Here’s another example of someone jeopardizing their job and their career by revealing a bit too much in their personal blog. In this case, Nadine Haobsh dished celebrity gossip and behind-the-scenes beauty "secrets" in her blog, "Jolie in NYC." Although she made an attempt to remain fairly anonymous, a number of people knew her identity, [...]
Archive for July, 2005
Konfabulator Bought By Yahoo!, Becomes Free
Published by July 26th, 2005 in Web/Internet. 0 CommentsThe first experience I had with widgets (small programs that run on your desktop) was with Apple’s Dashboard (Included with OSX Tiger), and I absolutely fell in love with the idea. I like information at my fingertips, and widgets do that well, displaying traffic conditions, weather, stock information, and so on. There are also small [...]
Recognize the Reporter’s Angle
Published by July 25th, 2005 in Journalism and Public Relations. 1 CommentIn his terrific book, “Never Eat Alone,” Keith Ferrazzi recounts an experience with a reporter where his comments were taken out of context, painting him in a slightly less-than-positive light. Ferrazzi’s experience reminded me a lot of a very similar experience I had when I was new to working with the media. I had an [...]
Poynter Online recently updated their excellent "Fifty Writing Tools" series of articles with an unexpected (by me, at least) fifty-first article. There is a lot of terrific information contained in this series. I highly recommend checking it out!
Russell Buckley came up with a novel solution to the problem of bloggers receiving unwanted PR pitches. Bloggers would display one of three logos on their sites: Green indicates a willingness to receive pitches. Red indicates no desire to hear pitches. Yellow requires would-be pitchers learn the blogger’s policy on pitches before making contact. Upon [...]
Ongoing posts about the "old" corporate model of public relations, which is described as "expensive and slow," being replaced by the "new" public relations. The "new" public relations essentially eliminates the middle-man, leaving the people who "do the work" (employees) to blog about the organization. The "middle-man," in many cases, is the PR/marketing professional. The [...]
OK, so maybe that’s the most obvious headline I could have picked. Regardless, there has been a lot of talk in the blogosphere about inept, inconsiderate, and just plain bad PR pitches to bloggers. Anil Dash seems to have sparked the firestorm, but he offered some helpful tips for those "misguided" PR folks who are [...]
NASA’s “Deep Impact” Mission Success for Science, Agency’s Image
Published by July 4th, 2005 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsI was glad to hear that NASA’s "Deep Impact" mission was a complete success this morning. Aside from the obvious scientific benefit, it gives NASA some good (and much-needed) PR. NASA has certainly had its problems, and the Columbia explosion in 2003 didn’t help much. The Mars Rover mission has been a remarkable success, however, [...]
