Here's a cheat sheet for your blogger relations program. If you follow these steps you'll have a lot more success and will be well on your way to establishing a credible voice for your company or client in the blogosphere: Start With Research -- Every Blog Has:...
Blogs are the Wild West of new media opportunities for doing PR. Unlike old media, run by journalists with decades of experience and set ways of doing things, blogs are in their infancy, and even the ones run or written by former old media journalists are more or less unburdened...
Last week, we talked about how President Bush was breaking new ground in doing the first Presidential on-camera online only interview. This week the news is about the Republican who wants to succeed him, John McCain, and his creative blogger relations strategy. McCain is scheduling briefings with left-wing bloggers like...
In brief: Email filtering is now starting to be used by bloggers to block and delete PR spam before it even reaches the intended recipient There really haven't been many consequences to spamming journalists with unwanted PR pitches -- until now. ...
Uh-oh. Here's a good lesson for the day in the new world of media relations and why you must have -- or must commit to putting into place -- a blogger relations component of your media relations strategy. Seems that earlier this month, Amy Jussel, founding director of Shaping...
There was a saying in the pre-Internet days of the media: "Don't argue with people who buy ink by the barrel." The same holds true today in the Internet era: don't argue with bloggers who have unlimited bandwidth. They will always win. Today's example comes from Valleywag,...
You've got to hand it to the folks at Ogilvy PR. First they stuck their necks out to codify a "Blogger PR Code of Ethics," and now they are back with Round 2, consisting of modifications and amplifications of their original code. For their efforts and for posting it all...
Nice job by the folks at Ogilvy PR to come up with a code of ethics in conducting blogger media relations. Their code is reprinted below in its entirety. It's as much a Code of Blogger Media Relations Best Practices as it is a Code of Ethics. ...
Chris Anderson, the editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine and author of "The Long Tail," ignited an online PR firestorm recently by posting a list on his blog of 300 PR people who had sent him unsolicited and unwanted PR pitches, saying that he had unilaterally and permanently added them to his...
The traditional news media has a fairly uniform set of ethical guidelines that PR practitioners can rely on when pitching stories: no fancy gifts, no free trips, no pay-for-play. And most traditional business journalists are pretty conservative when it comes to investing -- they don't buy individual stocks and they...
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