Thanks to everyone for their views.

Thank you for the clarification.

I use my blog and Twitter for my business, which is Online Newsrooms and social media. Unfortunately, being the owner of a company, my personal life and business life are somewhat mixed together, so my personal blog and Twitter accounts are actually also my business accounts. We also use Twitter for our clients to help them extend their reach using social media channels.

If you would like to send me an email directly, I would be more than happy to provide the links to the Blog and the Twitter accounts. I can be reached at steve@tekgroup.com. We use it extensively for both marketing, sales, and for helping our clients get their message out, and have found it to be quite successful.

Thank you.

Steve posted a reply to you just a little while ago that was caught in my blog’s spam filter. In his post, he lists a number of blogs, Facebook and Twitter accounts but they all appear to be about his company. Since your question is specific, as I read it, to his own blog and Twitter name, and since my blog posting neither mentions nor references his company, I have chosen not to approve his response to you because I deem it as purely commercial for his company.

If you wish me to email you the contents, let me know.

dh

Can’t find your blog or you on Twitter. What’s your blog address and Twitter name?

R.

My exit strategy is a solid demonstration of exactly what we are discussing here today. Our clients, PR communciators, answer to these high executives who want results in their Online Newsroom.

My comments have all been offering another side of an argument that I find flawed. Isn’t that what social media is about? The ability to engage with people and offer up arguments to what I find to be inaccurate information. If standing up for myself and my organization is seen as arrogant, then that is unfortunate, because arrogance is the last thing I am trying to portray.

The initial thread of David’s post was to say that you could build an Online Newsroom with Wordpress, and that organizations like Ford are using Wordpress for this purose. My initial comment was to plain and simply disagree with that. Ford is not using Wordpress for their Online Newsroom, and furthermore their existing site could not be built with Wordpress.

Our Online Newsroom solution takes into account the many problems that PR communications are having today. We have many social media components as well as many features that David says are obsolete, such as the press release. At the end of the day, our clients have to answer with results and our Online Newsroom solution has provided those results for a long time now, and we’ve evolved our software each and every year to include features and functions that keep up with current trends.

This isn’t about me, but about the PR people who come to us with problems every day, and we work with them to solve them.

I appreciate your concern and offer to tread lightly, and I mean that. However, I too am actively engaged with blogging and social media and I feel that I have a right to offer my opinion and my criticisms just like everyone else. This blog and my comments are in no way personal attacks on anyone, but rather just trying to ensure that accurate information gets put out. If that has come across as arrogant, I do apologize, because that is not my intent.

Need a hand finding an exit strategy?

You might want to tread lightly regarding D’s blog. Its readership it made up of top notch executives and passionate media bloggers who would love to use your performance as a example of what NOT to do.

keep it up!

Let me point out a couple of things to you. First, this isn’t about whose willie is bigger. It has nothing to do with your really silly remark about Fortune 2000 organizations or whether you like my blog’s java script. That’s downright inane.

It’s about a radically different approach to online newsrooms that embraces the protocols and styles of the current Internet era. So, it has nothing to do with how much traffic my blog gets or whether you are arrogant, which I believe you are in spades.

It’s about an era of openness, sharing, conversations and exchange. I have taken a look at Ford’s online newsroom, and it’s the old-school approach, plain and simple. Same for your other clients. If they want that, fine.

Second, I featured your company in my first book, Making News, published in 2006. It’s been fairly popular in the PR world. My publisher has asked me to update the manuscript, and this exchange has led me to review TEK Group’s dated approach to online newsrooms which, in my opinion, reflects a bygone style in the online world. So, don’t expect your outfit to be mentioned again as an example of the way to do online newsrooms.

I must say that I remain puzzled by your shrill protestations and personal attacks because it is really not relevant to either my blog post or to what’s happening in today’s online world. All I can say is … Steve, wake up.

dh

Paul

Your blog had 8,123 visitors in the month of March. – http://siteanalytics.compete.com/www.davidhenderson.com/ – I am confident in saying that me putting “Ford” and “Online Newsroom” into your blog will have little, if any, impact on our SEO. All of our clients combined get more than 8,123 visitors per hour. Any SEO to be had from me simply trying to point out examples of my work is not worth as much as me trying to clear the inaccuracies that have been put forth.

Do you have some examples of Fortune 2000 organizations using Wordpress for their official Online Newsroom?

Steve Downes
http://www.juicedigital.co.uk

I appreciate your blog and agree that your comments on Online Newsroom came across my radar. I’m not sure if that speaks to the footprint of your blog, or to the effectiveness of my blog scanning tools.

This really isn’t about being defensive. It is about ensuring that accurate information is being put out with regards to the products and services that my organization develops and yes, sells.

I stand by my comment that there is no way that you could build the Ford Newsroom with Wordpress. I’m not sure that is being defensive, or just expressing an opinion that comes backed with more then twelve years of hands-on experience.

Please show me an example of a Fortune 2000 organization that is using Wordpress for their Online Newsroom.