pellacor.com

Complete waste of our money.

When you have such great internationally recognised advice, how does this happen?

Am I missing the social media tie in? Is this supported by national media campaigns?

It feels like tv on the web, and as such it will fail.

I had a conversation last week with the New Zealand Olympic Committee about the possibility of supplying some content onto their site for the games in Beijing. They said they would be open to it in the future, but had hired their own writer for the Olympics. I kinda suggested that maybe content [...]

I was so far into a post about a bad customer experience I have had today at Lombard Car Parking Building when I realised, there is no point ranting - I can express myself within google.

So here goes guys:

Lombard Car Parking Building is the worst car parking building in New Zealand.

It is [...]

We all experience this life apart; and that separation wrenches a hole in our subjective which can never be completely filled. In a perfect world we would be able to share our sorrows and joys; we would be able to see through the night, by knowing the morning sun fills us again.

This is [...]

Some people really seem to care about issues affecting the greater good and can often be overheard sipping ethically traded coffee at cafes around the city proclaiming with a healthy dose of indignation their views on one crucial issue or another. “They are ruining our rivers”, they cry, “and polluting the atmosphere”.

Often [...]

What a week it has been; we have laughed, we have cried, we have really started to make a difference to the supply of news online. The feelings are probably further down the track than we actually are, but it feels good nonetheless.

Mum is up tonight and I am off work tomorrow – [...]

http://www.metafilter.com/69637/The-Internet-is-a-Copy-Machine

This post at Simple and Loveable has got me thinking.

The carrion cry of the dying stages of last century was integrated communications, and this school of thought posited the notion that all of an organisation’s messaging should come from a central strategic communications strategy supported by mass media advertising. And to be fair when [...]

People who put their fucking babies in photos with them on Facebook, particularly when they make it their profile picture. Sure you may think that your new kid is the best baby of all time and the future saviour of the human race; but it isn’t. Get over it. Move on.
People [...]

Inside the media industry you hear the term news judgment bandied about a lot. It is an ephemeral concept born by PR practitioners, journalists, sub editors and editors; it surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the industry together.

It is the force that makes a press officer wary of a journalist’s [...]