77+ PR and Blogging Wars Articles and Resources

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 at 3:17 PM | Category: Blogging, Business, Links, Marketing, Meryl's Notes Blog, Writing 10 comments

Lots of PR talk hitting the scene as of late as PR peeps and bloggers argue about PR spamming, blacklists, and doing PR pitches right.

Just the messenger trying to collect them all in one spot. I do both sides of the PR biz… receiving-end and PR’ing end.

Advice, Arguments, Debates, and Articles

  1. 5 PR Pitches: The Good and Bad
  2. 7 Promises of the PR Pro [pdf file]
  3. 15 Reasons To Just Freakin’ Do It…Stop The Complaining and Take Command! Make the Pitch Your Friend
  4. Blacklisting Bloggers
  5. Blacklisting PR Firms
  6. Blogger Blacklist and other PR Pipe Dreams
  7. Blogger Relations: I don’t need a new best friend.
  8. The Caring and Feeding of the Press: If you read nothing else, start and finish here. Best article on the topic from the wonderful Esther Schindler.
  9. Dear Nasty Reporter/Blogger
  10. Die! Press Release, Die!
  11. Dueling Blacklists: Bloggers vs. PR Firms
  12. An Email Blacklist of Technology PR Agencies
  13. Flacks Need Manners
  14. For Immediate Release Podcast #345: Discussion on the topic about 8 to 10 minutes into podcast. [Link: Eric Eggertson]
  15. The Growing Backlash against PR Spam, and the Rationale for MicroPR from Stowe Boyd.
  16. How Do I Get Placement on Blogs?
  17. How to Pitch to Bloggers
  18. How NOT to approach JV partners and bloggers
  19. How Not To Help a Reporter: Yeah, go right ahead. I dare you.
  20. Making Mistakes and Amends in Blogger and Media Relations
  21. Matt Haughey on How to Pitch to Bloggers
  22. Meet Lois Whitman, the Poster Child for Everything Wrong with PR
  23. Not Short, Not Sweet, but to the Point…
  24. PR Blacklists: Treating the Symptoms
  25. PR blacklist won’t fix imperfect system
  26. PR industry crisis and a lovely weekend
  27. PR Bludgeons Itself Again
  28. PR Lessons of a Clueless Blog Pitch
  29. The PR Rolodex Myth
  30. PR vs. the Bloggers part XXVII
  31. Quelle surprise: Another PR Blacklist
  32. Social media will not kill PR, but it does expose industry weaknesses
  33. Sorry PR People, You’re Blocked
  34. Stupid PR Watch: Reporter pet peeves
  35. To Blacklist, or Not to Blacklist
  36. Top Ten Lies PR Agencies Tell Their Clients
  37. Twitpitch is the future
  38. Twitter PR
  39. Value of PR for Bloggers
  40. Won’t Anyone Think of the Phone Calls?
  41. Where Do We Go with Blogger Relations?
  42. Why PR Folks Should Blacklist Bloggers
  43. A Young Pro’s Take: Media Relations and the New PR Blacklist

And tons more… oi.

Resources

  1. AngryJournalist: Journalist share what they really think of PR.
  2. Art and Science of Blogger Relations eBook
  3. Blogger Blacklist: Requires permission.
  4. Global PR Week
  5. Internet Press Guild
  6. PR Spammers Wiki: Watch out for these PR folks… they spam bloggers.
  7. Twitter Blacklist
  8. Twittering Journalists Wiki: Lists journalists, reporters, and media outlets on twitter. PR folks, please don’t spam these nice people.

Blogs

  1. Bad Pitch Blog
  2. Beyond PR
  3. Blinn PR Report
  4. Blogging Me Blogging You
  5. Common Sense PR
  6. Corporate PR
  7. Engage in PR
  8. First Person PR
  9. HighVizPR
  10. Hispanic Marketing and PR
  11. India PR
  12. KD Paine’s PR Measurement Blog
  13. Launch PR
  14. Online PR Thoughts
  15. Naked PR
  16. POP! PR Jots
  17. PR 2.0 Blog
  18. PR Blogger
  19. PR Communications
  20. PR Disasters
  21. PR Interactive
  22. PR Meets Marketing
  23. PR Squared
  24. PR Voice
  25. PR Wordsmith
  26. PR Works
  27. Pro PR
  28. PRoactive
  29. PitchEngine
  30. Publicity Hound
  31. rajesh@blogworks
  32. Corrine Weisgerber’s social media PR class
  33. The Straight Pitch
  34. Strategic Public Relations
  35. Valley PR

Updated: December 17, 2008

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