Holtz Communications + Technology

Neville and I reported on Monday’s edition of “The Hobson & Holtz Report” that locked-out CBC reporters had started podcasting as a means of keeping their content available for their audiences while articulating the union’s view of the controversy. The

The first of The Conference Board’s series of podcasts around its Corporate Communication and Technology Conference is available. Lee Hornick, the organization’s program director, interviewed Sun Microsystems’ Terry McKenzie, Ernst & Young’s David Reyes-Guerra, and me. I handled recording and production. At the conference itself, I’ll conduct interviews with speakes and attendees and record Dan Gillmor’s keynote address. You can subscribe to all of the conference podcasts on…

I was part of an intriguing new channel for delivering content this morning, and it has me thinking about the potential for this type of process for getting the word out through non-traditional means.

You’ve probably heard something by now about the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s lockout of its employees, including writers, editors, producers, and reporters. (In case you haven’t, Neville blogged about it today.)…

Nothing has been announced officially yet, but I know for a fact The Conference Board will launch its first podcasts as part of its upcoming “Corporate Communication and Technology Conference.” I know because I’ll be handling the podcasting.

Lee Hornick, the conference program director, called and asked about podcasting the conference. He sees it as a way to drum up more interest in Conference…

The first podcasting effort by a TV show that came to my attention was from movie critics Ebert and Roeper. Now, Meet the Press is being distributed as a podcast, and it makes iTunes’ list of the top 100. Wired has an interesting look at how TV is attempting to penetrate the podcasting market despite a record failures (such as CBS’s aborted…

I was thinking of taking another shot at the podcasting naysayers after reading Frank Barnako’s proclamation that mainstream podcasts will edge out the indies and Mark Cuban’s assertion that indie podcasts will survive as only a curiosity for friends and family. It would have been a repetitive post, but there were things I felt were worth saying. But then I read this and…