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Edelman's real HQ is located inside an innocuous-looking volcano. #publicrelations
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KidsDigital PR StrategistsThe people who made the internet happen are old and very smart now, with a lot of experience, not doddering fools looking to new grads to turn on their printers for them. #publicrelations
10/26/09
The story is a plant. Edelman was/is a leader in online viral marketing. They just don't talk about that side of their business, unless they get busted as they did with Wal-Mart.
10/26/09
There's also a world of difference between the web of 15 years ago and what it's morphed into today. To a lot of olds, it's still e-mail and websites, social networking was something you did face-to-face, and to call someone a friend meant that you trusted them. Now I get "friend requests" from people I've never met, and I can't quite bring myself to stoop to that level of shallowness.
That attitude has been haunting me over the last year, though. I've previously scorned Twitter and Facebook as vapid wastes of time, and I'm beginning to wonder if I should just let my Lifeclock turn black. #publicrelations
10/26/09
Just re-define the word "friend" and problem solved. I'd advise a definition of friend as "someone with whom you've had contact" and not someone you actually trust, actually like or even know. This is not so far removed from most face-to-face friends these days.
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When you call someone you don't trust, don't like, or (God forbid) don't even know your "friend," then the concept becomes meaningless.
(Sisters, this is how you end up in the hospital at 5am after allegedly being roofied, with no one there to listen to you explain that you only drank five mojitos, and of course you didn't have anything to eat, because you didn't want anyone judging you.)
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For example, I have a small group of Gawker friends, and as far as I know, I know none of them from meatspace. These are people who have impressed me on these threads with their reasoning, their perspective and their ability to convince me, although I don't always agree with what they say. (I would hope that those in my small band of followers are similarly discerning, but there's no accounting for taste, or the limits of Gawker's relationship model.) #publicrelations
10/26/09
The whole redefinition of friendship thing is not difficult. It's already happened to a large percentage of the population. They have more or less limited or removed elements of empathy and loyalty from the equation while instituting flexible time horizons/expiration dates.
Stated another way, most post-modern folks would go Sopranos on their friends, making them part of a N.J. landfill for an extra Tommy Hilfiger gift bag during fashion week.
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