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November 22, 2005Weber Shandwick blogger will do fine after he learns playground etiquette
Weber Shandwick employee Robert J. Ricci has joined the PR blogosphere, welcomed by über-blogger Steve. I'm sure he' ll do well, once he adds RSS (so that people will actually read him) and once he learns the rules of the game, one of which is "avoid every appearance of lifting ideas from other PR bloggers without credit": Robert J. Ricci on November 19 in a post about Google Analytics: According to EU law, Web site owners who set cookies must not only alert their
visitors to the fact, but also explain how they're being used and how they can
be disabled. Swedish PR blogger Fredrik Wackå on the same topic the day before: According to Swedish and European Union law, it's illegal to set cookies without
telling people on the site that you do, what they're used for and how they can
be avoided. Come on... it's not a direct quote-lift, but the two are separated at birth. And Fredrik is the only PR blogger who had addressed the issue. It's an increasingly common phenomenon, and one that's getting a lot of discussion in private conversations around the PR blogosphere: One or two or three bloggers will post on a subject, and build a conversation. A few days later, a doyen or doyenne or wannabe will post on the same subject, with no credit, as if the idea struck him out the blue justlikethat. Maybe clients are fooled into believing you are brilliantly insightful, and maybe that's the point: but the rest of us aren't, so let's just stop it. Give credit when credit is due. Technorati Tags:
son of a pitch, weber shandwick, pr, public relations, ethics, google analytics Update: Ricci has now credited Wackå (see comments below). The "you" in the last paragraph of my post describes everyone lifting ideas and reworking them with no credit -- it does not refer to Ricci specifically. Posted by Allan Jenkins on November 22, 2005 at 10:10 AM in Bloggers, Ethics, Public Relations | Permalink TrackBackTrackBack URL for this entry: Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Weber Shandwick blogger will do fine after he learns playground etiquette:
» Do you always need to give credit for blog posts? from A PR Guru's Musings - Stuart Bruce Tracked on Nov 22, 2005 8:15:49 PM CommentsJust wondering if you actually emailed this person discreetly to gently point out his mistake before you started blasting him openly? Seems kinda snarky to me otherwise. Posted by: Anonymous Reader | Nov 22, 2005 3:37:10 PM He's not an intern. He's a salaried employee of a major public relations firm. Posted by: Allan Jenkins | Nov 22, 2005 4:45:02 PM Congrats on being the first one to smack me down, Allen. Not citing the CorporateBlogginBlog - which happens to be one of my favorites - was an oversight that's since been corrected. Good luck to you. Posted by: Robert J. Ricci | Nov 22, 2005 4:52:41 PM Moreover, he doesn't even provide his email address on the blog...or any contact information, for that matter, other than a Yahoo screen name. Posted by: Allan Jenkins | Nov 22, 2005 4:53:08 PM Actually, he *does* syndicate his blog. Putting the homepage into your aggregator will (hopefully) grab the Atom feed if said aggregator knows where to look for such things. YMMV. Still... Could be made a bit more obvious. As for me, I always look for the feed indicator in the lower-right-hand corner of my aggregator. Posted by: Phil Gomes | Nov 22, 2005 10:39:34 PM Referencing other bloggers - or at least linking to them - seems to be a dying courtesy. I can think of some bloggers that pretend to come up with posts and ideas, and don't reference the people that might have written the original post. Posted by: Jeremy Pepper | Nov 23, 2005 12:34:42 AM What? You mean people *actually* take *other* people's work and try to pass is off as their own? i'm taken aBACk Over heariNg Such a revelation. *8-) Posted by: Phil Gomes | Nov 23, 2005 5:41:44 AM Phil, Ricci's feed wasn't there when I first visited. I see he's now added a feed, and a feed button. Good to see! Posted by: Allan Jenkins | Nov 23, 2005 8:00:56 AM >What? You mean people *actually* take *other* people's work and try to pass is off as their own? I know; hard to believe, isn't it? Just the other day, as I was saying to Mrs Buttocks, my next door neighbour (on the left-hand side; not The Joneses with that terrible teenage runaway girl with the dark eyeliner on the right), I was saying to that nice neighbour Incontinentia (funny name she has, though...) "what a terrible shame so many people steal so many things." "Yes," she agreed. "By the way, can I have my copy of the New Yorker back that you borrowed?" I'd forgotten I'd borrowed it -- I gotten into that habit when Tina Brown was editor; it was just too kinky. But it's nice with a G&T -- in the den with all the books. But I'm still dead against people borrowing stuff (you know, like words n stuff) from other folks and not letting you know where they got it from. After all, I have a code of ethics... It took me days to work out, but here's four of them: It's all based on the fact that to write, publish, and be read is a privilege and responsibility. Being mindful of that privilege and responsibility: 1. I shall not barter my words or my silence. I hope you like them; like I said, it took me DAYS to think them up. I hope some bugger doesn't pinch them and claim them as their own... that would be JUST my luck, hey?! Posted by: Lee | Nov 23, 2005 11:15:14 AM You know the Jones girl, too? Wicked thigh-highs. And, fortunately, she barters her silence (so far). Posted by: Allan Jenkins | Nov 23, 2005 11:36:09 AM Yes, she does (phew!). But thankfully she doesn't close those bedroom curtains when her parents are at work -- got you on camera, Jenkins. Let's discuss terms: According to The Applet I'm worth 24,275.22; you are now worth $54,760.38. I'll throw in a jar of Maxwell House - you turn the Coffee into Desirable Roasted Better Communication Results and I'll call it a deal. Posted by: Lee | Nov 24, 2005 7:59:41 PM Mind you, when Performancing can garner 823 subs after just 2+ weeks (http://performancing.com/node/228) , and 43folders.com enjoy over 24k subscribers, I want to go and hide and take my blog down... Posted by: Lee | Nov 24, 2005 8:07:33 PM The comments to this entry are closed. |
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