The Perils of Pedagogy
February 29, 2008
I argue that the hardest part about making it into PR is knowing how to manage your own reputation. I “googled“ my name and for all the good, positive and rewarding hits about me, there were just as many negative, stupid and down right trashy hits about me.
So what is the point of this post? Well, I am battling for control over my own message, the need to be the centre of attention and the passion to work at a PR agency with real clients. Clients do not like to see their PR people getting more attention then themselves, or so I am told.
So hopefully you are able to read between the lines and see the struggle that I am going through.
Moral of the story—as I start to build a good name for myself, I am also tearing it apart.
Sunday, Sunday, Sunday, See Offline Miranda Battle Online Miranda. Who will win?
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Dave | February 29, 2008 at 3:30 pm
I only know one Miranda, the online Miranda. Hard to imagine that there would be bad associated with either. My guess is and I could be wrong, anyone that looks only at the negative, is not someone or somewhere you will want to work. I won’t name the company, but it is a huge advertising agency. This Company recently launched or branched off a division to service online advertising. Throughout the video there is enough use of the “F’ word to make a (sensitive) sailor blush. This is (in essence) their Press Release. I am no prude, but when I watched it, I got an instant thought … sense and sensibilities are changing. This company may be one of teh first (and it may backfire yet) of what will be acceptable. Long hair and tattoos were once a sure fire way NOT to get considered for a job. Unless you are eating puppy brains and washing it down with the blood of Parakeets, I don’t think you have anything to worry about.
My 2 cents worth. Start YOUR OWN PR FRIM!
Enjoy your honesty, personality, posts. Don’t go changing.
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Will O'Neill | March 3, 2008 at 9:44 am
I think past transgressions are probably forgivable, and as you continue to blog and be active here, it will be this ‘good’ content that takes greatest prominence on Google.
Eventually, inadvisable hits would slip further and further down the search results even on their own… That’s just time.
So, just keep doing what you’re doing and everything will be fine.
I wonder if there will be a market in the future, though, for a P.R agency that deals only with very sensitive clients, who for whatever reason have a need that everyone connected with them is ‘clean’ in terms of online activity? ‘All Saints Communications’, or something like that.
You’d have to go way out of your way to stay prepped for that from an early age, though.
In the long run, the social contract will simply have to adjust to reflect the fact that we all know more about each other now. There’s no other way.
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Miranda McCurlie | March 4, 2008 at 11:58 am
Hey Will,
Thanks for your comment on my blog.
Your comments were well said. The funny and ironic thing is, yesterday I was approached by a reporter for the Wall Street Journal about how I feel about putting myself out there and the repercussions I have encountered, especially when googling my name and seeing, “Miranda McCurlie’s Boobs”.
I like when you said, “In the long run, the social contract will simply have to adjust to reflect the fact that we all know more about each other now. There’s no other way.”
This is exactly how I feel. If we are now mixing business with pleasure (eg. using FaceBook for PR pitches) then we need to upgrade our understanding of public and private life and accessibility.
Important Blogging Statistics
(http://www.blogworldexpo.com/general-information/general-information/important-blogging-statistics.html)
I realize these are U.S. statistics, but with our dollar being so close to theirs–is there a difference anymore? (a topic all in it’s own)
-Miranda McCurlie