Archive for the ‘Workplace Issues’ Category
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
If you follow the PR blogosphere closely you would have read a lot of blah blah about PR ‘blacklists’ recently. If you don’t follow it closely, in this case you’ve missed very little of note.Who spammed who, what list or directory was at the core of it, bloggers overreacting to ...
Posted in Blogging, Issues Management, Marketing, Media Ethics, Media Relations, New Practitioners, Online PR, Students, Workplace Issues, word of mouth | 15 Comments »
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
My good friend Robert French has done the PR world yet another service, this time starting up PR Open Mic a social network for PR students and faculty to get together alongside practitioners and move our profession forward.
If you're a student you're an imbecile if you don't join up. It's ...
Posted in Blogging, Networking, New Practitioners, Online PR, Students, Workplace Issues, word of mouth | 3 Comments »
Friday, March 21st, 2008
***WANKER ALERT***
This week I've been lucky to be able to share some opinion about my online work and play in the mainstream media, and I'm left feeling damn lucky I work at Converseon because these opportunities wouldn't exist in many other places.
Yesterday afternoon I was a guest on FOX Business ...
Posted in Blogging, Converseon, Marketing, Media Ethics, Media Relations, Online PR, Workplace Issues, word of mouth | 8 Comments »
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
My Yank readers will no doubt be familiar with the painful Verizon ad campaign 'It's the Network'. Essentially, the campaign features an army of helpers backing the lucky Verizon customers. Despite the fact the commercials shit me to tears, they provide a good metaphor for the greatest opportunity for individuals ...
Posted in Blogging, Marketing, Networking, New Practitioners, Online PR, Podcasting, Students, Twitter, Wikis, Workplace Issues, word of mouth | 12 Comments »
Friday, January 18th, 2008
You can absorb the theory 'till the cows come home, but you won't start learning until you get your hands on the keys.
Posted in Blogging, Humour, Marketing, Online PR, Podcasting, Second Life, Students, Twitter, Wikis, Workplace Issues | 9 Comments »
Thursday, January 17th, 2008
A lot of this post is drawn from on the job experience and is cross posted at the Converseon Blog - however, I thought Young PR readers would like it too!
There's been a lot of talk about Twitter wasting time and money (it doesn't). I don't hide the fact I ...
Posted in Blogging, Converseon, Marketing, Networking, Online PR, Twitter, Workplace Issues, word of mouth | 20 Comments »
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
In my first post for '08 I'd like to take a leaf out of Todd Defren's book and point out the importance of passion as the spark that can turn '08 from a good year to something truly spectacular - for both you and your clients.
I rewatched Jerry McGuire over ...
Posted in Blogging, Marketing, Media Relations, Networking, New Practitioners, Online PR, Students, Workplace Issues | 1 Comment »
Monday, October 22nd, 2007
This weekend’s UGA Connect Conference was truly a great time. The students did a superb job covering the event so check out the content at the conference blog and Twitter and all the photos on Flickr.
As always, I loved having the opportunity to speak. I was presenting a case study ...
Posted in Blogging, Event Management, Marketing, Media Ethics, Media Relations, Networking, New Practitioners, Online PR, Podcasting, Second Life, Students, Twitter, Workplace Issues, word of mouth, writing | 8 Comments »
Friday, October 19th, 2007
At Podcamp Boston on October 28 I'm presenting with Christi Eubanks and Mike Denton on Reputation Management for Digital Natives - and we need your help.
There has been a lot of talk about young people potentially harming their reputation online - along with many case studies. Digital Natives will be ...
Posted in Blogging, Event Management, Issues Management, Media Ethics, Networking, New Practitioners, Online PR, Students, Workplace Issues, word of mouth | 27 Comments »
Friday, September 28th, 2007
So said both Phil Gomes on the Forward Podcast and Terry Fallis on Inside PR independently using the same phrase to sum up the key point to keep in mind if you're a young person building your reputation online.
This diagram from Flickr user rikkcarey drives it home:
We don't know what ...
Posted in Blogging, Marketing, Networking, New Practitioners, Online PR, Students, Workplace Issues | 2 Comments »
