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Neville Hobson joined FIR host Shel Holtz for the July edition of “The Hobson & Holtz Report” and conversation about these topics:

• British Airways asks customers to post personal data on Twitter ‘to comply with GDPR’
• Will Facebook Stories (and Instagram Stories, Messenger Stories, WhatsApp Stories, and Snapchat Stories) change how marketers use social media?
• Whatever the EU does about copyright laws, expect it to change social media globally
• Chatrooms come out of closed beta at Reddit
• Facebook has suspended Crimson Hexagon from accessing data while it investigates how that data is being used
• New buyers of smart speakers want to reduce the amount of time they spend looking at screens

Also, Gini Dietrich shares her thoughts on companies shrugging off the “E” in the PESO model she helped develop, Dan York has his Tech Report, and more.

Special thanks to Jay Moonah for the opening and closing music.

You can find the stories from which FIR content is selected at Shel’s Link Blog.

About Neville Hobson and Gini Dietrich

Neville Hobson was co-host of The Hobson & Holtz Report for over 10 years. For over 15 years, Neville has been a voice of experience and influence when it comes to speaking about digital technologies, disruptive change in workplaces and marketplaces, relevant trends to pay close attention to, and what it all means for your business. His experiences embrace deep understanding and subject-matter expertise in contemporary business issues that include social, digital and cognitive technologies, connecting that with a career in traditional public relations, marketing communication, employee compensation and benefits communication, and investor relations. Based in the Thames Valley some 30 miles west of London, Neville works either from his home office or from a client’s location; or from wherever he has a good network connection. Neville is on Twitter at @jangles.

Gini Dietrich is the founder and CEO of Arment Dietrich, a Chicago-based integrated marketing communications firm.  She is the lead blogger at the PR and marketing blog, Spin Sucks, is co-author of Marketing In the Round, and is co-host of Inside PR, a weekly podcast about communications and social media.  Her second book, Spin Sucks, is now available! She speaks, she writes for Crain’s Chicago Business and other publications.

Links from this week’s episode

• British Airways asks customers to post personal data on Twitter ‘to comply with GDPR’
• British Airways asked customers to post personal information on Twitter ‘to comply with GDPR’
• ‘No Comment’: The Death of Business Reporting
• The Future of Connection on Facebook: How Stories May Change the Marketing Game
• Brands that are crushing it with Instagram Stories
• Three important ways new EU copyright laws could affect social media globally
• Reddit expands chat rooms to more subreddits
• Facebook suspends data analytics firm Crimson Hexagon
• Audio Killed the Digital Screen: People Get Smart Speakers to Reduce Screen Time

Links from Dan York’s Report

• July update of Google Chrome 68 to mark non-HTTPS websites “not secure”
• HTTPS Is Easy website
• Let’s Encrypt website
• A Progressive Web Apps World?
• What I learned from chatting with 7,000 strangers on the Internet
• LinkedIn Updates Messaging Experience With Easier Attachment Support, Mentions, and Stretchable Compose Box
• First Look at “Try Gutenberg” Prompt in WordPress 4.9.8 Beta 2

About Shel Holtz

Shel Holtz, ABC (Accredited Business Communicator), is director of Internal Communications at Webcor, a commercial general contractor headquartered in San Francisco. Before joining Webcor, Shel spent 21 years as principal of Holtz Communication + Technology. In addition to integrating technology into communications strategies, his expertise includes strategic communications planning, change management, organizational culture, business initiatives and communications research. Full bio