UPDATE:
Constantin Basturea blogged about Voce and raised a few questions. I tried to write a comment but I'm not sure it went through so here is a recap. The SilconValleyWatcher folks were gracious enough to visit Voce and we covered a lot of ground in a short amount of time. We all fired ideas around the room and some of the names and associations were misplaced. My colleague and Voce co-founder, Dave Black, is the 2005 president of the Silicon Valley chapter of PRSA and would like to organize best practices around blogging for PR consultants. Perhaps this would be a good topic for another GlobalPRBlogWeek session?? Mike Manuel and I work with JotSpot. One of our early recommendations was a corporate blog. The JotSpot folks were hesitant due to the time constraints of launching the company so JotSpot founder, Joe Kraus, started his own blog that we leveraged during the launch. The interest was certainly there but the time needed for a proper corporate blog wasn't available. I'm not the guy to talk about Real Networks. Despite having "Podboy" for a last name, I don't yet own an iPod.
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Posted by: samat | January 28, 2005 at 10:30 PM
I tried to post this to Constantin's blog, and I think it didn't work.
So, hopefully, I'll remember what I wrote.
This is what PR blogging should be about. Not touting clients for touting's sake, but bringing up issues in PR, like case studies, and talking about how to raise the level of PR in the blogosphere.
As for JotSpot, I think the right thing was to do the blogging via Bnoopy. I want a Bnoopy doll. And, a JotSpot T-shirt. And, soon, I'll need to harass Dave about PRSA.
Posted by: Jeremy | December 20, 2004 at 09:21 PM
Constantin, your comments didn't bother me - in fact, it reminded me that I should have taken more time to write my post on our meeting with Foremski. I also just wanted to clarify the names and associations in Foremski's article so folks got the credit they deserve - Foremski made Mike and I look too good in that article and I didn't want other people to feel left out...you know, bruised blegos and all :) Thanks for your note!
Posted by: Matthew Podboy | December 19, 2004 at 12:08 AM
Matthew, thanks for responding! Since trackback is not working, I'll add here the comment I made on my blog.
Responding to Mike's comments, I said that I wasn't trying to uncover any conspiracy; it just seemed funny to me that both you and Mike managed to post about your meeting with Tom Foremski without mentioning any of your clients or the great work you're doing for them. That's all. Modesty is something that should be commended, especially for PR consultants :). This is what I tried to do - but my execution was poor, it seams, and I'm sorry for that.
Also, the only question I asked was if Voce played any role in the Freedom of Choice campaign - and Mike clarified the matter in his comments. You're right, we definitely need to have a session at the Global PR Blog Week 2.0 on best practices around blogging for PR consultants, and it's great to see that PRSA is interested in joining this discussion.
It looks like I really need to add emoticons to my blog - hopefully, they will make the tone of my postings less misleading :)
Posted by: Constantin Basturea | December 18, 2004 at 06:22 PM