The December episode of “The Hobson & Holtz Report” features Neville and Shel discussing these topics:

* Social media lessons from the UK’s 2019 general election

* Podcasts will be eligible for Pulitzer Prizes

* You may be able to create your own Twitter

* Merriam-Webster’s word of the year and the communicators who reject it

* The English language is finally losing its grip on the internet

* Key digital marketing trends to watch in 2020

* Dan York reports on Twitter and decentralization, Reddit’s growth spurt, and TikTok’s top 100 videos

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.

The next episode of For Immediate Release will be posted on Monday, December 16.

Links from This Week’s Episode

* General election 2019: Five lessons from the ‘social media’ election

* Why You Are Missing Out If You Are Not Building A Facebook Group

* How A Private Facebook Group Led to Boyfriend Perfume Launching A Car Air Freshener

* General Election 2019: Has your local Facebook group been hijacked by politics?

* Pulitzer Reveals Audio Reporting Category for Non-Fiction Storytelling

* Podcasts Will Be Able to Win Pulitzers — Oh, and Radio, Too

* Inspired by The Daily, dozens of daily news podcasts are punching above their weight worldwide

* Jack Dorsey Wants To Help You Create Your Own Twitter

* Mastodon, the hot new social network like Twitter, sort of

* ‘They’ named as Merriam-Webster dictionary’s word of the year

* Stop grammar-policing the word, “They”

* The past, present, and future of the singular “they”

* The English language is finally losing its grip on the internet

* Internet World Users by Language

* Share of the most common languages on the internet

* Translate conversations with Google Assistant’s Interpreter Mode

* Star Trek’s Universal Translator Version 1.0 is Here

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