Day: July 24, 2002

Flash Hall of Shame #14….Cane Communications [Special Award Winner]
So I am trying out Mozilla the open source Internet browser. It’s clean and fast but I haven’t yet allowed the Flash virus to install its Mozilla plug-in. Anyhow I go to Cane Communication’s (a UK PR company) website and it tells me that I MUST install the Flash 6 plug-in to get into their site. Now this is a PR company, probably looking for clients, trying to impress journalists and you can’t get into the site without Flash. Now obviously this is the same for any completely Flash-built sute, but to add further insult to injury on the ‘no flash detected’ page, there’s no contact details, no alternative HTML information. Excellent strategy. Excellent communicators.

Some interesting online reading….
Catching up on some PR reading since my break I came across a very interesting article in O’Dwyers PR Daily by New York Post columnist John Crudele. The piece details how Pre-Paid Legal Services reacted to a negative piece he wrote about the company. I’d take John to task on his fifth point but it’s a very interesting read.

If you’re interested in some personal thoughts and insights into the world of technology and technology related PR and marketing, you could do worse than stop by SIPR and have a browse through Shel Israel’s It Seems to Me (ISM) columns.

Finally, CornerBarPR’s Brenda Clevenger has published the first part of a two-part piece on on-line PR. If the whole ‘on-line PR’ thing is still a little foreign it’s not a bad introduction.