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Bad PR, dating geeks and another night out with bloggers…
Here’s a collection of PR pitches that landed in my inbox recently – some good, some, err, not so good!
PR pitch #1: Twitter = Talking in public
Tim from Olgivy, sent me an email yesterday asking me to blog about an ad campaign for a technology giant. I love advertising so technically it should have been something I would have been happy to blog about… and the ads also looked good.
Such a shame his pitch was the worst piece of PR I have ever seen! I hated the tone of voice in his email (sounded like he couldn’t be bothered), and the email looked like copy/paste job…. but the icing on the cake was this tweet:
Tim will hopefully learn that talking on Twitter = talking in public. I found the tweet by following the blog link on his signature email!
Pitch #2: Bloggers and dating
This morning I found an interesting article in my inbox – 50 reasons to date a geek. Let me get this right – I am a blogger, hence a geek, hence single right? 
The article is a little repetitive but nevertheless fun to read.
Pitch #3: Geeks unleashed at blogology
I attended the awesome monthly Bloggers Meet Up organised by Andy Bargery with the help of PR agency Splendid last night.
The Meet Up took Place at Diageo’s offices just behind Bond Street, to promote the Smirnoff brand, and the Moscow Mule, a tasty cocktail made of vodka, ginger ale, and a dash of lime.
Slpendid PR also did a fantastic job at reading our blogs and coming up with cocktails individually designed & personalised for ourselves and our blogs.
Good to see the usual suspects but also Julius, Hayley (albeit briefly) as well as some new faces!
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01/10/2008 - 11:02 pm
Poor Tim. Named and shamed in public!?!
01/10/2008 - 11:18 pm
Hold on, you didn’t mean to say OLIGVY, did you? Please say no…(http://blog.ogilvypr.com/?p=243)…
01/10/2008 - 11:27 pm
The Ogilvy example is really funny – what goes around comes around… And it even happens faster on the internets!
02/10/2008 - 8:35 am
Tar and Feather for Tim!
02/10/2008 - 8:36 am
Hi there – I discovered your blog through the London Bloggers meetup.com group (which I just joined) and hope you don’t mind the random comment and subscriber! I also like this post as I am on both the sending and receiving end of blog pitches and am always interested to hear other experiences/reactions. Hope to read more from your blog soon!
02/10/2008 - 10:18 am
Sylwia – yes I meant Olgivy! I am aware of the code of conduct as I used to work for a WPP company!
Willem and Cedric – yup, bad PR spread fast indeed!
Meaghan – welcome on board! See you at the next Meet Up?
02/10/2008 - 10:27 am
Hey, I’m not that new! I went to one when I was on holiday in February, so there!
Good to meet you too
02/10/2008 - 11:40 am
Hopefully so! I just realised my work email and url was in the post – my personal blog is at http://www.thetopfloorflat.com
02/10/2008 - 7:18 pm
Hi Lolly
Thanks for the kind words about Tuesday!
It was really great to meet you all. Let me know if you’re ever in Shoreditch – perhaps we could catch up over a ‘New York Lolly Moscow Mule?!’
Rax