Comments on: How Not to be a Key Online Influencer

By: bob

bob — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 18:07:59 +0000

Can’t disagree with Bailie more. A farely measured response from FedEx to a somewhat tactless (if not braindead- I mean he JUST landed, he hadn’t actually VISTITED the city at all)tweet by someone they had contracted with. I’m not sure how we get from a response from fedEx’s PR dept to “wated corporate resources and bad business acumen”?
Unfortunately, the problem many blogger’s face is they feel they have to fill their page and have some sort of insightful comment insight andor just take a position instead of saying i’m not sure or thats not my area of expertise. The comment about a lack of business acumen and corpopate resources are a perfect example. Just cause you have a blog doesn’t mean you shouldn’t lose the ability to know when to keep your mouth shut on certain subjects when you realize you are just blowing smoke. Discretion IS the better part of valor, epsecially when you talk just to talk. I do believe that most bloggers would bore me to tears at a dinner party. (Now I’ll prob get accused of restricting 1st amen rights- my point is- just cause you have a blog doesn’t make you intertesting or right, and most bloggers are just people who shouldn’t be published anyway.

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By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:49:55 +0000

It may be “benign” to visit someone and take a quick whiz on a lawn ornament, but it’s certainly rude. It’s certainly no less rude when the person you are going to see is your boss.

So we saw who was irritated by the comment, how many people were well served by it? Considerably less than a handful? Why make such comments? The fact that today everyone is given a forum gives some people the inflated ego to think their comments really matter, and that thousands are waiting on their every royal word and decree. Nobody really cares but those whom you offend.

By: artbrock

artbrock — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:26:37 +0000

Actually, I think it shows the FedEx communications team have more social media savvy than they’re being credited with. You’re republishing their pitch about how committed they are to Memphis and how much they’re doing for the city.

They’ve take a pretty non-noteworthy tweet and turned it into an Internet controversy which makes them look good and gain free exposure while everyone spreads the word because they think it makes Andrews look like a dork.

Dork or not, the FedEx response was a pretty smooth move.

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