inCommunicado - eric eggertson

Ragan Communications blogger Steve Crescenzo watched a colleague get crapped upon by what he and
some others perceived to be a horde of rabid, hysterial bloggers.  He has learned several things from the episode:

Don’t insult people, if it makes you look like a pompous ass (I’m paraphrasing);
Don’t piss off insecure bloggers, or they’ll attack you;
A lot […]

[Read more →]

Robert French offers business communicators a 12 step program to get over their addiction to Old School communications techniques.
A couple of the steps:

We admit that WOM / social media no longer allows us to have total control over the message.
Admit to yourself, those in your organization, your stakeholders, and to any other interested human […]

[Read more →]

I guess it was the dismissiveness of David Murray’s insult that pissed me off. The way he called communications consultant Allan Jenkins "a nobody in the communications business" in the closed milieu of his trade magazine editorial added to my ire.
If he’d just called Allan a rude, insensitive curmudgeon I wouldn’t have had an issue […]

[Read more →]

Yesterday, I was just a nobody.
Today, thanks to the solidarity of other PR blogging nobodies out there, I’m part of a movement.
Inspired by Andrea "Nobody" Weckerle and with the creative spark of Ike "Nobody" Pigott, the official Nobody Club has been established.
Being a group of obnoxious blogging evangelists and communications pros, we will no […]

[Read more →]

I’m pretty much a nobody in the communication business. Don’t take my word for it. Ask someone important, like David Murray.
As an important editor, David Murray is a somebody in communications.  He has influence and a platform in an important magazine.
And he’s learned his lesson.  The last couple of times he took bloggers (and the […]

[Read more →]