A big moment occurred on Strumpette this week with the either/or piece by Marcia Silverman, CEO of Ogilvy Worldwide. Special thanks to Ms. Silverman for violating the unofficial PR CEO August hiatus on conversations about the conversation and finding the voice to speak. Ms. Silverman made a definitively ambiguous statement — a title like “Digital [...]
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Social Media & The Bad Guys
“What happens if some bad, bad, motherf**kers want to do this (social media)? The government? The Rand Corporation? Terrorists?” Loren Feldman says in the 8/8/07 Strumpette TOTAL RANT: Outrage for the Flies. I have to say, first thing in the morning, before the first cup of coffee, Loren’s dark unshaven [...]
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Posted in Blog news, Edelman, Media, News, PR Agency, PR Blog Practices, PR Practices, PR Week in Review, Paris/Britney/Lindsay, Politics, social media on Jul 29th, 2007 No Comments »
The big news this week was that Hillary Clinton displayed a hint of cleavage on the Senate floor. This elicited a major story in the Washington Post and reaction from news organizations, bloggers and candidates. Supposedly, the sight of cleavage sent Patrick Leahy and Arlen Specter to gasping fits and required respirators to be brought [...]
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Posted in Blog news, Edelman, Media, News, PR Agency, PR Blog Practices, PR Practices, PR Week in Review, blogging, social media on Jul 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
I poked Amanda Chapel this week. I was respectful, took proper precaution and I think it was good, if not brief, for both of us. Emboldened by my first successful poke on Facebook I began to poke others. With all this indiscriminate poking going on it’s no wonder that this online community is propagating at [...]
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Posted in Citizen journalism, Edelman, Media, News, News Roundup, PR Agency, PR Blog Practices, PR Practices, Politics, blogging, social media on Jun 12th, 2007 No Comments »
Those are the words of Jodi Kantor (left) of The New York Times. She recalls few times when she dealt with a PR person who really made a difference in a story, someone who was able to ‘anticipate’ what the Arts & Leisure section, which she used to edit, might need. It’s a digitial world [...]
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Feel an empty void and need to fill it? Try public relations.
Jason Calacanis, the luncheon speaker here today at PR Online Convergence, says he used to have a voice mail that essentially told PR people to screw off. Now he’s speaking at a PR conference. He’s mellowed over the years since I saw him at the last [...]
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Los Angeles — Transparency, authenticity, full disclosure - these are buzz terms we hear every day in online PR (especially here at the PR Online Convergence conference). There is a utopian trust in the “wisdom of the crowd” and the democratization of information and the self-correcting, self-policing Internet. These are nice concepts that go along with reading Siddhartha [...]
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