September 30, 2007 – 12:05 pm
Investigative journalist Bob Burton’s book Inside Spin, subtitled The dark underbelly of the PR industry, is an impressively researched look at the machinations of (principally Australian) PR practitioners – or, based upon the appallingly unethical behaviour he chronicles, what you would hope to be a very small subset thereof…
Fellow journalist, and onetime collaborator, New Zealander [...]
September 1, 2007 – 2:23 pm
On a recent edition of their excellent podcast, Inside PR, Terry Fallis and David Jones suggested five questions that you would want to ask your PR agency before you signed them to help you out with a social media campaign or project. I would recommend that you listen to the whole show, but to cut [...]
February 12, 2007 – 7:38 pm
The TimesOnline ran a story last Friday, Fake bloggers soon to be ‘named and shamed’, heralding the passing into law of a EU directive that bans sockpuppetry.
And while I have to admit that this is admirable in its intent, I really am struggling to come to terms with how on earth they are going to [...]
December 13, 2006 – 1:39 pm
There has been quite a bit of discussion in the blogosphere about the social media release and its subsequent adoption by some of the big PR firms. And, as some agencies here are starting to use microformatted information in other applications, I thought it might be interesting to look at what these standards mean for [...]
By Jason Ryan
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Posted in Communications, Public affairs, Web standards, social media
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Also tagged data, government, govt2.0, hcal, hcard, hrelease, microformats, rss, social media, social media release
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October 25, 2006 – 11:10 am
Constantin Basturea has updated his list of worldwide PR blogs, and the current count runs to 555 feeds. That’s right: over 500 PR blog feeds, from Argentina to the US, Australia to Trinidad and Tobago.
So, if you haven’t got into the whole RSS thing, this is one (more) compelling reason to do so. Constantin has [...]
October 18, 2006 – 2:17 pm
The font of all knowledge, well maybe not knowledge but certainly a wellspring of information, Wikipedia, has a page on Astroturfing that, given recent developments in the public affairs/communications space, is a must read.
Wikipedia defines astroturfing as:
formal public relations (PR) campaigns which seek to create the impression of being a spontaneous, grassroots behavior. Hence the [...]
By Jason Ryan
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Posted in Communications, Public affairs
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Also tagged astroturf, blogs, edelman, ethics, herceptin, roche, russell brown, social media, transparency, walmart, wikipedia
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