Strive Notes

My last blog post of the year, see you in January 2008!

1.  Sarah Wurrey and Shel Holtz are two of many debating the Stop Blocking campaign. Forty-six per cent  think social media is more important than TV, radio and newspapers. Eighty-five per cent  think social media is vital to the communication mix but 66 per cent  think it should be banned at work. Personally I think this 66 per cent is wrong. Every company is different and some can’t incorporate social media into work in the way a job like mine can. However, the statement about salaried positions (in comparison to employees being paid by the hour) spending a lot of time out of office hours working is something that should definitely be factored into the equation. 

2.  Are ITV in trouble again? Dead phone lines and engaged tones on X Factor has caused a huge stir with Ofcom. I don’t know why, this time next year people wont even remember their names. Surely Ofcom has better things to be putting their time and money to than reality TV

3. I personally don’t appreciate being called ‘a perky, pesky PR person’. Like Claire (in the comments) says, do these journalists who feel no shame in endlessly badmouthing PR ever consider the young and not so experienced (something they all were once) in all of this? I try to avoid sending the emails and making the phone calls that so many journalists seem to hate but sometimes the choice isn’t mine.

4. Money Magazine’s 101 Dumbest Moments in Business  is out and Shel Holtz lists the PR related moments. My personal favourites are number 16, 51, 67 and 89. Made me laugh if nothing else

5. I am so glad talk of removing words from The Pogues Christmas hit Fairy Tale of New York has been squashed. To my knowledge, the masses haven’t complained about the word in question in the last 20 years, so why start making it a homophobic issue now? Definitely an example of out of control media censorship as far as I am concerned.

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