Comments on: PRobecast Episode #70 http://techprgems.com/2008/07/probecast-episode-70/ Conversations about PR, social media, technology and marketing -- with a special focus on the social media community in Greater Boston Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:44:30 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Tim Allik http://techprgems.com/2008/07/probecast-episode-70/comment-page-1/#comment-1093 Tim Allik Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:31:47 +0000 http://techprgems.com/2008/07/probecast-episode-70/#comment-1093 Brandon, thanks for commenting here. I guess we got a dose of our own medicine. We, too, aren't quite convinced that anyone is really reading our blog or listening to our podcast. It's key that Comcast didn't address your issue. The New York Times article kind of buried the lead on that one! You've engaged in great blog relations here and we sincerely appreciate it. We will be sure to mention this in an upcoming episode of PRobecast. And Peter - thanks for the link. I'll check it out! Brandon, thanks for commenting here. I guess we got a dose of our own medicine. We, too, aren’t quite convinced that anyone is really reading our blog or listening to our podcast.

It’s key that Comcast didn’t address your issue. The New York Times article kind of buried the lead on that one!

You’ve engaged in great blog relations here and we sincerely appreciate it. We will be sure to mention this in an upcoming episode of PRobecast.

And Peter – thanks for the link. I’ll check it out!

]]> By: Peter G http://techprgems.com/2008/07/probecast-episode-70/comment-page-1/#comment-1092 Peter G Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:30:21 +0000 http://techprgems.com/2008/07/probecast-episode-70/#comment-1092 Hey Folks! Awesome tip in this Probecast about Help A Reporter (HARO). I've subscribed to Peter's emails and absolutely LOVE them...and his humorous daily excerpts. On another subject, you MUST check out this very cool video showing new marketing innovations using water in Japan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HeUixe_Lpg&eurl=http://b3ta.com/links/ Leave it to the Japanese to figure out a cool way to get you to watch ads! See ya'll at the softball game on Monday! Go Termites! Hey Folks! Awesome tip in this Probecast about Help A Reporter (HARO). I’ve subscribed to Peter’s emails and absolutely LOVE them…and his humorous daily excerpts.

On another subject, you MUST check out this very cool video showing new marketing innovations using water in Japan:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HeUixe_Lpg&eurl=http://b3ta.com/links/

Leave it to the Japanese to figure out a cool way to get you to watch ads!

See ya’ll at the softball game on Monday! Go Termites!

]]> By: Brandon D. http://techprgems.com/2008/07/probecast-episode-70/comment-page-1/#comment-1091 Brandon D. Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:55:41 +0000 http://techprgems.com/2008/07/probecast-episode-70/#comment-1091 I have to admit that I was indeed surprised to receive an e-mail from Comcast, but I think the article in the New York Times blew my mild discomfort into something more like morbid paranoia. I think the only reason I said it was like Big Brother was because I was currently reading 1984. Sometimes, I wonder if any of the people reporting on this story did any research beyond the New York Times article and actually visited my blog, at brandonnotices.blogspot.com (the Comcast articles are in the June archive) to do any research. I directly address Comcast, at least rhetorically, in the first of my two articles about it. Many people, including yourselves, talk about this as though this were my personal diary meant only for myself, but this isn't true. I write for others, and I find it unfortunate that the Times suggested that I write only for my own benefit. If you look through previous months of blog articles, you can see that there really aren't very many comments, so I'd been used to the feeling that nobody was reading my blog; I was surprised that the first response was from Comcast. Something that disappointed me about this was that Frank Eliason contacted me by e-mail, rather than by commenting in my blog. I would have preferred him to comment, to make it a sort of continued discussion that anyone could pick up and add to. Instead, the e-mail he sent me turned it into a one-on-one thing. My metaphor is that a student complains somehow about a homework assignment, and instead of having a discussion with the whole classroom, the teacher pulls the student out of the classroom and talks patronizingly to the student. And Eliason's article did seem patronizing: he talked reassuringly to me, but no further actions were taken to remedy my issue. These ads still plague my guide, and I feel disgusted to use it. I have to admit that I was indeed surprised to receive an e-mail from Comcast, but I think the article in the New York Times blew my mild discomfort into something more like morbid paranoia. I think the only reason I said it was like Big Brother was because I was currently reading 1984.

Sometimes, I wonder if any of the people reporting on this story did any research beyond the New York Times article and actually visited my blog, at brandonnotices.blogspot.com (the Comcast articles are in the June archive) to do any research. I directly address Comcast, at least rhetorically, in the first of my two articles about it. Many people, including yourselves, talk about this as though this were my personal diary meant only for myself, but this isn’t true. I write for others, and I find it unfortunate that the Times suggested that I write only for my own benefit. If you look through previous months of blog articles, you can see that there really aren’t very many comments, so I’d been used to the feeling that nobody was reading my blog; I was surprised that the first response was from Comcast.

Something that disappointed me about this was that Frank Eliason contacted me by e-mail, rather than by commenting in my blog. I would have preferred him to comment, to make it a sort of continued discussion that anyone could pick up and add to. Instead, the e-mail he sent me turned it into a one-on-one thing. My metaphor is that a student complains somehow about a homework assignment, and instead of having a discussion with the whole classroom, the teacher pulls the student out of the classroom and talks patronizingly to the student. And Eliason’s article did seem patronizing: he talked reassuringly to me, but no further actions were taken to remedy my issue. These ads still plague my guide, and I feel disgusted to use it.

]]>