Comments on: Marcom or PR: What Are We Really Doing Anyway?

By: roula

roula — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 16:36:35 +0000

Hi. I’m glad our blog launched such a discussion on your blog. It is not a marketing tool. The purpose is to get the community to have such discussions. Although it didn’t happen on the wiki itself, I’m glad it’s happening on your blog.

By: Lauren Vargas

Lauren Vargas — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 13:01:42 +0000

Thanks, Kami!

How do we wear our many hats? Is there such a thing as pure PR…? This is a constant battle for some — or you can embrace the different facets of communications and realize that it is all communication and about the end-user.

By: Kami Huyse

Kami Huyse — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:42:38 +0000

Randi has helped me out before and I appreciate it very much. Thanks for your hard work Randi, and don’t take the crititcism to heart. You are one of my best resources.

By: Michael Sommermeyer

Michael Sommermeyer — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 19:00:03 +0000

Thanks Randi for the followup. I am sure it just happened that on the day I was thinking about PR and Marcom you were heavy on the marcom side. It always seems to happen that way.

BTW, I appreciate the daily Issues and Trends, mostly because I sometimes do not have time to track down all of the articles. It is always good reading and usually sends me down a new path. Thanks for your hard work, and folks, let us see if we can get more people to talk about public relations and boost up the daily article count.

By: Randi Mason

Randi Mason — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:37:56 +0000

The difficulty in putting together Issues and Trends is simply that on an average day, there are not enough published articles on the subject of public relations. Therefore, we tend to include related subjects that may be of interest to persons within the public relations field.

We have received permissions to link to the copyrighted content included in a few of the resources that focus specifically on public relations (PR Week, PR News, the Holmes Report) but when we include links to those publications, the feedback from our membership was that we should not be doing so – after all, these articles are only available to subscribers to those publications, and those who subscribe would have read any information of interest to them. If I do find a link that does not require a subscription to said publication, I do try to include it.

As a former librarian for a large public relations firm, I frequently received requests for information on what was going on regarding sponsorships, product placement, word of mouth, and yes, even marketing. So those were the parameters I kept in mind when developing the newsletter. I do try to keep the number of articles on advertising and marketing down to a dull roar, but sometimes I cannot.

Feel free to e-mail me if you have any questions. We do read all the feedback on PRIT, and when we can, we do make adjustments.

Thanks
-randi

By: Kami Huyse

Kami Huyse — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 02:57:57 +0000

Sure, her blog is Communicators Anonymous, and the URL for her 12-step program (writen in February) is:

http://12commanonymous.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/02/coming_to_under.html

Happy reading Mike.

By: Michael Sommermeyer

Michael Sommermeyer — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 16:30:58 +0000

Kami,

I could probably use the 12 Steps. Can you point me to Lauren’s site?

By: Kami Huyse

Kami Huyse — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 03:13:33 +0000

My friend Lauren Vagas has a 12-step site for PR types. I hadn’t really considered this, although I practice public relations in the traditional sense. However, I feed I have to follow MARCOM to stay relevant and fresh. Cross-disciplinary learning is often very instructive.