Wednesday, April 02, 2008

PR Rolodex Myth | Blogger Outreach Homework | PR Week Media Survey | Fast Five | 03.02.08

1) The PR Rolodex Myth | Topaz Partners
Doug Haslam is right. The relationships are based on a mutual value exchange.

2) PR people: do your homework BEFORE you reach out to bloggers | Marketing Roadmaps
Susan Getgood reviews the four P’s of blogger relations and some painfully funny gaffes. Oy.

3) PR Week: Media and Transition | PRNewser
As journos’ jobs change, our jobs change. PRNewser links to the full PRWeek report.

4) Pitching Fits | Copywrite, Ink
"If you have real news, it hardly matters how you send it — by fax, e-mail, carrier pigeon, or on a roll of toilet paper. Why? Because, um, it’s news. Unfortunately, most companies do not release news at all."

5) 10 steps to manage your feed reading time | Jason Falls
RSS makes it easy to pull a couple hundred feeds onto one screen. Well, then what?

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3 comments:

Rich said...

Nice round up Kevin. Some of our favorite; thanks for including us too.

Best,
Rich

Doug Haslam said...

Kevin,

Thanks for including the Rolodex post. I'm gratified to see the reaction, though honestly I would get more disagreement. So I'm doubly gratified.

Gerry said...

Good pitch but poor media handling shows how TV in New Zealand snapped back over an Olympic torch relay story angle gone wrong -
www.prdisasters.com/?=584 -
Cheers guys, Gerry