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Link The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #632: January 2, 2012

Content summary: We start our 7th year of FIR on January 3; FIR Book Review by Bob LeDrew of ‘ROI of Social Media’ posted, more coming; the FIR Book Club launching this month on BlogTalk…

Link Curating company news: Time for company content curation to grow up

There’s plenty of evidence that business is adopting content curation, but the practice hasn’t been around long enough for organizations to innovate more targeted, results-focused uses.

Business…

Link FIR Book Review: ROI of Social Media, by Guy R. Powell, Steven W. Groves and Jerry Dimos

ROI of Social Media The ROI of Social Media: How to Improve the Return on Your Social Marketing Investment, by Guy R. Powell, Steven W. Groves and Jerry Dimos, is the latest book to be reviewed by FIR…

Link The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #631: December 26, 2011

Content summary: Today is Boxing Day, a public holiday in the UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and some other Commonwealth nations; Queen Elizabeth’s Christmas Day messages available for…

Link Volkswagen turns off BlackBerry email for employees after work hours

Link The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #630: December 19, 2011

Content summary: Dan York is guest co-host in Neville’s absence. A Google+ Hangout panel discussion on Le Web has been posted, as have two book reviews by FIR book review editor Bob…

Link SOPA votes derailed by politician's 'offensive' tweet

Link FIR Book Review: Humanize, by Jamie Notter and Maddie Grant

Humanize Humanize, by Jamie Notter and Maddie Grant, is the latest book to be reviewed by FIR Book Reviews editor Bob LeDrew. From the Amazon.com description:

“Knowing the tools of…

Link FIR Video Panel Discussion: Le Web 2011

Le Web brings together the most influential audience in the Internet ecosystem. Top industry entrepreneurs, executives, investors, senior press and bloggers gather for two days in…

Link FIR Interview: Spinklr.com Founder and CEO Ragy Thomas

Sprinklr.com is a social media management platform for large organizations, run by founder Ragy Thomas. In this FIR video interview—conducted over the latest iteration of the Google+…

Link Why Your C-Suite Should Love Open Access to Social Media

This is my presentation from BlogWorld and New Media Expo Los Angeles on November 5, 2011. It’s one of over 100 recorded sessions from BlogWorld Los Angeles 2011. You…

Link Why Your C-Suite Should Love Open Access to Social Media

This is my presentation from BlogWorld and New Media Expo Los Angeles on November 5. It runs a bit over an hour and shows just the slides.

It’s one of over 100 recorded…

Link Augmented Mirror of the Future Reflects You and Your World

Link Apple’s social media policy is just as closed as the rest of the company

Back in 2005, when IBM first encouraged its employees to blog publicly about their work, the company explained the initiative in part by noting that no marketing campaign could evangelize the…

Link The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #627: November 28, 2011

Content summary: FIR Interview with Ragy Thomas postponed; update on PRSA’s #PRDefined campaign; News That Fits: US military takes to social media to rebut extremists; Michael Netzley…