Just in case your were feeling all happy and content, two UK bloggers had the misfortune to ask me my opinions on the state of PR and blogging recently…
Sarah Stimson: "I met my latest interviewee, Tom Murphy, about 18 months ago when he was delivering part of the "Delivering the New PR" conference…."
The last Friday I had a very interesting chat with Brendan Cooper of the famous PR Friendly index…
Earlier today I had the pleasure of attending Croke Park for the Ireland-Scotland Six Nations match.
Sitting in the Hogan stand we had a fantastic view and as usual there was vociferous support for both teams. Everyone was having a great time except that is for the poor woman sitting in the row ahead of us.
Three times during the match she looked up from her newspaper to glare at someone in a row behind her who had obviously shouted too loudly and made it hard for her to concentrate on her paper. She didn’t watch one minute of the match.
Two things:
Why oh why would you waste €70 on a ticket for a match you’re not going to watch? Surely you’d be better off finding a nice warm bar?
Secondly if you’ve no interest in watching the match why bother going when you are denying someone who would love to watch the match live?
Sometimes I really wonder… below is one of the tries she missed.
As long as I have worked in PR there has always been an uneasy relationship between those that practice in an agency and those that practice in-house.
As someone who has spent time in both roles, this doesn’t really surprise me. After all working in an agency and working inside are in many respects very different jobs. I always tell students they should try and get experience of both sides of the profession, because at the very least, it will provide them with a broader perspective.
Over the past couple of weeks I met with a number of friends and former colleagues and I was stunned.
On a number of occasions I heard working in-house referred to as a type of nursing home for those no longer able to work in a "real job" i.e. the agency.
The comments were prefaced with: "no disrespect Tom but…"
The interesting things was that these comments came from people with little or no in-house experience.
There is no doubt that the differences between agency and in-house are many fold, but just in case anyone is looking at moving in-house as part of their end of career wind down process, I’d think again. 🙂
Working in-house isn’t a retirement plan…
Murphy's Law 