Show #476 - August 20, 2009

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Content summary

FIR Live on Saturday Aug 22: email marketing; please participate in SNCR's latest survey; deadline approaches for submitting your entry to SNCR's Communication Awards; discussion: Whole Foods CEO John Mackey, an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal and business effects; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: survey shows more employers use Facebook to vet new hires than LinkedIn, San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom guest writes on TechCrunch to explain DataSF.org; listener comments discussion; music from The Smallvilles; and more.

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Contributions and Comments from these Listeners

Howard Harvitz
Tony Molloy
Bernie Goldbach
Andy Piper
Brian Woodward

Links

http://www.forimmediaterelease.biz/index.php?/weblog/comments/the_focus_is_on_email_marketing_on_next_fir_live/
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/fir
http://www.newsymbiosis.com/
http://www.sncr.org/awards
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/17/whole-foods-fight/
http://www.examiner.com/x-16299-Denver-Business-Commentary-Examiner~y2009m8d17-Whole-Foods-is-latest-company-inducted-into-Worlds-Dumbest-PR-Blunders-book
http://www.alternet.org/rss/the_wire_provided_by_huffington_post/83025/whole_foods_backlash:_bloggers_outraged_over_ceo%27s_anti-%27obamacare%27_column/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/19/healthcare-whole-foods-debate-mackey
http://www2.wholefoodsmarket.com/blogs/jmackey/2009/08/14/health-care-reform-full-article/
http://www.forimmediaterelease.biz/index.php?/weblog/comments/the_hobson_holtz_report_podcast_349_may_29_2008/
http://paidcontent.org/article/419-more-employers-scanning-facebook-for-new-hires-than-linkedin/
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/forty-five-percent-of-employers-use-social-networking-sites-to-research-job-candidates-careerbuilder-survey-finds-2009-08-19?siteid=nbsh
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/19/san-francisco-opens-the-city%E2%80%99s-data/
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9135595/IT_Change_Is_Hard_Typewriters_Still_in_Use_at_NYPD
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_gratification
http://en.jyskebank.tv
http://www.jyskebank.tv
http://m.jyskebank.tv/en
Today's music: Moving On Swiftly by The Smallvilles. http://www.thesmallvilles.com/

Contributors to show notes for this show (add your name here)

• Neville Hobson