The Growing Backlash Against PR Spam, And The Rationale For MicroPR
feeds.feedburner.comFound 5 days, 5 hours, 34 minutes, and 5 seconds agoGina Trapani, of Lifehacker, has created a prspammers wiki where she and others can publicly out PR firms that are spamming bloggers at their personal email addresses, or using other unsavory spammish practices. ...
Open Letter to Gina Trapani of Lifehacker
pr-squared.comFound 6 days, 4 hours, 42 minutes, and 43 seconds agoHi Gina - I'd email you directly but apparently you've blocked my agency's domain name (along with many esteemed peers ). I have written many times about crummy PR practices, and have acknowledged more than one mistake of our own, over the years. ...
auburnmedia.com
K elli Matthews, of the University of Oregon, has a good post in PROpenMic.org entitled PR Taking it in the Teeth (Again) .
I'll share my response, but ask that you visit her post and read the comments by students (sign up required, membership is free). ...
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tpemurphy.com
Posted by Tom Murphy in : Blogs , Media , Online , Public Relations , 8 comments
Bad or irrelevant PR pitches are nothing new.
Many of us, in our more quiet moments, will admit to probably not investing the time and effort we should have from time to time (a long time ago obviously ).
The key thing is to remember your mistake and learn from it.
We're seeing more journalists and bloggers publishing lists of PR firms they are blacklisting. [Ref: Chris Anderson last October]
Now a guy called Matt Haughey is doing something similar as has Gina Trapani .
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highered.prblogs.org
Lifehacker writer/blogger/editor Gina Trapani has taken the art of blacklisting PR flacks to a new level with a wiki listing of PR firms that spam bloggers .
The idea of publicly shaming PR spammers first gained traction when Chris Anderson first chided "lazy flacks" on his blog. (See my post from last November, PR flacks and the new media: a cautionary, not-so-long tale .) But Trapani has made blacklisting a more social act, inviting other bloggers to add their favorite PR offenders to her wiki .
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