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FIR #190: What Do They Want?

December 16, 2019 by Shel Holtz and Neville Hobson 1 Comment

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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
  • Six Key Social Media Trends to Watch in 2020

Links from Dan York’s Tech Report

  • Reddit’s monthly active user base grew 30% to reach 430 million in 2019
  • Reddit’s 2019 year in review
  • TikTok Top 100: Celebrating the videos and creative community that made TikTok so lovable in 2019

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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

About Neville Hobson

Neville Hobson is a communicator, social strategist, consultant, digital change agent, writer, and podcaster. He is co-founder and co-host of the 'For Immediate Release' podcast. Since 2000, his career has focused on working with organisations globally to help them leverage his experiences, knowledge and subject-matter expertise of social networks, social media marketing, analytics and insights reporting, to create and build foundations for authentic engagement and to expand online reach and influence. Full bio

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Comments

  1. Tim Burke says

    December 20, 2019 at 3:18 pm

    Regarding the discussion about the word of the year, they as a singular pronoun for nonbinaries, is there consensus on pronoun/verb agreement? For instance, describing the location of a individual non-binary person, would one say “They is here.”?

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