Reports from the Asylum

In his report for FIR 302, ‘Professor’ Hopkins reminds us that just because Shel and Neville haven’t said much about Second Life lately doesn’t mean that nothing is happening there. The Australian Federal Police, for instance, have been making good use of it.

Lee’s second topic is the importance of rules in social media as in child-rearing. It’s fine to discard them, but before you can do that, you have to know what they are, and they help newbies feel more confident when venturing into Web 2.0 for the first time.

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This week, ‘Professor’ Hopkins sends in a ’strippergram’ to congratulate Shel and Neville on 300 episodes of For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report and enjoins listeners to submit their nominations for the 2007 Top 10 PR Disaster Awards.

Due to a combination of seniority and brevity on the part of ‘Professor’ Hopkins, this report made it into the main body of the show.

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In a special Report from the Asylum in honor of FIR’s 300^th episode, ‘Professor’ Goetsch congratulates Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz on their remarkable accomplishment, then reflects on the continuing gender imbalance among podcasters and asks listeners to send in the names and URLs of their favorite podcasts by women. (E-mail sallie [at] podcastasylum [dot] com.) She concludes by suggesting that because of the comparatively low cost of conversational marketing, it could come to dominate corporate marketing efforts without dominating the marketing budget. Sponsored by Meetup Envy.

Released as an FIR Cut.

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