2 days ago by madan bahal

Agency chiefs launch campaign for change, but get lukewarm response. Top PR professionals are showing limited enthusiasm for a controversial campaign aimed at cutting PR spam. The campaign, named An Inconvenient PR Truth, was launched last Thursday by Realwire chief executive Adam Parker, with the b ...

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7 days ago by Nina Grenningloh

I just learned about the Inconvenient PR Truth campaign, a PR industry initiative launched by Realwire’s CEO Adam Parker. The campaign aims at initiating a debate on PR irrelevance and how it’s polluting our online environment. According to research by news release distribution service Realwire, eac ...

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8 days ago by franchisepr

Cheers to RealWire in the UK of putting together this fantastic video outlining the dangers of PR Spam: http://inconvenientprtruth.com/animation/ . MatchPoint and its users agree that the old way of sending out PR Spam via media directory is not only harmful to a PR practitioner’s reputation, but al ...

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12 days ago by Stephen Waddington

Post by Stephen Waddington of Speed Communications Journalists’ complaints about PRs are the same in 2010 as they were in the early 90s when I started my career as a reporter on a trade magazine. We used to receive 400 to 500 press releases a week by fax and post. 90 per cent were complete bollocks. ...

an Inconvenient PR Truth - inconvenientprtruth.com · 17 references

12 days ago by Mark Borkowski

Mark Borkowski on the An Inconvenient PR Truth campaign: “PR spam is as contagious as chlamydia and has the same effect; it can cause sterility in the people infected. The only difference is that everyone in the PR world’s passed on a spam infection at some point, accidentally or not. The best proph ...

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12 days ago by Maximilian Tatton-Brown

The writing of this post was accelerated by today’s launch of An Inconvenient PR Truth, a marketing campaign from RealWire with its own clever take on the PR spam situation. It’s easy on the eyes, cleverly tied in with RealWire’s colours and even comes with its own journalists’ Bill of Rights But of ...

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12 days ago by vitispublicrelations

Got this today from Realwire, sounds like it would be worth signing up to: An Inconvenient PR Truth - a campaign to reduce PR spam Near the end of last year we carried out surveys with recipients of press releases which focused on the extent to which the releases they receive from the PR Industry as ...

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12 days ago by AdamParker

We have launched a campaign today that aims to address the issue of irrelevant press release emails. To learn more watch the video below and then visit the An Inconvenient PR Truth website if you would like to get involved in the debate.

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21 days ago by Adam

In the words of Donna Summer and Barbara Streisand, enough is enough. For too long now the same topic has come up over and over again – why can’t the PR industry ensure that the press releases it sends only go (in the main) to recipients to whom they are relevant? This probably doesn’t apply to ever ...

an Inconvenient PR Truth - inconvenientprtruth.com · 17 references

36 days ago by Jeremy Bray

As many of you know, I have been planning for several months to attend the 2010 CES and had a number of things planned for the show including shows from CES and much more. Unfortunately, that won't be happening. There are two major reasons for the canceling this years CES plans. First, if the PR spa ...

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