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Shel Holtz
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ClickZ Stats reports the results of a new study on corporate blogging that shows some progress in recognition of corporate blogging among the top US companies while most businesses remain skeptical, to say the least.

The study—released by the New York-based PR agency Makovsky & Company (which doesn’t even include news of the study on its own site) with research conducted by Harris…

In this edition of For Immediate Release podcast interviews, Neville and Shel enjoyed a 28-minute conversation with Tom Foremski, editor of Silicon Valley Watcher, about online journalism, public relations, the relationships between the two, the future of the press release, and the impacts of change in these professions being brought about by social media.

download mp3 podcastDownload the conversation here (MP3, 11.3 MB), or sign up for the…

AM and FM radio frequencies are controlled by governmental licensing authorities. Shows broadcast over those frequencies by by people without licenses are part of a culture known as “pirate radio.” In some countries, pirate radio broadcasters set up shop on the water, outside the jurisdiction of any country, but many governments still considered it a violation of the law if the signal was…

A number of items have crossed my desk that lead me to conclude that podcasts are growing more and more interactive, a neat trick for a medium that has been decried as nothing more than glorified downloadable audio.

The most recent of these items comes from the Church of the Customer blog. Ben McConnell notes that NPR, with its 300-plus podcats,…

Content summary: FIR Dine-Around at the IABC Vancouver conference; WIPO update; USC/Annenberg GAP IV study; collaborative communication tools: Skypecasting and Waxxi, Second Life and MySpace.com; Lee Hopkins reports; Maine blogger ad agency lawsuit dropped; David Philips reports; listeners’ comments discussion; upcoming FIR interviews; the music, and more.

Show notes for May 8, 2006

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Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, an 92-minute…

Transparency is the business watchword of the decade; there are no secrets, the saying goes, only information you don’t yet have. When undesirable information leaks, businesses fail and CEOs stand trial.

The need for transparency is as great internally—if not greater—as it is externally, although little attention is paid to employees’ desire and need to understand decisions and the processes employed to make them in their…

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