Tips on blogger outreach by Lady Melbourne
This video by fashion and lifestyle blogger, Lady Melbourne, has sound advice for PR’s and brands on contacting and collaborating with bloggers. Check it out.
The big fat blogosphere…start here
If there’s one good habit to develop early in 2010, it’s the habit of exploring and engaging with the blogosphere – but where to start? That’s the question. Lucky for us, people (with a penchant for laborious tasks) like to rank bloggers on lists, which is great if you’d like a short cut to the cream of the crop. For example, Australia has some cracking bloggers who can be found [...]
Food bloggers & PR professionals’ meet up
Lately, there has been some very public instances in which PR people have been ‘named and shamed’ online - on blogs and in twitter – for the way they have approached food bloggers. It hasn’t been pretty and when situations like this occur, it doesn’t do anyone any good. I attribute this strife largely to a general lack of knowledge and understanding about bloggers and blogging. So in an effort to improve relations between PR [...]
A new manifesto for PR
Is it just me or has PR been slammed more in the last month than in the last few years? The industry appears to be copping it from all sides. We’ve had: Neil Shoebridge’s AFR piece titled How to lose clients and annoy reporters. He argues that the PR industry is awash with incompetent people and outlines his top and deady PR sins. Jason Whittaker’s guest post on Mumbrella titled Precious PR [...]
