For Immediate Release

For Immediate Release

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  • For Immediate Release #194: The Great Toilet Paper Shortage of 2020
    The April episode of “The Hobson & Holtz Report” continues the coronavirus theme from March with conversations about…

    * Our experience being Zoombombed
    * The role of social media during Covid-19
    * How toilet paper companies are responding to online criticism over shortages
    * Microsoft’s belief that coronavirus will forever change the way we work and learn
    * The UK Automobile Association’s belief that coronavirus will transform UK work and travel
    * Emojis in the time of coronavirus
    * The big data behind Disney’s magic
    * The good news people are craving and how media is accommodating them
    * In his Tech Report, Dan York covers his experiments with Twitch TV; improvements to Instagram’s IGTV; Instagram Live, Instagram DM and Facebook Messenger’s arrivals on the desktop; Google’s plan to charge for reCAPTCHA; and Earth Day’s 50th anniversary.

    We are hosting an FIR Communicators Coffee Break on Zoom each Thursday during the stay-at-home period at 1 p.m. ET. For credentials, contact Shel or Neville directly or request the credentials in our Facebook group or send an email to [email protected]. Spread the word to your communications community.
    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, May 18.
    Links from This Week’s Episode

    * Securing Your Zoom Meetings (PDF)
    * More top companies ban Zoom following security fears
    * The Giant Work-From-Home Experiment Has One Winner
    * Zoom Burnout is Real
    * PoliteMail’s Crisis Communications Resource Center
    * PoliteMail’s Research on Email Volume Accelerating with Covid-19 Cases
    * Do the Right Thing: The Role of Social in Covid-19
    * We Are Social “Do the Right Thing” Slide Deck
    * AdAge’s Regularly Updated List of Marketers’ Responses to the Coronavirus
    * How 5 Toilet Paper Brands are Responding to Customer Complaints on Social Media
    * What Everyone’s Getting Wrong About the Toilet Paper Shortage
    * Microsoft thinks coronavirus will forever change the way we work and learn
    * Coronavirus will transform UK work and travel, says AA
    *
    1 hr 26 min
  • For Immediate Release #194: The Great Toilet Paper Shortage of 2020
    The April episode of “The Hobson & Holtz Report” continues the coronavirus theme from March with conversations about…

    * Our experience being Zoombombed
    * The role of social media during Covid-19
    * How toilet paper companies are responding to online criticism over shortages
    * Microsoft’s belief that coronavirus will forever change the way we work and learn
    * The UK Automobile Association’s belief that coronavirus will transform UK work and travel
    * Emojis in the time of coronavirus
    * The big data behind Disney’s magic
    * The good news people are craving and how media is accommodating them
    * In his Tech Report, Dan York covers his experiments with Twitch TV; improvements to Instagram’s IGTV; Instagram Live, Instagram DM and Facebook Messenger’s arrivals on the desktop; Google’s plan to charge for reCAPTCHA; and Earth Day’s 50th anniversary.

    We are hosting an FIR Communicators Coffee Break on Zoom each Thursday during the stay-at-home period at 1 p.m. ET. For credentials, contact Shel or Neville directly or request the credentials in our Facebook group or send an email to [email protected]. Spread the word to your communications community.
    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, May 18.
    Links from This Week’s Episode

    * Securing Your Zoom Meetings (PDF)
    * More top companies ban Zoom following security fears
    * The Giant Work-From-Home Experiment Has One Winner
    * Zoom Burnout is Real
    * PoliteMail’s Crisis Communications Resource Center
    * PoliteMail’s Research on Email Volume Accelerating with Covid-19 Cases
    * Do the Right Thing: The Role of Social in Covid-19
    * We Are Social “Do the Right Thing” Slide Deck
    * AdAge’s Regularly Updated List of Marketers’ Responses to the Coronavirus
    * How 5 Toilet Paper Brands are Responding to Customer Complaints on Social Media
    * What Everyone’s Getting Wrong About the Toilet Paper Shortage
    * Microsoft thinks coronavirus will forever change the way we work and learn
    * Coronavirus will transform UK work and travel, says AA
    *
    1 hr 26 min
  • For Immediate Release #194: The Great Toilet Paper Shortage of 2020

    The April episode of “The Hobson & Holtz Report” continues the coronavirus theme from March with conversations about...

    • Our experience being Zoombombed
    • The role of social media during Covid-19
    • Microsoft's belief that coronavirus will forever change the way we work and learn
    • The UK Automobile Association's belief that coronavirus will transform UK work and travel
    • Emojis in the time of coronavirus
    • The big data behind Disney's magic
    • The good news people are craving and how media is accommodating them
    • In his Tech Report, Dan York covers his experiments with Twitch TV; improvements to Instagram's IGTV; Instagram Live, Instagram DM and Facebook Messenger's arrivals on the desktop; Google's plan to charge for reCAPTCHA; and Earth Day's 50th anniversary.

      • Continue Reading →

      The post FIR #194: The Great Toilet Paper Shortage of 2020 appeared first on FIR Podcast Network.

      1 hr 26 min
    • FIR Zoom Chat #4: Zoom Burnout
      The fourth weekly Zoom Chat featuring listeners and FIR co-hosts Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz.
      Links from this week’s chat:

      * Zoom Burnout is Real
      * Webcam Backdrop (recommended by Kris Gallagher)
      * Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Memes
      * The Work of the Internet Society Community During the Pandemic
      * Zoom backgrounds from Unsplash


      58 min
    • FIR Zoom Chat #4: Zoom Burnout
      The fourth weekly Zoom Chat featuring listeners and FIR co-hosts Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz.
      Links from this week’s chat:

      * Zoom Burnout is Real
      * Webcam Backdrop (recommended by Kris Gallagher)
      * Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Memes
      * The Work of the Internet Society Community During the Pandemic
      * Zoom backgrounds from Unsplash


      58 min
    • FIR Zoom Chat #4: Zoom Burnout

      The fourth weekly Zoom Chat featuring listeners and FIR co-hosts Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz.
      Continue Reading →

      The post FIR Zoom Chat #4: Zoom Burnout appeared first on FIR Podcast Network.

      58 min
    • FIR Zoom Chat #3: Zoombombed!
      The conversation was great until we were Zoombombed, requiring us to tighten up controls on future Thursday sessions. Until we were so rudely interrupted, we were talking about (among other things) preparing now for communicating return-to-work when the shelter-in-place orders are lifted.

      20 min
    • FIR Zoom Chat #3: Zoombombed!
      The conversation was great until we were Zoombombed, requiring us to tighten up controls on future Thursday sessions. Until we were so rudely interrupted, we were talking about (among other things) preparing now for communicating return-to-work when the shelter-in-place orders are lifted.

      20 min
    • FIR Zoom Chat #3: Zoombombed!

      The conversation was great until we were Zoombombed, requiring us to tighten up controls on future Thursday sessions. Until we were so rudely interrupted, we were talking about (among other things) preparing now for communicating return-to-work when the shelter-in-place orders are lifted.

      The post FIR Zoom Chat #3: Zoombombed! appeared first on FIR Podcast Network.

      20 min
    • FIR Zoom Chat #2: Zoom and Privacy
      Our second weekly Zoom Chat included a robust discussion of criticism leveled at the increasingly popular videoconferencing tool, Zoom, and the response from the company’s CEO.

      1 hr 4 min

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