Show #544 - April 26, 2010

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Content summary

Neville's solo on Sunday and Shel's on a plane; FIR Interview with Kelly Hoey published, Katie Paine's NewComm Forum session is up; Shel's review of NewComm Forum 2010; Neville looks at celebrity iPhone apps and Google Maps Navigation; a shout out to Effective Edge Communications for the revised FIR banner; listener comments; News That Fits: Marriott launches virtual meetings, how social media helped travelers during the Iceland volcano crisis, the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop, Michael Netzley in Singapore reports on political unrest in Thailand, a Canadian company adopts Facebook as its official investor forum, Dan York reports on Facebook, Ning, and the open internet; music from Jeff Ronay; and more.

Time Codes Here!

00:18 Neville’s solo on Sunday and Shel’s on a plane

01:07 FIR Interview with Kelly Hoey published

01:25 Katie Paine’s NewComm? Forum session is up

02:44 Shel’s review of NewComm? Forum 2010

12:00 Neville looks at celebrity iPhone apps and Google Maps Navigation;

15:40 a shout out to Effective Edge Communications for the revised FIR banner;

18:40 listener comments - Michael Procopio from HP on editing of Wikipedia pages by business & commentary from Shel & Neville . 27:58 News That Fits: Marriott launches virtual meetings,

34:36 how social media helped travelers during the Iceland volcano crisis

43:40 the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop?,

44:42 Michael Netzley in Singapore reports on political unrest in Thailand,

49:52 a Canadian company adopts Facebook as its official investor forum,

54:30 Dan York reports on Facebook, Ning, and the open internet;

1:02:16 music from Jeff Ronay

Contributions and Comments from these Listeners

Michael Procopio
Sallie Goetsch
Behringer
Michael Netzley
Dan York

Links

http://www.forimmediaterelease.biz/index.php?/weblog/comments/fir_interview_kelly_hoey_president_85_broads/
http://www.forimmediaterelease.biz/index.php?/weblog/comments/speakers_speeches_katie_paine_on_measuring_social_media/
http://www.newcommforum.com/
http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/23/oprah-goes-mobile-with-iphone-blackberry-palm-and-android-apps/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/apr/20/nigella-lawson-iphone-app-recipe
http://www.google.com/mobile/navigation/
http://audioboo.fm/boos/120434-a-first-go-with-google-maps-navigate
http://www.effectiveedge.ca/
http://news.marriott.com/2010/01/marriott-announces-gothere-virtual-meetings-by-marriott-with-att-and-cisco-telepresence-rooms-in-new-york-washington-dc.html
http://blogs.hbr.org/ashkenas/2010/04/rapid-disruptions-next-victim.html
http://www.forbes.com/2010/04/12/social-networking-chat-technology-cio-network-meetings.html?feed=rss_technology_cionetwork
http://www.fiercecio.com/story/has-meeting-become-obsolete/2010-04-14
http://mashable.com/2010/04/22/social-media-iceland-volcano/
http://www.irwebreport.com/daily/2010/04/22/company-adopts-facebook-for-official-investor-forum/
Today's music: All On You by Jeff Ronay. http://www.myspace.com/jeffronay

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

• Neville Hobson
• Tony Molloy