Social media gives bad pitch recipients an eager audience to witness, with reality-TV like glee, the horror landing in their in boxes on a daily basis. In fact, the tools available to us online now allow us to vent in a variety of ways.
Boing-Boing points us to this all too familiar exchange around embargoes. We have a free and powerful production studio available to us online folks. Press send with care. As Guhmshoo, one of our favorite bloggers, reminds us below, Lists are not PR.
First of all, I would like to thank your for writing Full Frontal PR. I just finished reading the book and putting together a slidecast for it on my blog. I am a senior public relations major at Georgia Southern University, and the tips you gave in the book were fantastic. I especially liked the section on fear and confidence. It was inspirational to a lowly intern and college student. Now to the post at hand, I really am in shock at the pitch you recieved from that woman. There were so many flaws in that short amount of copy you would think she would atleast catch one. I understand this job is timely and there is A LOT to get done in day, but with mistakes like those she might as well not reach out at all. Hopefully my generation of practioners will be a little more conscientous of these simple and, frankly, obvious issues.
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