Still more on Bloggers vs PR flacks
Stowe Boyd wades into the stormy seas between bloggers and PR flacks and as usual, he gets it right:
The root cause here is the delusion on the part of the clients that this sort of PR carpet bombing works, that mass media messages embedded in a press release or press release-ish email work, and that [...]
PR vs The Bloggers part XXVII
Every year the New York City Press Corps lampoon the shenanigans of New York’s political elite at the Inner Circle Dinner. You may remember the pictures of Rudy G in a dress. What I remember most are the lyrics of the closing number. The assembled journalists address the audience of New York’s greatest movers and [...]
the sporting life
My buddy from my IBM days, Rick Bause, has put back on his sportswriter hat and started the Sportslifer Blog.
It’s about sports, and life and the intersections thereof.
Before working for IBM, Rick was a sportswriter, and it shows.
Here’s the feed.
Pitching away
How to pitch bloggers seems to be the question of the day among PR people first discovering this wonderful world of social media.
Apart from the obvious (you aren’t going to send out a mass email blast, are you?) I think it’s very important to remember that blogging for most bloggers isn’t a job like journalism [...]
Take the train
In the ‘right in my backyard’ department, the Derailed blog by Bobby, a MetroNorth conductor who works the New Haven line.
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