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Shel Holtz
Communicating at the Intersection of Business and Technology
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Content summary: Listeners’ comments (employee monitoring and performance; don’t write off podcasting; time-shifted podcasting, cars and home PCs; more on VNRs and responsibility, and audio search; smoking the podcasting dope down under); political scandal in Canada and media muzzling; update your crisis communications plans; Pew’s lost credibility; Macaw Nederland’s employee bloggers; IABC Caf?? launches.

Show notes for April 7, 2005

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IABC relaunched its blog yesterday, as promised, and the most encouraging thing about the IABC Cafe so far is that the blogger is actively participating. Of six comments responding so far to the initial post, two are from Warren Bickford, IABC’s current vice chairman (and 2005-2006 chairman) replying to comments from readers.

The next best thing is Bickford’s tone—warm, friendly, human and honest.

As for…

I’m catching up on podcasts that have been backing up on my DMP (digital media player—my own TLA). I was struck by the number of podcasts that have referenced a controversy that has been growing ever since Pod Prince Adam Curry and his partner, Ron Bloom, launched BoKu Communications and PodShow, BoKu’s first offering.

The gist of the outcry is this: “Don’t let money corrupt…

Before I even had a chance to check my feeds today, Neville directed me to Fredrik Wacka’s post about Macaw, a Dutch company in wihch every one of its 110 employees has an internal blog. It’s not a company of blog-crazy workers. It’s just part of the new-hire package. The blog comes along with intranet access and a company e-mail account.

Still, 90 of Macaw’s…

Steve Phenix of the Phenix Rising blog wrote yesterday that he wants PR bloggers to “cowboy up.” Taking a cue from Richard Edelman’s blog, Phenix says,

So tomorrow I’m proposing that all of us in the PR blogging community circle the wagons and devote a post—or two—to why we are necessary, how we make an impact or to simply what we respect and love about this…

I’ve grown weary of reports that this company or that media outlet has started offering RSS feeds. I was just talking to a marketer who reminded me that when we met, back around 1995 or so, her boss was insisting that their company—one of the major accounting firms—didn’t need a Web site. Announcing new RSS feeds is kind of like the mid-90’s announcements…

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