Day 2: Lessons Learned
After the experience of Day 2 of Global PR Blog Week, we the editors thought we'd highlight one major point and reiterate a few things.
The major point:
The participants in Global PR Blog Week are self-selected. We simply posted an invitation on our wiki, hoping people with an interest in sharing their knowledge about PR, marketing and blogs would agree to join in our effort. Many have, and you see the results of that work here.
However, that openness of invitation rested upon the trust that people would not abuse the opportunity and use this forum as a link engine for their own businesses. Unfortunately, you will see that that trust has been abused in some of these posts.
We are sticking to our original philosophy of openness, and the posts will remain. However, this community will need to evaluate whether next year's event will be juried and invitation-only.
Related to that point, there are posts here that are only going to reinforce the negative opinion of PR people and the suspicion that we are trying to corrupt blogging. There have been some rather strongly worded comments to that effect. We leave it to you, community members and readers, to respond.
Some reiterations:
We remain astonished at the level of typos, punctuation and grammatical errors in these posts. We three editors, working nearly full time over 24 hours yesterday, simply could not keep up. Please proof your work! We are professional communicators, for goodness sake. This is totally unacceptable.
During our second day of editing, we realized that the multiple posting problem had more than one dimension, as posts with the same titles broke the extended post links. So, once again, please follow these rules:
- No more than 3 posts should be submitted per day per author
- Do not title those posts the same
- Post titles should be short (4 words or so)
We decided to feature only the first 15 posts on the front page, as otherwise the page took too long to load on dial-up connections.
Finally, we entered into a discussion as to whether we should apply for a Creative Commons license, and which one to choose. We have no closure on that one, as there doesn't seem to be one for groups of multiple authors. We've posted to their licensing discussion board and will let you know the results. We'll also continue this discussion on the wiki in the near future.
Author: Elizabeth Albrycht | Jul 13, 04 | Permalink
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Category: Announcements
- About
- The Global PR Blog Week 1.0 is an online event that will engage PR, marketing and business bloggers from around the globe in a discussion about blogging and communications. The event is scheduled for July 12 - 16, 2004.
- Links
- The New PR Wiki
- Recent Entries
- Looking forward to 2.0
- Site Statistics and Trends
- A participant’s final thoughts
- Traditional PR is dead - Long Live DIY PR
- Quiet is the new loud
- Recent Comments
- Rick Barry on A Very Brief Look at Blogging for the Uninitiated Executive
- George Mc Quade on The Battle Over PR
- Duncan Adams on Robert Scoble interviewed on Corporate Blogging
- Kevin O'Keefe on How to launch a corporate blog for a professional services organization
- William Luu on Site Statistics and Trends
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