I’m out of commission what.. a day??
North Korea lobbing missiles at us… Kenny Boy assumes room temperature (who knew the man had a heart?) and then this.. THIS!
Archive for the 'Mouthing Off' Category
[B]logger Steve Rubel, senior vice president at the Edelman public relations firm in New York, said he liked the fact that Edwards spent a good portion of the time during his session listening to what other people had to say.
“He has been a great ambassador for the tech industry, at least in terms of his adoption of the tools, which I think says a lot,” Rubel said.
Pardon my French but WTF???
Steve, I love you. You are a true macher. But you’ve been drinking the Gnomedex Kool Aid.
As much as I admire Senator Edwards, I’ll vote for whomever promises to get us out of this nightmare war, deal with the growing debt crisis and restore the goodwill our nation once had.
If that person happens to know a wiki from a hole in the ground, so much the nicer but that’s pretty much icing on the cake.
[B]logger Mitch Ratcliffe urged Edwards to give a blogger a seat on his campaign bus, with complete access and without restrictions, should he decide to run for the 2008 Democratic nomination.
Winer, sitting next to Rubel in the Bell Harbor Conference Center lobby, disagreed about the significance of such a move.
“Who cares if he puts a blogger on the bus?” Winer said.
Finally… Some perspective.
“He should put you on the bus,” Rubel answered. “That’s what I would say if I were advising him.”
“That,” Winer said, “would be courageous.”
Whoops! Spoke too soon.
Story here.
One of my very first bosses gave me a very good bit of advice. There are only 50 or so people in any given industry, she said, so make it a point not to piss too many of them off. Todd Defren of SHIFT Communications (see, I know it’s all caps!) has a tale of a unnamed Boston area PR firm asked by a client to hand over its work products to the new agency - SHIFT. At a hand-off meeting, a VP of the incumbent agency decided to act like an asshat.
No big surprise, I’ve worked in agencies and have known plenty of asshats. But Todd makes a great point about the consequences of acting like an asshat.
Consider how badly this one dumb move could hurt their business.
- The client will never again consider calling that agency.
- The client contacts present during the hand-off meeting won’t ever call them into an agency review, when they invariably move on to their next gigs.
- I will never recommend this agency in instances where we might have a newbiz conflict.
It gets worse. We talked about their poor attitude in an HQ staff meeting:
- 50-odd PR people in the Boston market now consider this agency to have a “black mark” against it.
- They won’t ever interview there as prospective employees.
- They won’t ever think to invite that firm to compete for their business, if they ever take an in-house marketing post.
All because some agency VP got pissy about turning over a few memos and databases.
Pissy, arrongent behavior is a given in most PR firms. It’s nice to see it’s not treated as a given all of the time.
Miss Rouge points out the latest rage among the upper echelons of the blogosphere.. giving advice on how to become… more effective bloggers!
Yippie!
It’s giving me hives as well. Any mention of Covey’s Habits of Highly Obsessive Compulsive Drones gives me ick chills.
Seriously, blogging is about self-expression. Make yourself happy. Don’t follow formulas. Rules were meant to be broken. And there’s not such thing as an ineffective blog.
