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Your communications-lusty commentators are back after a slight (ahem) absence.

In this edition of ‘Grumpy Old Communicators’ at the CommsCafe Allan & Lee talk about Twitter and its 5th birthday, as well as how useful or otherwise it has been for Allan’s B&B business, especially when compared to TripAdvisor.

We also look at the IABC and gastronomic experiences, the Coos Bay case study two years on, and a probably tongue-in-cheek opportunity from the east coast of the USA to visit and have a beer named after us.

You couldn’t find a better way to spend 25 minutes and six seconds, trust us! We even finish off the podcast with a sublime piece of music from the ever-wonderful Karoline Hausted, from her new album ‘Drawings’.

You can, of course, download the conversation right now to your audiophonic weapon of choice. Equally, and probably more preferably, you can in addition subscribe to this podcast in iTunes, by copying this here subscribing link and then pasting it into the box that pops up when you click on the ‘Subscribe to Podcast…’ link under the ‘Advanced’ toolbar option (see the image below).

    

In this excitement-packed edition of Grumpy Old Communicators you will hear us wax lyrical about such diverse topics as:

• Karen, her baby August, and the scandal she’s created (and if you want to know where the idea for Karen came from, check out Australia’s far less raunchy but equally seductive young lady who is looking for her Mr Right and only has his misplaced jacket to go on; the video is below, as is a link to some thoughts by a superb Aussie media commentator — and no, that’s not Lee, it’s Tim!)
• Twitter follower numbers and a reference to the superb The Twitter Book by Tim O’Reilly and Sarah Milstein
• Simon Crisp and IBM’s new division
• David Jones and his truly excellent MAIL process for social media engagement
• QR codes, the Three Minds blog and Allan’s B+B website

All in all, 29 minutes and 22 seconds of disarmingly direct conversation over a shocking Skype line that makes you wonder if your two intrepid communicators were actually alive at the time, or were communicating via telepathy, a Ouija board and a plump and quite harmless 50-something-year-old landlady by the name of Mrs Scoggins who dabbles in the occult and thinks she’s a channel for ‘those on the other side’.

You can, of course, download the conversation right now to your audiophonic weapon of choice. Equally, and probably more preferably, you can in addition subscribe to this podcast in iTunes, by copying this here subscribing link and then pasting it into the box that pops up when you click on the ‘Subscribe to Podcast…’ link under the ‘Advanced’ toolbar option (see the image below).

A screenshot of how to subscribe to our podcast manually in iTunes.

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Videos

Karen: The Karen in Denmark video on YouTube

Hitler: The extremely funny (if you like that sort of thing) video of Hitler remonstrating with some colleagues about a long-forgotten night out in Copenhagen and a blonde he picked up at a bar.

Witchery: The ‘man in the jacket’ video that got all of Australia talking, a lot of Aussie men wishing they had lost their jacket, and then a lot of media people in Australia swearing [and here, here and here]:

Dove: The second Dove commercial that was targeted specifically at ‘moms who blog’ and was, it is believed, a resounding success:

    

We’re back!

Sorry…

Allan Jenkins and Lee Hopkins have bowed to public pressure (hi, mom) and are cranking out their irregular chats on an irregular basis.

Perhaps they need to eat more fibre.

Anyway, in this rivetting (ha ha! very unlikely – Admin) first edition they:

• briefly review the recent IABC World Conference in San Francisco
• talk about a US Governor who keeps going walkabout (a very Australian tradition)
• D. Mark Schumann, the new IABC Chair, with a great post about what IABC means
• the vagaries of the humble toilet across the continents: your Peter Stuyvesant smoking, air hostess chatting-up, international jetset playboys consider water levels and acoustics.

Honourable mentions in this podcast go out to:

• Donna Papacosta
• Shel and Michele Holtz
• Sue Horner (whose name Lee forgot in the podcast — bad boy, Lee!)

Please send your brickbats or bouquets (or any invites or swag) to Commscafe@gmail.com.

This has been an RS production – and we don’t mean ‘Rip Snorta’.

Download the chat: Grumpy Old Communicators 001 (11mb; mp3)