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Tokyo…
My commitments in Tokyo meant I couldn’t make it to Fleishman’s Beyond Blogging event in Washington this morning. Both embarrassing and a real disappointment as David, Shel and the the team had assembled a great crew of panelists. My apologies to all.
It’s great to see another major agency weighing-in on the space.
Tokyo is Tokyo – marvelously efficient, incredibly clean and welcoming. The Keio Plaza has been through a big upgrade with W styled rooms and great hi-speed. My only advice, avoid the rainy season!
Tokyo…
I’m in Tokyo this week so will probably post on the light side. If you need to reach me, Skype or email are best.
Woz + Drury = International Segway Polo!
Some great photos from downunder as the Silicon Valley Aftershocks (Segway Polo!) visit New Zealand to play the Pole Blacks. Hey, the NZ Polo gang let the Segway riding maniacs onto their grounds! Steve Wozniak turned-up, much to the delight of my mate Rod – one of NZ’s hottest tech entrepreneurs.
Alaska Air’s Near Disaster Unfiltered…
I Hope Jeremy has big bandwidth and a big server because his account of the Alaska incident is scarry – and it’s going to attract zillions of eyeballs. Via Jeff Jarvis. Compare his account with news reports- some of which are featuring Jeff’s photos.
“Citizen Journalism” in action. Jeremy P makes a really interesting point that one lesson for any PR practioner facing a crisis is that you are going to need to manage transparency. It seems that Alaska employees are going nasty-comment-happy on Jeremy’s (the Jeremy on the plane) blog. Assuming he would never know I guess, they commented away. Jeremy simply looked at the originating IP addresses, which were from Alaska. And he was gracious enough to suggest that they might have been hackers using Alaska’s IP addresses. Not likely mate!
So, if your communications policy doesn’t cover commenting on blogs as an employee – then you might want to make sure it does.. and then make sure employees know it. And, if your crisis communications plan doesn’t feature monitoring of and communications with the blogosphere – better get on that as well.
Off to China
I’m off to China for a week. Gadling has a great pointer to Chinease blog sites – The China BLog List.
