Day: October 20, 2004

I hadn’t come across Fullrun prior to my post on the e-consultancy story.

Fullrun provides lots of news and resources for marketing and PR professionals in the technology and telecoms sectors in the UK.

There’s a 30-day trial available at no cost.

 

The e-consultancy in the UK has an interesting article on how blogs, e-mail and other online tools are giving stories, casual comments and online discussions a life of their own….

“Well, we’re about to find out what will happen with this trend. In particular, media insiders in the form of PR people are starting to get very keen on blogging…. Which throws up an interesting quandary – the first rule of PR is don’t become the story. But will PR bloggers be able to resist, as they take on blogging for themselves?”

Footnote:

Links from the above piece: 

• The post in question on Siliconvalleywatcher.
• Drew’s post on the matter.
   

Burson Marsteller has announced that Thomas Nides will take over as Chief Executive Officer next month, replacing existing CEO Christopher Komisarjevsky, who is retiring after ten years in the hot seat.

A new site, Communintelligence has launched as the “Communications and PR Knowledge Portal”.

It’s promoted by an Iowa based marketing communications company:

“Communitelligence.com is a new knowledge-sharing portal built and supported by communication leaders, associations, schools and businesses. Our goal is to help improve organizational and human communication by giving Communication, PR and Marketing professionals instant access to expert-led knowledge communities, learning events, resources, associations, schools and businesses. The site uses leading-edge self-publishing technologies to allow topic experts and members to build comprehensive, ever-evolving, wisdom-sharing communities on key communication topics, from internal communication to intranets to visual literacy and writing.”

It’s worth a look.

Footnote:

I see a certain PR blogger’s firm is a featured listing on the site!

 

Mike Manuel points to a new PR blogger Giovanni Rodriguez from Eastwick Communications.

I have come to the conclusion that my parents didn’t spend an inordinate amount of time debating what to call me.  I mean ‘Tom Murphy’ isn’t exactly exotic or unique.

A cursory search on Google brings up PR people, politicians, software developers and playwrights.

Earlier today I came across a blog from another Tom Murphy called “Representative Press” which covers motives for 9/11 and attacks on President Bush.

There’s no biographical details, but just in case you thought I had a side line on political intrigue… I haven’t.