Content summary: Add your comments via Twitter; the pros and cons of live blogging; more listener comment on the value of podcasting, and Dan York’s report adds even more; one sponsor campaign ends; employee benefits communication and the ‘Google effect’; Jeff Jarvis meets Dell: relationship-building and the real power of blogging; white paper says PR must stand up to the search industry; Technorati’s latest state of the Live Web; David Phillips reports on the physical and digital landscape around Stonehenge; listeners’ comments discussion; promo: the Blubrry Jam and Podcamp NYC are coming; the music; and more. [Message from our sponsor: Save time with the CustomScoop online clipping service: sign up for your free two-week trial, at www.customscoop.com/fir.] Show notes for April 5, 2007 Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 60-minute podcast recorded live from Wokingham, Berkshire, England, and Concord, California, USA. Download the file here (MP3, 27.4MB), or sign up for the RSS feed to get it and future shows automatically. (For automatic synchronization with your iPod or other digital player, you’ll also need a podcatcher such as Juice, DopplerRadio, iTunes or Yahoo! Podcasts, or an RSS aggregator that supports podcasts such as FeedDemon). In This Edition: #229 show notes at The New PR Wiki Links for the blogs, individuals, companies and organizations we discussed or mentioned in the show are posted to the FIR Show Links pages at The New PR Wiki. You can contribute - see the home page for info. If you have comments or questions about this show, or suggestions for our future shows, email us at fircomments@gmail.com; or call the Comment Line at +1 206 222 2803 (North America) or +44 20 8133 9844 (Europe); or Skype: fircomments. 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. So, until Monday April 9… (Cross-posted from For Immediate Release, Shel’s and my podcast blog.)
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For Immediate Release: 04/05/07
Twittering during the show; live blogging discussion; David Jones on podcasting's benefits; Dan York's report; One-Minute News: employee communications and the Google Effect, relationship building and the real power of blogging, PR stands to lose business to search optimizers, Technorati's state of the blogosphere; David Phillips' report; listener comments; a Blubrry Jam promo; the music; and more.
TWIAR International #112 - High bitrate
Stories covered and special features in This Weeks edition:01. ARRL President Emeritus Jim Haynie, W5JBP, Named "Amateur of the Year."02. Amateur radio antenna bills are in play in three states.03. The FCC to host first responders summit on interoperable communications.04. The NCVEC responds to petitions regarding multi-language question pools.05. Washington State may impose a repeater excise tax on tower space.06. Oregon abandons proposed laws barring hand-held two way devices while driving.07. Severe weather across the country tests amateur radio volunteers.08. The FCC fines shop for selling non-certified CB transceivers as ham gear.09. The FCC reduces a amateurs fine, but admonishes his behaviour on air.10. Cushcraft antennas are sold to Laird Technologies in the United Kingdom.11. 1959 ham film by the Philmont Amateur Radio Club is up on Google Video.12. Digital Television converter standards arrive in the United States.13. Special Event Station Listings