (29.8Mb, 74:29) </li><li><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/ForImmediateReleasePodcast">Subscribe to the RSS feed</a> </li><li><a href="itpc://www.forimmediaterelease.biz/rss.xml">Get the show at iTunes</a> </li><li>Get the <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/for-immediate-release/id376237390?mt=8#">FIR app for your iPhone</a> and for your Android device (<a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=tv.wizzard.android.fir727&amp;feature=search_result">visit the Android Market</a> from your device) </li></ul>

<p>Messages from our sponsors: FIR is brought to you with Lawrence Ragan Communications, serving communicators worldwide for 35 years, <a href="http://www.ragan.com/">www.ragan.com</a>; Save time with the <a href="http://www.customscoop.com/">CustomScoop</a> online clipping service: sign up for your <em>free</em> two-week trial, at <a href="http://www.customscoop.com/fir">www.customscoop.com/fir</a>; and <a href="http://tembosocial.com/">TemboSocial</a> (<a href="http://tembosocial.com/the-company/news_press/#pollstream-is-now-tembosocial">formerly Pollstream</a>): helping you transform your communications goals into exciting strategies that will enable you to engage, educate and inform your customers and employees online, <a href="http://pollstream.com/fir/">pollstream.com/fir/</a>.</p>

<p><strong>For Immediate Release: The Hobson &amp; Holtz Report for May 7, 2012:</strong> A 75-minute podcast recorded live from Wokingham, Berkshire, England, and Concord, California, USA.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.delicious.com/FIRdelicious"><img border="0" src="http://forimmediaterelease.biz/images/uploads/deliciouslogo.jpg" /></a> <br />Links to websites, blog posts and other content we discuss in the show are posted as <a href="http://www.delicious.com/FIRdelicious">Delicious bookmarks</a> to facilitate your connection with the discussions and sharing of that content.</p>

<ul><li><a href="http://www.delicious.com/FIRdelicious/650">FIR #650 bookmarks on Delicious</a> </li></ul>

<p><a href="http://www.thenewpr.com/wiki/pmwiki.php?pagename=Resources.FIRShowNotes"><img border="0" alt="FIR Show Notes links" src="http://www.forimmediaterelease.biz/images/newprwiki_84x20.gif" /></a> <br />Names of blogs, individuals, companies and organizations we discussed or mentioned in the show are posted to the <a href="http://www.thenewpr.com/wiki/pmwiki.php?pagename=Resources.FIRShowNotes">FIR Show Notes</a> pages at The New PR Wiki. You can contribute time stamps – <a href="http://www.thenewpr.com/wiki/pmwiki.php?pagename=Resources.FIRShowNotes">see the show notes home page</a> for info.</p>

<ul><li><a href="http://www.thenewpr.com/wiki/pmwiki.php?pagename=FIRShowNotes.Show650May07">FIR #650 show notes at The New PR Wiki</a> </li></ul>

<p><img border="0" alt="FIR on Friendfeed" src="http://www.forimmediaterelease.biz/images/friendfeed84.jpg" /> <br />Share your comments or questions about this show, or suggestions for future shows, in the <a href="http://friendfeed.com/fir">FIR FriendFeed Room</a>. You can also email us at <a href="mailto:fircomments@gmail.com">fircomments@gmail.com</a>; call the Comment Line at +1 206 338 7960 (North America), +44 20 3239 9082 (Europe), or Skype: fircomments; comment at Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/FIR">twitter.com/FIR</a>. You can email your comments, questions and suggestions as MP3 file attachments, if you wish (max. 3 minutes / 5Mb attachment, please!). We&#8217;ll be happy to see how we can include your audio contribution in a show.</p>

<p>To stay informed about occasional FIR events (eg, <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/fir">FIR Live</a>), sign up for <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/fir-update">FIR Update</a> email news.</p>

<p>So, until Monday May 14&#8230;
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    </entry>

    <entry>
      <title>FIR Book Review: &#35;FAIL by Bernhard Warner and Matthew Yeomans</title>
      <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.forimmediaterelease.biz/index.php?/roadweary/fir_book_review_fail_by_bernhard_warner_and_matthew_yeomans/" /> 
      <id>tag:forimmediaterelease.biz,2012:index.php/weblog/index/1.1185</id>
      <issued>2012-05-03T10:12:28+00:00</issued>
      <modified>2012-05-03T09:41:29+00:00</modified>
      <summary></summary>
      <created>2012-05-03T10:12:28+00:00</created>
		<author>
		  <name>neville</name>
		  <email>neville.hobson@gmail.com</email>
		  <url>http://www.nevillehobson.com/</url>		</author>
      <dc:subject>FIR Reviews, Show Notes</dc:subject>
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<p><a href="http://socialmediainfluence.com/research/fail-the-50-greatest-social-media-screw-ups/"><img src="http://forimmediaterelease.biz/images/uploads/failbookcover.jpg" align="left" border="0" alt="image" name="image" width="134" height="162" /></a>FIR co-host <a href="http://twitter.com/jangles">Neville Hobson</a> reviews the Kindle e-book edition of <em><a href="http://socialmediainfluence.com/research/fail-the-50-greatest-social-media-screw-ups/">&#35;FAIL: The 50 Greatest Social Media Screw-Ups and How to Avoid Being the Next One</a>,</em> by <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/bernhardwarner">Bernhard Warner</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/mateoy">Matthew Yeomans</a>.</p>

<p>This book lays bare not only the biggest corporate mistakes and miscalculations of the social media age, but also points out where the organizational vulnerability is that caused each of the 50 screw-ups, and how you can identify this very thing within your own organization.</p>

<p>From the book description:</p>

<p>&quot;All corporate screw-ups are social. Don’t believe us? Pop onto Twitter and type in the word &#8216;&#35;Fail&#8217; or search the word &#8216;boycott&#8217; on Facebook. Up pops the names of many of the world’s largest brands, and the latest consumer grievances and organized pressure campaigns against them.</p>

<p>&quot;<em>&#35;FAIL: The 50 Greatest Social Media Screw-Ups and How to Avoid Being the Next One</em> chronicles another kind of digital pioneer, those brands that have made iconic, early stumbles in social media that have resulted in consequences well beyond a loss of a few &#8216;friends&#8217; or &#8216;followers.&#8217; From a lock-picking geek’s take-down of Kryptonite in 2004 to Carnival Corp&#8217;s tin-eared response to the Costa Concordia tragedy in January, 2012, the blunders chronicled here have cost companies millions, bruised well-honed corporate reputations and sunk careers.</p>

<p>&quot;There are plenty of mistakes to learn from here - or at least chuckle at in disbelief.&quot;</p>

<p><strong>Get this podcast:</strong></p>

<ul><li><a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/fir/fail50.mp3.mp3">Download the MP3 file</a> (6.37Mb, 13:51) </li><li><a href="itpc://www.forimmediaterelease.biz/rss.xml">Get the show on iTunes</a> </li><li><a href="http://www.forimmediaterelease.biz/reviews-rss.xml">Subscribe to the FIR Reviews RSS feed</a> </li><li>Get the <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/for-immediate-release/id376237390?mt=8#">FIR app for your iPhone</a> and for your Android device (<a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=tv.wizzard.android.fir727&amp;feature=search_result">visit the Android Market</a> from your device) </li></ul>

<p>&quot;<em>&#35;FAIL: The 50 Greatest Social Media Screw-Ups and How to Avoid Being the Next One</em> by Bernhard Warner and Matthew Yeomans.</p>

<p>Publisher: SMI Press<br />E-book and paperback (122 pages)<br />Published: February 2012 (UK), March 2012 (USA)<br />E-book Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1471615235<br />Paperback ISBN-10: 1471615235<br />Paperback ISBN-13: 978-1471615238</p>

<ul><li>Purchase the book online at Amazon US (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/FAIL-Greatest-Social-Screw-Ups-ebook/dp/B007FD0J56/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1335994724&amp;sr=8-2">Kindle</a> | <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Fail-Greatest-Social-Media-Screw-Ups/dp/1471615235/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1335994724&amp;sr=8-1">paperback</a>), Amazon UK (<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/FAIL-Greatest-Social-Screw-Ups-ebook/dp/B007FD0J56/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1330687086&amp;sr=1-1">Kindle</a> | <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fail-Greatest-Social-Media-Screw-Ups/dp/1471615235/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1330687086&amp;sr=1-1">paperback</a>) or Amazon Deutschland (<a href="http://www.amazon.de/FAIL-Greatest-Social-Screw-Ups-ebook/dp/B007FD0J56/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1335994787&amp;sr=8-2">Kindle</a> | <a href="http://www.amazon.de/Fail-Greatest-Social-Media-Screw-Ups/dp/1471615235/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1335994787&amp;sr=8-1">paperback</a>); see <a href="http://socialmediainfluence.com/research/fail-the-50-greatest-social-media-screw-ups/">book website</a> for other purchase locations. </li></ul>

<p><img border="0" alt="FIR on Friendfeed" src="http://www.forimmediaterelease.biz/images/friendfeed84.jpg" /> <br />Share your comments or questions about this podcast, or suggestions for future shows, in the <a href="http://friendfeed.com/rooms/fir">FIR FriendFeed Room</a>. You can also email us at <a href="mailto:fircomments@gmail.com">fircomments@gmail.com</a>; call the Comment Line at +1 206 222 2803 (North America), +44 20 3239 9082 (Europe), or Skype: fircomments; comment at Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/FIR">twitter.com/FIR</a>. You can email your comments, questions and suggestions as MP3 file attachments, if you wish (max. 3 minutes / 5Mb attachment, please!). We&#8217;ll be happy to see how we can include your audio contribution in a show.</p>

<p>To receive all For Immediate Release podcasts including the weekly Hobson &amp; Holtz Report, subscribe to the <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/forimmediatereleasepodcast">full RSS feed</a>.</p>

<p>This FIR Review is brought to you with Lawrence Ragan Communications, serving communicators worldwide for 35 years. Information: <a href="http://www.ragan.com">www.ragan.com</a>.
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    </entry>

    <entry>
      <title>The Hobson &amp;amp; Holtz Report &#45; Podcast #649: April 30, 2012</title>
      <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.forimmediaterelease.biz/index.php?/roadweary/the_hobson_holtz_report_-_podcast_649_april_30_2012/" /> 
      <id>tag:forimmediaterelease.biz,2012:index.php/weblog/index/1.1184</id>
      <issued>2012-04-30T19:40:59+00:00</issued>
      <modified>2012-04-30T20:07:00+00:00</modified>
      <summary></summary>
      <created>2012-04-30T19:40:59+00:00</created>
		<author>
		  <name>neville</name>
		  <email>neville.hobson@gmail.com</email>
		  <url>http://www.nevillehobson.com/</url>		</author>
      <dc:subject>Hobson and Holtz, Show Notes</dc:subject>
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<p><strong>Content summary:</strong> FIR Book Review of &#8220;Reality is Broken&#8221; is up, another book review coming this week; News That Fits: Klout gears up for brand pages and social media dominance; Ragan promo; information control at the London Olympics 2012 vs ambush marketers (and activists); Michael Netzley&#8217;s Asia report from Singapore; listener comments including John Cass on CREWE; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Dan York reports on experimenting with SoundCloud, and more; your next conference can benefit from some TEDification; TemboSocial promo; #firtweetupdublin and #priiconf12; music from Burning Shapes; and more.</p>

<p><strong>Get FIR:</strong></p>

<ul><li><a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/fir/fir-649.mp3">Download the MP3 file</a> (28.3Mb, 70:47) </li><li><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/ForImmediateReleasePodcast">Subscribe to the RSS feed</a> </li><li><a href="itpc://www.forimmediaterelease.biz/rss.xml">Get the show at iTunes</a> </li><li>Get the <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/for-immediate-release/id376237390?mt=8#">FIR app for your iPhone</a> and for your Android device (<a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=tv.wizzard.android.fir727&amp;feature=search_result">visit the Android Market</a> from your device) </li></ul>

<p>Messages from our sponsors: FIR is brought to you with Lawrence Ragan Communications, serving communicators worldwide for 35 years, <a href="http://www.ragan.com/">www.ragan.com</a>; Save time with the <a href="http://www.customscoop.com/">CustomScoop</a> online clipping service: sign up for your <em>free</em> two-week trial, at <a href="http://www.customscoop.com/fir">www.customscoop.com/fir</a>; and <a href="http://tembosocial.com/">TemboSocial</a> (<a href="http://tembosocial.com/the-company/news_press/#pollstream-is-now-tembosocial">formerly Pollstream</a>): helping you transform your communications goals into exciting strategies that will enable you to engage, educate and inform your customers and employees online, <a href="http://pollstream.com/fir/">pollstream.com/fir/</a>.</p>

<p><strong>For Immediate Release: The Hobson &amp; Holtz Report for April 30, 2012:</strong> A 71-minute podcast recorded live from Concord, California, USA, and Wokingham, Berkshire, England.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.delicious.com/FIRdelicious"><img border="0" src="http://forimmediaterelease.biz/images/uploads/deliciouslogo.jpg" /></a> <br />Links to websites, blog posts and other content we discuss in the show are posted as <a href="http://www.delicious.com/FIRdelicious">Delicious bookmarks</a> to facilitate your connection with the discussions and sharing of that content.</p>

<ul><li><a href="http://www.delicious.com/FIRdelicious/649">FIR #649 bookmarks on Delicious</a> </li></ul>

<p><a href="http://www.thenewpr.com/wiki/pmwiki.php?pagename=Resources.FIRShowNotes"><img border="0" alt="FIR Show Notes links" src="http://www.forimmediaterelease.biz/images/newprwiki_84x20.gif" /></a> <br />Names of blogs, individuals, companies and organizations we discussed or mentioned in the show are posted to the <a href="http://www.thenewpr.com/wiki/pmwiki.php?pagename=Resources.FIRShowNotes">FIR Show Notes</a> pages at The New PR Wiki. You can contribute time stamps – <a href="http://www.thenewpr.com/wiki/pmwiki.php?pagename=Resources.FIRShowNotes">see the show notes home page</a> for info.</p>

<ul><li><a href="http://www.thenewpr.com/wiki/pmwiki.php?pagename=FIRShowNotes.Show649Apr30">FIR #649 show notes at The New PR Wiki</a> </li></ul>

<p><img border="0" alt="FIR on Friendfeed" src="http://www.forimmediaterelease.biz/images/friendfeed84.jpg" /> <br />Share your comments or questions about this show, or suggestions for future shows, in the <a href="http://friendfeed.com/fir">FIR FriendFeed Room</a>. You can also email us at <a href="mailto:fircomments@gmail.com">fircomments@gmail.com</a>; call the Comment Line at +1 206 338 7960 (North America), +44 20 3239 9082 (Europe), or Skype: fircomments; comment at Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/FIR">twitter.com/FIR</a>. You can email your comments, questions and suggestions as MP3 file attachments, if you wish (max. 3 minutes / 5Mb attachment, please!). We&#8217;ll be happy to see how we can include your audio contribution in a show.</p>

<p>To stay informed about occasional FIR events (eg, <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/fir">FIR Live</a>), sign up for <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/fir-update">FIR Update</a> email news.</p>

<p>So, until Monday May 7&#8230;
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    <entry>
      <title>FIR Review: Reality is Broken, by Jane McGonigal</title>
      <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.forimmediaterelease.biz/index.php?/roadweary/fir_review_reality_is_broken_by_jane_mcgonigal/" /> 
      <id>tag:forimmediaterelease.biz,2012:index.php/weblog/index/1.1183</id>
      <issued>2012-04-27T00:16:35+00:00</issued>
      <modified>2012-04-27T00:27:36+00:00</modified>
      <summary></summary>
      <created>2012-04-27T00:16:35+00:00</created>
		<author>
		  <name>shel</name>
		  <email>shel@holtz.com</email>
		  		</author>
      <dc:subject>FIR Reviews, Show Notes</dc:subject>
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<p><img src="http://forimmediaterelease.biz/images/uploads/realityisbroken.png" border="0" alt="Reality is Broken book cover" align="left" name="Reality is Broken" width="160" height="239" />FIR co-host Shel Holtz reviews Jane McGonigal&#8217;s &#8220;Reality is Broken,&#8221; which argues that the principles of game play can lead to better results than the routine approaches we take to problem-solving in the real world. From the:</p>

<p>&#8220;In this groundbreaking exploration of the power and future of gaming, McGonigal reveals how we can use the lessons of game design to fix what is wrong with the real world. Drawing on positive psychology, cognitive science, and sociology, Reality Is Broken uncovers how game designers have hit on core truths about what makes us happy and utilized these discoveriesto astonishing effect in virtual environments. Videogames consistently provide the exhilarating rewards, stimulating challenges, and epic victories that are so often lacking in the real world. But why, McGonigal asks, should we use the power of games for escapist entertainment alone? Her research suggests that gamers are expert problem solvers and collaborators because they regularly cooperate with other players to overcome daunting virtual challenges, and she helped pioneer a fast-growing genre of games that aims to turn gameplay to socially positive ends.&#8221;</p>

<p><strong>Get this podcast:</strong></p>

<ul><li><a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/fir/fir-realityisbroken.mp3">Download the MP3 file</a> (7.85Mb, 19:32) </li><li><a href="itpc://www.forimmediaterelease.biz/rss.xml">Get the show on iTunes</a> </li><li><a href="http://www.forimmediaterelease.biz/reviews-rss.xml">Subscribe to the FIR Reviews RSS feed</a> </li><li>Get the <a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewGenre?id=36&amp;mt=8">FIR app for your iPhone</a> or <a href="http://www.android.com/market/">Android</a> device </li></ul>

<p><em>Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World</em> by Jane McGonigal</p>

<p>Publisher: Penguin Press<br />
Hardcover, 400 pages<br />
Published January 2011<br />
ISBN-10: 1594202850<br />
ISBN-13: 978-1594202858</p>

<p>Purchase at <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Reality-Is-Broken-Better-Change/dp/1594202850">Amazon US</a> (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Reality-Is-Broken-Better-ebook/dp/B004G8Q1Q4/ref=kinw_dp_ke?ie=UTF8&amp;m=AG56TWVU5XWC2">US Kindle edition</a>), <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Reality-Is-Broken-Better-Change/dp/1594202850/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1335486207&amp;sr=8-1">Amazon Canada</a>, or <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Reality-Broken-Games-Better-Change/dp/0224089250/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1335486239&amp;sr=8-1">Amazon UK</a> (<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Reality-is-Broken-ebook/dp/B004NBZFS4/ref=kinw_dp_ke?ie=UTF8&amp;m=A3TVV12T0I6NSM">UK Kindle edition</a>).</p>

<p><img border="0" alt="FIR on Friendfeed" src="http://www.forimmediaterelease.biz/images/friendfeed84.jpg" /> <br />Share your comments or questions about this podcast, or suggestions for future reviews, in the <a href="http://friendfeed.com/rooms/fir">FIR FriendFeed Room</a>. You can also email us at <a href="mailto:fircomments@gmail.com">fircomments@gmail.com</a>; call the Comment Line at +1 206 338.7960 (North America), +44 20 3239 9082 (Europe), or Skype: fircomments; comment at Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/FIR">twitter.com/FIR</a>. You can email your comments, questions and suggestions as MP3 file attachments, if you wish (max. 3 minutes / 5Mb attachment, please!). We’ll be happy to see how we can include your audio contribution in a show.</p>

<p>To receive all For Immediate Release podcasts including the weekly Hobson &amp; Holtz Report, subscribe to the <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/forimmediatereleasepodcast">full RSS feed</a>.</p>

<p>This FIR Book Review is brought to you with Lawrence Ragan Communications, serving communicators worldwide for 35 years. Information: <a href="http://www.ragan.com">www.ragan.com</a>.
</p>]]></content>
    </entry>

    <entry>
      <title>The Hobson &amp;amp; Holtz Report &#45; Podcast #648: April 23, 2012</title>
      <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.forimmediaterelease.biz/index.php?/roadweary/the_hobson_holtz_report_-_podcast_648_april_23_2012/" /> 
      <id>tag:forimmediaterelease.biz,2012:index.php/weblog/index/1.1182</id>
      <issued>2012-04-23T08:19:21+00:00</issued>
      <modified>2012-04-23T07:52:22+00:00</modified>
      <summary></summary>
      <created>2012-04-23T08:19:21+00:00</created>
		<author>
		  <name>neville</name>
		  <email>neville.hobson@gmail.com</email>
		  <url>http://www.nevillehobson.com/</url>		</author>
      <dc:subject>Hobson and Holtz, Show Notes</dc:subject>
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<p><strong>Content summary:</strong> Pinterest update cont&#8217;d: Pinterest is now losing users says Business Insider; Neville speaking at PRII annual conference in Dublin on April 26, Bernie Goldbach there too, FIR Tweetup Dublin on April 25; FIR Book Reviews of &quot;Reality is Broken&quot; and &quot;#FAIL: The 50 Greatest Social Media Screwups&quot; coming soon, FIR Interview with Causes.com coming soon; News That Fits: How can members of the European Parliament be credible &quot;middle men&quot; to citizens and not be cut out of the system because of the internet?; Dan York reports on ICANN TLDs, WordPress, and more; Ragan promo; 60 percent of Wikipedia articles for companies and clients of respondents to survey who were familiar with them had factual errors; listener comments discussion; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Michael Netzley reports from Singapore on China&#8217;s Bo Xilai scandal, and more; TemboSocial promo; to blog, Tumblr, Facebook or&#8230;; music from Keller Williams; and more.</p>

<p><strong>Get FIR:</strong></p>

<ul><li><a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/fir/fir-648.mp3">Download the MP3 file</a> (30.2Mb, 75:26) </li><li><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/ForImmediateReleasePodcast">Subscribe to the RSS feed</a> </li><li><a href="itpc://www.forimmediaterelease.biz/rss.xml">Get the show at iTunes</a> </li><li>Get the <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/for-immediate-release/id376237390?mt=8#">FIR app for your iPhone</a> and for your Android device (<a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=tv.wizzard.android.fir727&amp;feature=search_result">visit the Android Market</a> from your device) </li></ul>

<p>Messages from our sponsors: FIR is brought to you with Lawrence Ragan Communications, serving communicators worldwide for 35 years, <a href="http://www.ragan.com/">www.ragan.com</a>; Save time with the <a href="http://www.customscoop.com/">CustomScoop</a> online clipping service: sign up for your <em>free</em> two-week trial, at <a href="http://www.customscoop.com/fir">www.customscoop.com/fir</a>; and <a href="http://tembosocial.com/">TemboSocial</a> (<a href="http://tembosocial.com/the-company/news_press/#pollstream-is-now-tembosocial">formerly Pollstream</a>): helping you transform your communications goals into exciting strategies that will enable you to engage, educate and inform your customers and employees online, <a href="http://pollstream.com/fir/">pollstream.com/fir/</a>.</p>

<p><strong>For Immediate Release: The Hobson &amp; Holtz Report for April 23, 2012:</strong> A 75-minute podcast recorded live from Wokingham, Berkshire, England, and Concord, California, USA.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.delicious.com/FIRdelicious"><img border="0" src="http://forimmediaterelease.biz/images/uploads/deliciouslogo.jpg" /></a> <br />Links to websites, blog posts and other content we discuss in the show are posted as <a href="http://www.delicious.com/FIRdelicious">Delicious bookmarks</a> to facilitate your connection with the discussions and sharing of that content.</p>

<ul><li><a href="http://www.delicious.com/FIRdelicious/648">FIR #648 bookmarks on Delicious</a> </li></ul>

<p><a href="http://www.thenewpr.com/wiki/pmwiki.php?pagename=Resources.FIRShowNotes"><img border="0" alt="FIR Show Notes links" src="http://www.forimmediaterelease.biz/images/newprwiki_84x20.gif" /></a> <br />Names of blogs, individuals, companies and organizations we discussed or mentioned in the show are posted to the <a href="http://www.thenewpr.com/wiki/pmwiki.php?pagename=Resources.FIRShowNotes">FIR Show Notes</a> pages at The New PR Wiki. You can contribute time stamps – <a href="http://www.thenewpr.com/wiki/pmwiki.php?pagename=Resources.FIRShowNotes">see the show notes home page</a> for info.</p>

<ul><li><a href="http://www.thenewpr.com/wiki/pmwiki.php?pagename=FIRShowNotes.Show648Apr23">FIR #648 show notes at The New PR Wiki</a> </li></ul>

<p><img border="0" alt="FIR on Friendfeed" src="http://www.forimmediaterelease.biz/images/friendfeed84.jpg" /> <br />Share your comments or questions about this show, or suggestions for future shows, in the <a href="http://friendfeed.com/fir">FIR FriendFeed Room</a>. You can also email us at <a href="mailto:fircomments@gmail.com">fircomments@gmail.com</a>; call the Comment Line at +1 206 338 7960 (North America), +44 20 3239 9082 (Europe), or Skype: fircomments; comment at Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/FIR">twitter.com/FIR</a>. You can email your comments, questions and suggestions as MP3 file attachments, if you wish (max. 3 minutes / 5Mb attachment, please!). We&#8217;ll be happy to see how we can include your audio contribution in a show.</p>

<p>To stay informed about occasional FIR events (eg, <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/fir">FIR Live</a>), sign up for <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/fir-update">FIR Update</a> email news.</p>

<p>So, until Monday April 30&#8230;
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    </entry>

    <entry>
      <title>The Hobson &amp;amp; Holtz Report &#45; Podcast #647: April 16, 2012</title>
      <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.forimmediaterelease.biz/index.php?/roadweary/the_hobson_holtz_report_-_podcast_647_april_16_2012/" /> 
      <id>tag:forimmediaterelease.biz,2012:index.php/weblog/index/1.1181</id>
      <issued>2012-04-16T13:10:54+00:00</issued>
      <modified>2012-04-16T13:21:55+00:00</modified>
      <summary></summary>
      <created>2012-04-16T13:10:54+00:00</created>
		<author>
		  <name>shel</name>
		  <email>shel@holtz.com</email>
		  		</author>
      <dc:subject>Hobson and Holtz, Show Notes</dc:subject>
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<p><strong>Content summary:</strong> New call-in number for North America; a recap of Ragan&#8217;s International Public Relations and Social Media Summit in Amsterdam last week; Shel and Neville&#8217;s session from Amsterdam is a Speakers and Speeches post on FIR; an update on last week&#8217;s Pinterest report highlights a UK campaign to get women to stop driving while wearing high heels; News That Fits: five new studies combine to provide a clear picture of the direction digital content is going, a discussion on whether Procter &amp; Gamble made the right decision to block employee access to Pandora and Netflix, Ragan promo, Michael Netzley&#8217;s Asia Report focuses on the right amount of transparency and China&#8217;s political legitimacy crisis, listener comments discussion, the Media Monitoring Minute from CustomScoop, Dan York&#8217;s report includes Facebook&#8217;s acquisition of Instagram and the photo service 500px, five ways to get the most out of your Google+ experience, TemboSocial promo, a look at a study that shows companies generate greater returns on investment from proprietary social networks; music from Millencolin; and more.</p>

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<p><strong>For Immediate Release: The Hobson &amp; Holtz Report for April 9, 2012:</strong> An 82-minute podcast recorded live from Wokingham, Berkshire, England, and Concord, California, USA.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.delicious.com/FIRdelicious"><img border="0" src="http://forimmediaterelease.biz/images/uploads/deliciouslogo.jpg" /></a> <br />Links to websites, blog posts and other content we discuss in the show are posted as <a href="http://www.delicious.com/FIRdelicious">Delicious bookmarks</a> to facilitate your connection with the discussions and sharing of that content.</p>

<ul><li><a href="http://www.delicious.com/FIRdelicious/647">FIR #647 bookmarks on Delicious</a> </li></ul>

<p><a href="http://www.thenewpr.com/wiki/pmwiki.php?pagename=Resources.FIRShowNotes"><img border="0" alt="FIR Show Notes links" src="http://www.forimmediaterelease.biz/images/newprwiki_84x20.gif" /></a> <br />Names of blogs, individuals, companies and organizations we discussed or mentioned in the show are posted to the <a href="http://www.thenewpr.com/wiki/pmwiki.php?pagename=Resources.FIRShowNotes">FIR Show Notes</a> pages at The New PR Wiki. You can contribute time stamps – <a href="http://www.thenewpr.com/wiki/pmwiki.php?pagename=Resources.FIRShowNotes">see the show notes home page</a> for info.</p>

<ul><li><a href="http://www.thenewpr.com/wiki/pmwiki.php?pagename=FIRShowNotes.Show647Apr16">FIR #647 show notes at The New PR Wiki</a> </li></ul>

<p><img border="0" alt="FIR on Friendfeed" src="http://www.forimmediaterelease.biz/images/friendfeed84.jpg" /> <br />Share your comments or questions about this show, or suggestions for future shows, in the <a href="http://friendfeed.com/fir">FIR FriendFeed Room</a>. You can also email us at <a href="mailto:fircomments@gmail.com">fircomments@gmail.com</a>; call the Comment Line at +1 253 780 9125 (North America), +44 20 3239 9082 (Europe), or Skype: fircomments; comment at Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/FIR">twitter.com/FIR</a>. You can email your comments, questions and suggestions as MP3 file attachments, if you wish (max. 3 minutes / 5Mb attachment, please!). We&#8217;ll be happy to see how we can include your audio contribution in a show.</p>

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<p>So, until Monday April 23&#8230;
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      <title>Speakers &amp;amp; Speeches: Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz on Building Community with Podcasting</title>
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<p><img src="http://forimmediaterelease.biz/images/uploads/ragan-amsterdam1.png" border="0" alt="image" align="left" name="image" width="265" height="202" />Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz co-presented a session on the second day of Ragan Communications&#8217; Public Relations and Social Media Summit at ING House in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on April 12, 2012. The session covered how a podcast can transform independent listeners into an engaged community. The presentation included audio clips of familiar FIR voices including correspondents Dan York and Michael Netzley, as well as other PR podcasters, and explored how the communities these podcasts build can be attained by businesses.</p>

<p>You can listen while following along with the PowerPoint deck below:</p>

<div style="width:425px" id="__ss_12550817"> <strong style="display:block;margin:12px 0 4px"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/firslideshare/how-podcasting-can-build-a-community" title="How Podcasting Can Build a Community" target="_blank">How Podcasting Can Build a Community</a></strong> <iframe src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/12550817" width="425" height="355" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no"></iframe> <div style="padding:5px 0 12px"> View more <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/thecroaker/death-by-powerpoint" target="_blank">PowerPoint</a> from <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/firslideshare" target="_blank">firslideshare</a> </div> </div>

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<img border="0" alt="FIR on Friendfeed" src="http://www.forimmediaterelease.biz/images/friendfeed84.jpg" /> <br />Share your comments or questions about this podcast, or suggestions for future shows, in the <a href="http://friendfeed.com/rooms/fir">FIR FriendFeed Room</a>. You can also email us at <a href="mailto:fircomments@gmail.com">fircomments@gmail.com</a>; call the Comment Line at +1 206 222 2803 (North America), +44 20 8133 9844 (Europe), or Skype: fircomments; comment at Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/FIR">twitter.com/FIR</a>. You can email your comments, questions and suggestions as MP3 file attachments, if you wish (max. 3 minutes / 5Mb attachment, please!). We’ll be happy to see how we can include your audio contribution in a show.</p>

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<p>This FIR Speakers &amp; Speeches is brought to you with Lawrence Ragan Communications, serving communicators worldwide for 35 years. Information: <a href="http://www.ragan.com">www.ragan.com</a>.
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