"Personally, I believe that the true promise of the social web is the ability to learn through listening, observation and mutually beneficial interaction and its effects and lessons reverberate and educate in the real world." Right on, brother.
- Jacob Mullins
people who freak out are probably those who have not spent the time to understand how they can customize their views with filters and lists. realtime FTW!
- Davide D'Incau
"Josh Dilworth and Adam Singer are two of the best PR people who get blogging. When I get an e-mail from Josh, there’s a very good chance I’ll cover that company, because he knows what I care about. And he answers e-mail past midnight, which shows he is as nuts as the rest of us. Stage Two Consulting (Jeremy Toeman)’s clients aren’t always the ones I am interested in either, but they always are careful… “Louis, I know you don’t usually cover… but…”, etc. so they have my respect. PR in today’s world is hard because many still don’t get new media. They aren’t participating, or if they are, it’s tentative. The few that get it right are memorable."
- Louis Gray
Louis -- thanks for the kind words. I'll repost here what we just spoke about on e-mail -- and I'd love others' thoughts too. Besides the obvious laziness and lack of proper socialization, hehe – lemme know what you think of this thesis: the problem is that the people best suited for PR (and marketing generally) do not typically self-select for PR (and marketing generally). Heck, look...
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- Josh Dilworth
Louis, couldn't agree more, Josh Dilworth is one of the most upstanding, mutually beneficial, and honestly nice people I have met in the industry. Josh, keep doing what you're doing!!
- Jacob Mullins
Louis, i love your examples, becasue a good pitch is a good pitch in any medium-- targeted, and respectful of the reporter/writer/editor. Scoble's response is interesting not because wo now know how he likes to be pitched (he's had his cell # online for yers, as he mentions), but that not all media are Scoble. email pitches work for some people, phone for others, etc etc. It's our job (I'm in PR) to approiach people the way they prefer. Yes, that's a lot of work- too bad for us.
- Doug Haslam
from twhirl
Joshua is one of the best too. Thanks!
- Robert Scoble
Appreciate the kind words Louis. To be honest, most web-based PR I do doesn't involve "pitching". Instead of pursuing bloggers, I try to do things they like enough to write about naturally. Things like this: http://www.slideshare.net/AdamSin... - but when I do pitch people, I try to *only* send things which are ultra-relevant.
- Adam Singer
"you're not going to get out of here for under $25/pp on brunch - that's a result of the many tasty dishes and prices on the high side. But if you're willing to brace the 15-30 weekend waits you can…"
- hunter walk
I suspect the same people who try to prevent the people in front of them from reclining their sites are the ones in front of me reclining theirs with abandon
- Brian Sullivan
Heh. I usually just put my backpack on the floor and put my feet up on it, thereby blocking the seat-reclining with my knees. Hmmm... That may be why my knees hurt after long flights. :-|
- Lisa L. Seifert
I just gently run the side of my thumb along their eyebrow that "usually" sits them right back up. ;)
- J. Abdul-Qahhar
Yeah, especially for those of us over 6 feet tall. I don't recline my own seat 'cuz I know what it's like to be on the receiving end.
- LogEx
I'm off to bulk order these and applying them on every seat but mine. I like the window seat.
- Andrew Trinh
@Logical 6'3" here and I know exactly what you mean. My favorite is when somebody reclines to my kneecaps and then they do the "bounce" to try to get it to go further. Then I have to tell them that my BONES are preventing it from reclining more.
- Paul Reynolds
I've also almost lost a laptop screen when it was open on a tray table when someone was reclining. Granted, it was a 17" laptop.
- Paul Reynolds
The real problem here though is not the people trying to recline but the airlines that try to cram 2, 3 or more extra rows of seats in and take up all the reclining space.
- Brian Sullivan