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Last Friday my friend Colleen Coplick presented to the Vancouver chapter of CPRS (PR people group) on blogs and social media. I got a sneak peak at her slides Thursday night (she asked for feedback). I think she was right on the mark and didn’t have too many (26, about right for an hour).
However it seems that not everyone enjoyed it:

You have to be honest. You have to be transparent. You have to join the conversation. Hang out on facebook.” After a half hour of this it was clear that she couldn’t really fill the rest of the half hour she was contracted to speak for. And really, even people with a nominal knowledge of social media most likely already have the “transparency schtick” down. Source: CPRS Talk on Social Media with Guest Speaker Colleen Coplick « Condofire

Now, here’s irony for you, the person complaining about getting the “transparency schtick” … doesn’t have his/her name on the blog or even an about page. Not very transparent!
Speaking about blogs and social to a group like this is really freakin’ hard. The audience is likely all over the map at both social media and computer levels. I wasn’t there, so I can’t comment on how she did, but since I did have an advance look at the slides, I know she covered her bases.
Blogs and PR folks, it’s tough. I launched (officially) my new b5media blog Manscaping 101 and I’m getting more and more emails from PR folks. Let me tell you, they have come a long way since I started blogging four years ago (yes it really has been only four years). What I’m getting now show’s they’s read the blog and want to suggest things that I really would be interested in.
Kudos to Colleen for doing it. And for your viewing enjoyment, her slides via SlideShare:
Photo by Lisa Thomas-Tench
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