The PR blogging world is thick. Funny thing about us PR folks is that we all seem to have opinions.
So, I was quite humbled when I was asked to contribute to one of the up and coming communities of bloggers at PRBreakfastClub. For an idea of why I am so excited to do this, you only need to look at the other bloggers on the site.
What do I bring to the table? I’m hoping a lot. I will be focused on a few of the things that I talk about here: federally regulated industries, B2B public relations, technical how tos and other best-practicey topics. To anybody who has found me from #PRBC, welcome here. I promise I’ll post regular content here to.
In the meantime, what do you want to see? What topics would you like to see me cover here or at PRBreakfastClub?
I’m more of a social media jam band than a rock star, but Jim Turner thought I would be a good fit to hang out on his SocialMediaSphere online show.
I was with some pretty interesting company, including Keith Burtis, who heads up BestBuy’s social media efforts, Amber Naslund and even Jason Falls, who works for advertising agency Doe-Anderson in Louisville (lou-UH-vul).
What’s a rock star?
Not me.
In all seriousness, people should be earning reputations for what they’ve done, not who they are. Sure, big personalities and hard workers and good writers all get noticed. But they get noticed because of what they contribute to the world. I try to do good work and practice solid PR fundamentals. Every once in a while I’ll take a risk. And, hopefully, it will work out.
Sometimes people get known for who they are. They basically were up on the mountaintop, shouting the loudest. But look at what’s happened. Jason Calacanis was, up until recently, a top user of Twitter based on number of followers. Now, he has about 7% of the top users followers.
My point is that the self-ascribed titles of guru, coach, rock star, whatever are completely irrelevant. Do good work and people won’t have any issue surviving. Or, as Jason said recently, “Shut up, get back to work and do good work.”