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 feedback or a suggestion for an interview, article or topic, reach out to us on the show’s Facebook group, just search for “Talking Points Podcast Group” there. Or, find each of us on LinkedIn.

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