Fun to meet up in London last night with a group of UK bloggers. We met at the Hereford Arms, around the corner from my hotel in South Kensington. Very simpatico group: Neville Hobson, Mark White, Martyn Davies, Tom Shelley, Keith Collins and Alex Manchester (editor & blogger for Melcrum).
Lots of discussion - and little agreement - on the recent Edelman / Wal-Marting episode and what it means for Edelman's reputation as *the* PR firm that can help big clients negotiate the blogosphere.
Edelman's biggest goof was their silence. It took the firm five days (an eternity in the blogosphere) to fess up publicly to their role in Wal-Mart's fake blog. Still, I think the incident may blow over.
Neville's podcast of our blogger meet-up
Stay tuned... I will post this later.
Previous Comments
Tina Lang-Stuart said on October 19, 2006 at 10:42 AM
Debbie: I agree. Edelman’s silence and Steve’s Rubel (as one of their chief bloggers) saying he didn’t know about it. But a story always has two sides. This one also shows that blogging and social media/CGM still needs to mature to eventually become MSM. Mistakes need to be made and if prominent members of the blogging community make them it’s even better because then these faus pas will be widely discussed - and hopefull resolved.
Neville Hobson said on October 19, 2006 at 02:43 PM
It was a terrific get-together, Debbie, wasn’t it? Well worth doing.
Hope to have that conversation up as a podcast on my blog by the weekend.
Enjoy the rest of your European vacation. Heh! Saying that reminds me of that Chevy Chase movie…
NevilleHobson.com said on October 22, 2006 at 05:55 AM
Conversations in the pub
Last week during the Melcrum communications conference in London, Debbie Weil and I organized a get-together with some bloggers which took place in a pub on Wednesday evening.
Those who came and became part of a great evening were Matt ONeill, T…
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Neville Hobson said on October 22, 2006 at 06:07 AM
Debbie, the podcast is up:
http://www.nevillehobson.com/2006/10/22/conversations-in-the-pub/
We had a great time, didn’t we? And I hope you’re enjoying the rest of your European trip.
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