Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Without doubt the podcast of the month for April goes to For Immediate Release which I usually have problems keeping up with (it’s released twice a week, one hour each), but the content for April was excellent and I found myself listening to it first among my podcasts.
- #336 highlights: Using Twitter/Friendfeed differently for business, conducting proper blogger outreach
- #337 highlights: Facebook tools that can really help you
- Live call in show #5 highlights: How should companies reach out in social media without offending the people in it? Great analogy of standing at a party table and interjecting about insurance while they’re talking about something else.
- #338 highlights: Kami Hyuse Seaworld case study and talk of the virtual internet
- #339 highlights: Dan York & Sallie Goetsch take over. Lots of Twitter news and I have a comment left via Twitter!
I have to say, hands down, if you’re doing anything in the digital/social media space, you need to be listening to this podcast.
Other notable listens this month:
- Inside PR #106 - Live episode with a great question “Who owns the social media space?”
- Managing the Gray - Manic Mummies episode, great case study on GM and how to do sponsorship in social media.
- Marketing Over Coffee - “Captcha and Turk“, lots of stuff on startups as well as a whole slew of Wordpress plugins I never knew about.
- Shill #6 meandered a little this month, but still a worthwhile discussion about whether there’s any value in re-posting news.
- Six Pixels Of Separation #98 (interview with Collin Douma), #99 (very interesting, almost counter-intuitive information regarding online reviews) and #100 (long conversation between Mitch, Brian Eisenberg and Avinash Kaushik).
Did you listen to any of these podcasts? Are you listening to different podcasts? I’m always on the lookout for great social media related podcasts, recommendations always welcome.
Tags: avinash kaushik, blogger outreach, brian eisenberg, collin douma, facebook, for immediate release, friendfeed, inside pr, managing the gray, marketing over coffee, podcast of the month, podcasts worth listening to, reaching out in social media, shill, six pixels of separation, social media podcasts, twitter
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
Admittedly I didn’t listen to many podcasts in January, but I’m still going to do this for the month, and there are a few conditions:
- I must have listened to the podcast in January (regardless of when it was actually released)
- The selected podcast can be the most entertaining/informative/educational. Anything goes.
So the winner for last month goes to Jaffe Juice #101 for an excellent Winners and Losers segment covering the whole Scrabulous fiasco by Scrabble and Mattel, as well as Target’s blatant disrespect to the blogging community. On top of that, it was this episode that motivated me to take part in Joseph’s UNM2PNM (Use New Marketing To Prove New Marketing) initiative, where he sends me a copy of his latest book, Join The Conversation, and I provide him a review in return. Sounds fantastic? It is.
Other notable mentions this month:
There’ll be much more nominees for February (I’ve already listened to about 10 podcasts so far), so keep reading for that, or if you’re feeling nice, why not subscribe to my RSS feed to make sure you don’t miss it?
If you agree or disagree with my choice, I’d love to hear from you in the comments below, and alternatively, if you have a podcast you’d like to recommend me to listen to, leave me a comment as well.
Tags: across the sound, comic pants, hasbro, jaffe juice, january podcasts, join the conversation, joseph jaffe, mattel, mitch joel, podcast of the month, Podcasts, randy lander, scrabulous, six pixels of separation, target, twist image, unm2pnm
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Saturday, February 16th, 2008
A more social post: Three friends whose blog I’d love for you to check out
All Quirk No Play by Nabilah, I can’t decide how to categorise her blog, except: interesting.
Body Treats by Calin, who has a goldmine of health tips to keep you in the pink of health
and finally Striped: Shirt from Andre, whose blog is pretty similar to mine. You can also follow him on Twitter to if you like!
And just to build some anticipation, I’ve decided to add a couple of new features to the blog:
1) Podcast of the month - Out of the episodes of various shows that I’ve listened to over the month, I’ll choose the one that was my favourite.
2) Del.icio.us links of the week - Not many people are on AssetBar or LinkRiver, so this will be a post to let everyone know the few interesting posts I came across in the week. (full disclosure: I borrowed the idea from Andy Beal at Marketing Pilgrim)
3) Adventures in social media - I’ve had quite a few great experiences being connected to people online and will be sharing them here.
Hope you will love all of these new segments! Do comment as the begin to appear!
Tags: all quirk no play, andy beal, assetbar, blogs to share, body treats, delicious links, friends blogs, interesting blogs, linkriver, marketing pilgrim, podcast of the month, social media, striped shirt, twitter
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