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May 15, 2015 by Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz Leave a Comment

When we introduced For Immediate Release on January 5, 2005, we had no idea we’d still be podcasting more than a decade later. We didn’t know what the state of podcasting would be, that the scope of FIR would expand, or that podcast networks would be a thing.

When we started, we just needed a website for show notes and a home for our audio files.

Ten years later, we’re still here, with exactly the same website we started with. While our website hasn’t changed, though, everything else has. FIR is evolving into a podcast network, already home to The Hobson & Holtz Report along with the five podcasts we have spun off: Interviews, Book Reviews, FIR Live, FIR Cuts, and Speakers & Speeches.
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Comms Research and Measurement is Focus of Next Circle of Fellows Panel

May 2, 2022 by Shel Holtz Leave a Comment

With today’s online discussions, forums, and social media platforms, communication professionals easily delve into what key stakeholders know-feel-do about something now. This enables comms pros to develop more efficient and effective plans to transform what stakeholders’ know-feel-do to achieve organizational goal(s) and objectives. Four IABC Fellows will dive into research and measurement in the next… Continue Reading →

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IABC Fellows to Discuss Executive Communication in April 21 Broadcast

April 3, 2022 by Shel Holtz Leave a Comment

As part of the IABC Career Roadmap, the business leader path is essential to our profession and its role within society. The business leader plays a critical role in shaping an organization’s future by adopting the Global Standard for the profession while building and maintaining a well-structured, competent, and trusted organizational communication function.

In this Circle of Fellows, our panel of top international communication advisors explores executive communication and leadership, its importance in organizations, and how we as communication professionals build the relationships and competence of executives. They will discuss how to add business value while expanding communication competencies and coaching the people who drive today’s organizations.
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Next Circle of Fellows: Engaging Stakeholders Through Strategic Communication

March 3, 2022 by Shel Holtz Leave a Comment

“Strategic” communication is differentiated from other communication by one simple concept: It is “the communication principles, strategies, and initiatives used to further an organization’s goals,” according to one communication-focused website. (It’s not a bad definition, though it fails to mention “measurable,” which is a critical element of strategic communication.) The target of an organization’s strategic… Continue Reading →

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IABC Fellows to Focus on Communicating ESG

February 1, 2022 by Shel Holtz Leave a Comment

The pandemic has made us look more closely at human and corporate values and the capacity that good values, morality, and ethics can provide to overcome any crisis. ESG has firmly entered the vocabulary of investors, managers, and other stakeholders as it helps assess the risks and resilience of enterprises. The corporate world faces multi-dimensional challenges and all stakeholders are focusing intently on their Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance.

Businesses can be rewarded in many ways when they act in a responsible manner. Through committed ESG performance, businesses can gain legitimacy; a stellar reputation; government support; strong brand equity; increased investment from socially responsible investors; attract socially conscious consumers; entice talent and gain employee trust and loyalty. In this evolving business context, we look at what role communication needs to play.

Join four IABC Fellows for a conversation about communications and ESG. The panelists will also answer questions and share observations from the YouTube chat. The session is scheduled for 11 a.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, February 17. Mark your calendars!
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Pivoting the FIR Podcast

January 10, 2022 by Neville Hobson 1 Comment

When Shel and I started the For Immediate Release podcast, usually abbreviated to ‘FIR,’ in January 2005, we had a big vision for it.

We wanted to have a conversation about topics that interested us at that intersection of business, communication, and technology. As we noted in a post on December 21, 2004, introducing the forthcoming podcast, “We’ll bring a balanced view on what’s going on in the US and Europe in communication, technology and other relevant topics.”

We thought others might be interested not only in listening to us chatting but also contributing their opinions if they cared to share them with us. That way, we extend the conversation.
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Adding Value Through Communication on the Next Circle of Fellows

January 3, 2022 by Shel Holtz Leave a Comment

How leaders view the communication function depends entirely on whether communication produces results that matter to them. Delivering that value doesn’t just happen. In the first Circle of Fellows broadcast of 2022, four IABC Fellows will explore the various dimensions of communicating for results that matter, from knowing what’s keeping leaders awake at night, the elements of the business and strategic plans, establishing the means of assessing the results of the communication, and how to share those results with leaders.
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Listener Survey: Help Shape FIR’s Future

December 23, 2021 by Shel Holtz Leave a Comment

It has been some time since FIR conducted a listener survey. For a variety of reasons, we decided it’s well past time to learn why you listen, what you like most (and least) about the show, what you would like to hear on the podcast that you are not hearing now, and other information we can use to make FIR more useful, valuable, and entertaining for you.

TAKE THE SURVEY

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How Healthy is Your Organization’s Culture (and What Can You Do About It)?

December 1, 2021 by Shel Holtz Leave a Comment

Join Alice Brink, Martha Muzychka, Lety Narvaez, and Mark Schumann in taking a close look at how to diagnose, develop and deliver a culture that resonates with what matters to people, and what’s needed by organizations, where every voice is welcomed and heard.
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Your Future in Focus: Next on Circle of Fellows

November 3, 2021 by Shel Holtz Leave a Comment

As the world struggles with what’s next for the workplace in the wake of the global pandemic, take time to consider your career path as a communication professional. Join Neil Griffiths, Amanda Hamilton-Attwell, Mary Hills, and Brad Whitworth for a Circle of Fellows focused on career assessment and planning, IABC’s Global Standard, strengths, professional development, certification, and more.
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Communication Ethics Front and Center in Next Circle of Fellows

October 13, 2021 by Shel Holtz Leave a Comment

In this lively panel discussion, four IABC Fellows will explore the current ethical challenges facing communicators, discuss the role a code of ethics can (or cannot) play, and talk about how individual communicators can impact the public perception of PR and business through their own ethical behaviors. The session is scheduled for noon ET on Thursday, October 21. You’ll be able to ask questions in real-time using YouTube Live’s chat function.
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