Show #536 - March 22, 2010

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Content summary

An update to the Murray Hill story about a PR agency running for U.S. Congress; special thanks to listener Debi Davis for adding time codes to the detailed show notes at The New PR; Michael Netzley reports on guilty verdicts in the Rio Tinto bribery case in China; Media Monitoring Minute from CustomScoop?; News That Fits: discussion of Nestle’s handling of social media crisis on YouTube? and Facebook over its use of unsustainable palm oil, Steve Lubetkin reports on NetTuesday?; listener comments discussion; Shel’s doing the show on his own on Thursday (and it may be up late); music from Kirsten DeHaan?.

Time Codes Here!

00:00 Opening music and info
01:21 Intro by Neville and Shel
02:00 An update to the Murray Hill story about a PR agency running for U.S. Congress;
03:25 special thanks to listener Debi Davis for adding time codes to the detailed show notes at The New PR;
04:00 Brief mention of Friendfeed room, now with 340 members 04:18 Ragan sponsor segment
06:00 Michael Netzley reports on guilty verdicts in the Rio Tinto bribery case in China; brief commentary from Shel & Neville
11:00 Media Monitoring Minute from CustomScoop?; comments from Neville & Shel
12:33 News That Fits: discussion of Nestle’s handling of social media crisis on YouTube?? and Facebook over its use of unsustainable palm oil
45:24 Steve Lubetkin reports on NetTuesday?
54:00 Details of Simply Summit offer to FIR listeners
54:50 listener comments discussion
55:05 Andrea Vascellari comment on show #531 on how he manages his information needs with commentary from Neville and Shel
59:23 Robin Browne comment on discussion on #534 about charging for blog content
1:00:50 Shel’s doing the show on his own on Thursday (and it may be up late)
1:01:20 closing contact details, etc
1:02:40 music from Kirsten DeHaan?
1:06:53 end

Contributions and Comments from these Listeners

Michael Netzley
Steve Lubetkin
Andrea Vascellari
Robin Brown

Links

http://murrayhillincforcongress.blogspot.com/2010/03/update-maryland-rejects-our-voter.html http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/03/19/indonesia.rainforests.orangutan.nestle/index.html?hpt=T2
http://jocaulfield.tumblr.com/post/458896123/nestlefail
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nestle/24287259392?ref=nf
http://www.prweek.com/uk/News/MostRead/991636/NestlE-faces-Facebook-crisis-Greenpeace-rainforest-allegations/
http://news.mongabay.com/2010/0320-hance_socialmedia.html
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=nestle
http://www.salon.com/technology/how_the_world_works/2010/03/19/nestle_s_brave_facebook_flop/index.html
http://www.kirstendehaan.com/

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

• Shel Holtz
• Tony Molloy (time codes)