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May 14th, 2008

PR, blogs, media, and doing right by folks

There was a bit of a dust-up recently about making lists of “bad PR people” and it’s taken me a while to get to this because I’ve been answering emails from PR folks.  I put out a call on ProfNet that Manscaping 101 (my men’s grooming blog on b5media) was open for business and I’d […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments

April 15th, 2008

Colleen Coplick presents to CPRS on "Beyond Blogs", but someone didn’t get the point

Last Friday my friend Colleen Coplick presented to the Vancouver chapter of CPRS (PR people group) on blogs and social media.  I got a sneak peak at her slides Thursday night (she asked for feedback).  I think she was right on the mark and didn’t have too many (26, about right for an hour).
However it […]

By Tris Hussey -- 6 comments

March 17th, 2008

More tips for PR-Media people on reaching out to bloggers

Bloggers have a reputation for being a pretty prickly bunch as far as PR and marketing folks are concerned.  I don’t think we’re too much different than other media folks, though we are more likely to broadcast your gaffs to the ends of the Earth–I guess that makes us a scary bunch.
Regardless Cory Doctorow wrote […]

By Tris Hussey -- 1 comment