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June 22, 2005 in Media, Media Orchard, Public Relations by Scott Baradell
Idea Grove Offers Corporate Blogging Services

Corporate blogging is finally beginning to come into its own, as the Wall Street Journal and others have reported. Here’s a select list of blogs authored by CEOs and other corporate execs.

The Idea Grove has recently added consultation on consumer-generated media channels, such as blogs, wikis, and podcasts, to our service offerings. We’ll assess what online influencers are saying about you; then, we’ll help you engage in a dialogue with them. If it makes strategic sense for your company, we’ll also help you create and maintain your own blog.

E-mail Scott Baradell at info@ideagrove.com or call 972.235.3439 for more information.

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June 21, 2005 in Media, Media Orchard, Public Relations by Scott Baradell
WSJ: Don’t Worry, Young People Have Never Liked News

For naysayers (like myself) who bemoan today’s obsession with celebrity news and relative disinterest in “hard” news, particularly among those under 30, the Wall Street Journal offers this clever column that argues that the sky isn’t falling.

As the writers state:

If a time machine could whisk us back to ancient Sumeria, we bet you we’d find the stampers of the Daily Cuneiform pulling their beards and muttering that kids these days are interested almost exclusively in frivolous things: the hot new Gilgamesh adventure, putting away too many bowls of fermented barley beverage, and the doings of other youth, as opposed to worrying about crumbling canals and what the Hittites are up to.

Maybe. But then again, look what happened to the Daily Cuneiform…

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June 21, 2005 in Media, Media Orchard, Public Relations by Scott Baradell
Yes, Journalists Use Blogs as Sources — But It Makes Them Feel a Little Dirty

Thanks to Steve Rubel at Micro Persuasion for spotting a study by Euro RSCG/Columbia University, which shows that more than 51 percent of journalists use blogs regularly, and 28 percent rely on them to help in their day-to-day reporting duties, including finding story ideas and sources and researching and referencing facts.

The most amusing part of the study is that of these same journalists, only 1 percent said that they found blogs “credible.”

Funny stuff. Hurts a little getting off that high horse, I guess. Here’s a full report on the study.

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June 20, 2005 in Media, Media Orchard, Public Relations by Scott Baradell
Is There Really Such a Thing as "Celebrity Journalism"?

I don’t think so. The so-called profession of “celebrity journalism” is so degraded by the sheer power of Hollywood stars that you can’t really call it journalism — just shameless boot-licking. And now the U.K.’s OK!, the biggest friend of all to celebrity publicists, is coming to the U.S. OK! pays stars big money for exclusives and gives them pre-approval on all stories — no-nos in the traditional world of journalism. Read all about it.

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June 18, 2005 in Media, Media Orchard, Public Relations by Scott Baradell
Yahoo Exec Learns That Loose Lips Sink Blogs

Via Micro Persuasion, here’s a little cautionary tale about spilling the corporate beans on your blog. (I say “little” because the so-called scoop in question wasn’t that big a deal.)

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