Holtz Communications + Technology

Content summary: FIR Interview coming: Michael Netzley interviews Bob Pickard, President and CEO, Burson-Marsteller Asia Pacific: segment in today’s show; listener comments and discussion; News That Fits: impressions from the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Cannes and discussion on Gartner prediction that social networks will replace email as primary vehicle for interpersonal communications for 20% of business users by 2014, ProPublica publishes planned PR…

Tom Webster, Strategy & Marketing VP for Edison Research, speaks with FIR co-host Shel Holtz about the results of the fifth annual State of Podcasting study, produced in collaboration with Arbitron. The study digs deep into podcast consumption and identifies opportunities for podcasters (and potential podcasters) based on those results. Tom first presented the study results at the 2010 BlogWorld…

Content summary: FIR Interview with Tom Webster coming; Neville finally met Scott Monty in London; Technorati’s 2010 State of the Blogosphere report is out; latest IABC Cafe2Go podcast features interview with Melissa Dark, 2011 Gold Quill Awards Chair; listener comments and discussion; News That Fits: MIT finds astroturfing prevalent on Twitter, Qantas Airbus Rolls-Royce Engines and social media, the Media Monitoring…

Content summary: Vote for FIR at Podcast Alley; FIR Interview with Ashley Howland posted, Joseph Jaffe interview postponed but coming in November; listener comments and discussion; News That Fits: participation is marketing at Home Depot, how the Tea Party uses digital media to campaign in the US mid-term elections, the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop, Michael Netzley reports from Singapore…

Media Relations Manager Ashley Howland speaks with FIR co-host Shel Holtz about successful efforts to unblock employee access to social media properties, notably Facebook, at Baylor Health Care System in Texas.

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Content summary: Jeff Eggen interview and David Spinks video interview are up, Joseph Jaffe interview coming Oct 29; listener comments and discussion; News That Fits: The Guardian offers social media guidance to its journalists while the Washington Post offers prohibition, fake PR is not going away anytime soon, Dan York reports, the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop, why putting your…