Monday, February 17, 2014

The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #743: February 17, 2014

FIRIntro: We recorded this episode via Zoom.us rather than Skype: let us know what you think of the audio quality;

Quick News: "The business of blogging" ebook published by Stephen Waddington with insights from 15 business bloggers; 10,000 racial slurs used daily on Twitter; The Holmes Report describes the top 12 crises of 2013; three social media developments in air travel including airline use of Google Glass; Ragan promo;

News That Fits: Update on native advertising and brand journalism; Dan York’s Tech Report on changes to Yammer, GitHub updater, Walmart’s plan for the .grocery top-level domain, and more; ADAC’s PR disaster and crisis of trust; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; listener comments in audio and from the FIR Podcast Community on Google+; how Oracle puts its employees’ personal social media accounts to work; last week on the FIR Podcast Network: five new show episodes; Korn Ferry survey: over half of European CCOs have responsibility for social media, and other insights;

Music from Kara Square and Piero Peluche; and more.

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For Immediate Release: The Hobson and Holtz Report for February 17, 2014: An 81-minute podcast recorded live from Wokingham, Berkshire, England, and Concord, California, USA.

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So, until Monday February 24…

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