I follow PR guru and author Peter Shankman on Twitter, and he posted a great blog yesterday that I had to share. People are always singing the praises of social networking (yesterday's quick response on twitter to the plane crash in the Hudson, new business acquired, etc), but the pitfalls often fall through the cracks. That's not to say there haven't been a few biggies.I talked about facebook as a tattle tale a few months ago, and Peter Shankman's example from yesterday was equally as damning. First off, here is the post itself. Seems harmless enough on first glance:
Well, it turned out not to be harmless. The poster, James Andrews, an agency rep from Ketchum in New York, is talking about Memphis where he had come to give a digital media presentation to over 150 FedEx execs. FedEx is a big client of Ketchum's, and has been headquartered in Memphis for years. It turns out, and understandably so, many of the FedEx employees took umbrage with the remarks about their home. In fact, they wrote him this note:Mr. Andrews, If I interpret your post correctly, these are your comments about Memphis a few hours after arriving in the global headquarters city of one of your key and lucrative c...
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