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New podcast: EE Voice speaks to employee engagement

August 11, 2015 by Sharon McIntosh and Sharon Phillips Leave a Comment

Employee engagement is messy. It’s not consistently defined or measured. It’s discussed in academia, espoused by consultants and nearly every company wants to dramatically increase it. And that means employee engagement also is exciting, relevant and can drive business results. So it’s worth a discussion.

That’s exactly the topic we’ll be addressing on a new podcast, called EE Voice, part of the FIR Podcast Network. EE – used interchangeably as abbreviation for employees or employee engagement – will be addressed through the lens of internal communications.
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New podcast: Circle of Fellows lets you tap into IABC Fellows knowledge and experience

July 28, 2015 by Shel Holtz Leave a Comment

The Circle of Fellows is a new FIR podcast featuring a monthly panel made up of Fellows of the International Association of Business Communicators. Each episode will feature a single topic, enabling the Fellows to dig deep and provide insights based on their vast experience. The podcast will be delivered live as a Google+ Hangout on Air, then made available both as a YouTube video and an audio podcast.
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Digital India to join the FIR Podcast Network

June 6, 2015 by Shel Holtz Leave a Comment

Suresh Babu — who heads up the Bangalore-based Web Marketing Academy — along with WMA staff and students — will offer news and insights into digital marketing and communications in the world’s second most populous country in the new podcast, Digital India, which premieres on the FIR Podcast Network the week of June 8.
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FIR Podcast Network hosts fill the Hobson & Holtz co-host chair in June

June 3, 2015 by Shel Holtz Leave a Comment

After more than a decade of continuous podcasting, FIR co-founder Neville Hobson is taking a break, recharging his batteries during the month of June. To fill the gap, hosts of other FIR Podcast Network shows will join Shel Holtz as guest co-hosts of the next four episodes of the Hobson & Holtz Report.
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Looking for older episodes?

May 16, 2015 by Shel Holtz Leave a Comment

Visit the FIR archives. All the shows from 2005 through 2015 are there.
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A new platform for a new network: The FIR Podcast Network is live

May 15, 2015 by Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz Leave a Comment

When we introduced For Immediate Release on January 5, 2005, we had no idea we’d still be podcasting more than a decade later. We didn’t know what the state of podcasting would be, that the scope of FIR would expand, or that podcast networks would be a thing.

When we started, we just needed a website for show notes and a home for our audio files.

Ten years later, we’re still here, with exactly the same website we started with. While our website hasn’t changed, though, everything else has. FIR is evolving into a podcast network, already home to The Hobson & Holtz Report along with the five podcasts we have spun off: Interviews, Book Reviews, FIR Live, FIR Cuts, and Speakers & Speeches.
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