The July 2020 episode of The Hobson and Holtz Report features Neville and Shel discussing…
* Emotional Intelligence as an Internal Communications focus
* AI avatars as a new tool for training and marketing
* The latest TikTok news
* What a better social network might look like
* The rise of Virtual and Augmented Reality
* The staggering jobs challenge the world is facing
Dan York reports on making video calls better, apps that keep copying each other, Amazon’s new live-streaming for influencers, new ways to get the analytics you need, and something nice to look at while we’re all stuck inside..
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Special thanks to Jay Moonah for the opening and closing music.
You can find the stories from which Shel’s FIR content is selected at Shel’s Link Blog.
Links from This Month’s Episode
* 5 Reasons Why Emotional Intelligence Is the Future of Work
* In An Era Of COVID-19 Disruption, Brands Must Rethink Marketing As Empathetic Customer Experiences
* Deepfakes Are Becoming the Hot New Corporate Training Tool
* Deepfake used to attack activist couple shows new disinformation frontier
* This Person Does Not Exist
* As TikTok grapples with weightier topics, journalists are tuning in to deliver the news
* Meet the Creator of a Viral TikTok Who Caught the Attention of Disney’s Boss
* Trump Administration Reviews TikTok for National Security Risks
* Byte, the Reboot of Vine, Surges After Trump Claims He Could Ban TikTok
* What Is Byte, the App That Just Passed TikTok on App Store Charts?
* Facebook readies global launch of its TikTok competitor
* Snapchat tests TikTok-style navigation for exploring public content
* What a Better Social Network Would Look Like
* Virtual Reality to recover in 2021 after falling to COVID-19
* Covid-19 is pushing AR forward with three major trends
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