The Talking Points Podcast

Thanks for listening! Here’s our May episode: The Quick News & Quick Takes segment this month includes stories about the rise of Reddit (3:20), the 2018 USC Annenberg survey on Global Communications and PR (4:45), and the end of the Klout era (7:40). The Talking Points Spotlight highlights the conference calls that The New York Times is hosting for certain subscribers (9:45). And, the three Talking Points in this episode feature discussions about an article Arik wrote about why agency experience is so valuable (12:05), the 10 year anniversary of the book “Groundswell” and what it got right about social media and where we go from here (24:30) and why there’s an overemphasis on content tools over content creation and strategy (38:25). Plus, the Talking Points Shoutout for this month goes to George Fiddler of Olson Engage. He tells us about his work and career as a creative director (48:50). For show notes and links to the stories we talked about, visit http://www.TheTalkingPointsPodcast.com/. If you have feedba