Managing Your Online Reputation: Pukka Tips

Techcrunch editor Michael Arrington believes that the era of trying to manage one’s online repu­ta­tion is almost over: Trying to control, or even manage, your online repu­ta­tion is becoming increas­ingly difficult.

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Influence and Virality: A Primer

How do things become ‘viral’ on the Internet? And what exactly do we mean by ‘influ­ence’? Marketing and PR people want their messages to spread in the most effective and effi­cient way possible, and so these ques­tions have received a great deal of atten­tion, par­tic­u­larly in recent years, as we’ve seen the rise of ‘viral memes’

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#PRDebate Start Again

On the one hand, I am obvi­ously and unashamedly biased. I run a network for the digital industry. I believe that digital people are the cleverest, most capable, most focused and honest that the media industry has to offer.

On the other, crikey, there are an awful lot of digital folk working in PR nowadays. And digital outfits that ‘do’

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The Rise and Fall of Dave Colossus

I never quote Seth Godin. I find his stuff far too happy-​​​​clappy for my comfort zone (ach– another amer­ic­anism!) Yet here I am: Seth on America choosing Neil Armstrong as their ‘moon landing guy’:

NASA did what many organ­iz­a­tions do when picking someone to act as company spokes­person. They avoided risk, played it safe and

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Conflict?

Update: Had a good chat with Daryl Wilcox, and it looks like we’ve come to a sensible com­promise that will allow Tim to do his job and Response Source to maintain its purity. All’s well, etc.

My staff writer at NMK — Tim Hoang — works for the PR company, Rainier, as well. That’s always some­thing we’ve

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Clients in the Wild

Just struck me, in a not–entirely–arti­fi­cial way, that if you are inter­ested in PR and the Web, as per the last post, then you ought to come to the event we’ve organ­ised at NMK on Tuesday next week (20/​​11/​​07), ‘Clients in the Wild’. There are about ten tickets left at this point, I under­stand. Click the

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