The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #435: March 30, 2009

Content summary: Shel’s in Baltimore; Michael Netzley reports on the growth of the Tencent QQ instant messaging service in China; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Nicole Simon introduces an FIR listener contest to win free entry to Next09 in Hamburg, Germany; News That Fits: instant audio reporting with an iPhone and Audioboo, Monsanto takes to social media; listeners’ comments discussion; news about Thursday’s show; music from Perpetual Groove; and more.

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For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, for March 30, 2009: A xx-minute podcast recorded live from Baltimore, Maryland, USA, and Wokingham, Berkshire, England.

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So, until Thursday April 2…

Posted by neville on 03/30 at 05:03 AM

  1. Thanks for covering our mention in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.  I’m the social media team lead at Monsanto, reporting to Glynn. I was in Las Vegas at the Ragan conference the day the reporter was in for the interview, so i don’t exist in the article. 

    To answer your question about why we chose to go with a wordpress hosted blog, your guess was right.  Our current website doesn’t have any blog hosting capabilities, and rather than wait the months/years until we could get something up and running internally now.  We felt we needed to get involved in the conversation. We had already waited long enough. 

    A small point of correction to the Post article, we don’t have 6 dedicated bloggers.  The 6 bloggers who have already had posts published on the site are all members of our internal communications and issues management teams.  They’re contributing to the blog in addition to their normal job responsibilities.

    Thanks again for the mention.

    Chris Paton
    Social Media Manager
    Monsanto Company

    Posted by Chris Paton  on  03/30  at  07:45 PM

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