Another PR fiasco for US Government
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Sebastian
At least that’s how I view it. Richard Edelman points to a New York Times article, apparently a Washington-based public relations firm, the Lincoln Group, is “paying newspapers to print government propaganda…and has paid about a dozen Iraqi journalists each several hundred dollars a month because their past coverage has not been antagonistic to the […]
Million dollar page rip off for charity
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Sebastian
Ok, so Hugh at Gaping Void found out about a college friend of his who seems to be the first to copy the MO of The Million Dollar Homepage. Turns out there is somebody else. German online giant Bild.T-online has joined with the children’s charity organisation “Ein Herz für Kinder”, trying to pull an exact […]
Glitter-wrapped Robbie (Update)
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Sebastian
Interesting story which has developed in the past couple of days. Originally, I had planned to send this story to Shel & Neville for discussion in the Hobson and Holtz Report. However, in what is a first since I am listening to the show, they moved it up a day. Since I am usually late […]
Skin worn thin
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Sebastian
Well, conosco certainly got under Martin Roell’s skin today. Interestingly, I immediately knew what agency he would be mentioning after the headline “Macromedia mit Flex 2 und Flash Player 8.5 auf der Web 2.0-Konferenz” , because I reed conosco’s feed and they do post quite a lot about Macromedia. Apparently, Martin who I’d consider a […]
Another example: Communication done right
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Sebastian
Over at Fischmarkt I found a piece about crisis management. Apparently, there was a problem with Six Apart’s servers due to which Fischmarkt lost some data. The response was immediate, almost before they noticed the problem themselves. First he received an email by Heiko Hebig from Six Apart Europe. A little later, an email from […]