Comments on: Advice from a Tech Blogger about How to Pitch

By: Conducting PR in the Million-channel Blogiverse

Conducting PR in the Million-channel Blogiverse — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:01:00 +0000

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By: Eric Eggertson

Eric Eggertson — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:03:12 +0000

Todd:

I was actually thinking more about how the Tweet showed how cranky Marshall was, yet I thought he managed to come back from his rant with some useful stuff.

Didn’t mean to add to Margaret’s (or your) embarrassment unduly.

She’s sort of like the cheery person who says “Have a nice day!” to the co-worker just before he explodes about inane chit-chat interrupting his busy day. In the wrong place at the wrong time.

As for the Facebook message being too coy, well, maybe it could have used some indication of what kind of info she was referring to. But considering people on Facebook are poking, slapping and dry-humping each other virtually (and launching zombie attacks), I think the playfulness was sort of in keeping with the medium.

And hey, have a nice day! ;-)

By: Todd Defren

Todd Defren — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:10:34 +0000

Agreed that we can all use this as a learning experience… I’ll likely post on this issue, too, since we were one of the many folks who got called out. (It was bound to happen at some point, despite staff training & best intentions!)

Ugh, that tweet screenshot makes me want to barf, though. Soooo glad you thought to use it. ;)