Posted on July 16, 2013 2:26 pm by Shel Holtz | Podcasting | Technology
Recording For Immediate Release when I’m on the road isn’t as easy as using Callburner or some other drop-dead-simple software that records two sides of a Skype call. There’s a lot of third-party audio my podcast partner, Neville Hobson, and I include in the show, such as correspondent reports from Dan York and Michael Netzley, recorded listener comments, and contributions from our sponsors,
Posted on May 1, 2013 3:25 pm by Shel Holtz | Audio | For Immediate Release | Podcasting
SoundCloud‘s co-founder Eric Wahlforss sees his company as a social network, with its primary competitors Facebook and Twitter, two of the giants of today’s social web.
Its Wikipedia entry describes SoundCloud as an online audio distribution platform that allows collaboration, promotion and distribution of audio recordings by users. It was founded in 2008 and now has more than 20 million users worldwide,…
Posted on March 1, 2013 6:09 am by Shel Holtz | Content | Instagram | Visual Communication | Pinterest | Advertising | Business | Facebook | Marketing | Podcasting | Social Media
Seriously, I’ve done 40 of these wraps? As always, this week’s wrap presents some news from the previous seven days that might have slid by your newsfeeds unseen. I collect links for consideration for the Wrap (as well as my weekly podcast in a link blog at
Posted on January 3, 2013 7:21 am by Shel Holtz | For Immediate Release | Podcasting

Eight years ago today - on January 3, 2005 - two communication professionals embarked on a voyage that was all about discovery and experimenting with a new medium: podcasting.
Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz started For Immediate Release: The Hobson and Holtz Report as part of their keen interest in new communication technologies and platforms, and what impact they may have on organizations and…
Posted on April 16, 2012 6:03 am by Shel Holtz | For Immediate Release | Podcasting
Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz co-presented a session on the second day of Ragan Communications’ Public Relations and Social Media Summit at ING House in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on April 12, 2012. The session covered how a podcast can transform independent listeners into an engaged community. The presentation included audio clips of familiar FIR voices including correspondents Dan York and Michael…
Posted on April 19, 2011 7:57 am by Shel Holtz | For Immediate Release | Podcasting

In this FIR Interview, co-host Shel Holtz talks with Lynette Young, about the Podcast Pavilion, the special podcast space that will be part of the BlogWorld and New Media Expo taking place in New York May 24-26.
Young—known online as Lynette Radio—is a podcasting pioneer. In this interview, she discusses the origins of the Podcast Pavilion and what attendees at BlogWorld East can expect…
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