{"id":907,"date":"2005-10-30T04:21:45","date_gmt":"2005-10-30T09:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/_and_you_think_"},"modified":"2005-10-30T04:21:45","modified_gmt":"2005-10-30T09:21:45","slug":"_and_you_think_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=907","title":{"rendered":"And you think you have a terrible job…"},"content":{"rendered":"

You could be working for Bacon’s Information, Inc<\/a>  and sending clueless emails to bloggers!<\/p>\n

Christine Birkner, Special Project Supervisor at Bacon’s Information, Inc. has the embarrassing chore of sending an incredibly off-target email to bloggers along with a broken survey in MS Word and a request to fax<\/em> the results back to her!<\/p>\n

I received an email from Bacon’s asking for my help. I am glad to offer assistance to anyone who sincerely requests it, so I opened Christine’s survey and found a corrupted MS Word document instead of the web-based surveys that bloggers use constantly. I couldn’t answer the survey because the document was broken, but the choice of answers precluded any intelligent responses anyway!<\/p>\n

Look at this first question:<\/p>\n

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1) What is the primary reason you blog? <\/p>\n

   -To document my opinions on topics I am interested in
   -I am a recognized authority in my field
   -Want to open up dialog with others interested in the same topics<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Notice that I must choose between expressing opinions or being a "recognized" authority in my field. I guess if you are not "recognized", your information is considered opinion. <\/p>\n

What about reporting findings from research? What about reporting observations of current events? Has the writer of this survey ever read a blog? What about Rathergate did she not understand?<\/p>\n

Bacon’s represents itself as a media\/blogging database for PR professionals and yet they do not understand the Internet or bloggers. <\/p>\n

I was moved to send an email to Christine as follows:<\/p>\n

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Christine,<\/p>\n

This is a lame survey on several accounts.<\/p>\n

1. You have used a Word survey when a web-based survey would be better and faster.
2. Your limited choice of responses shows little understanding of blogging.<\/p>\n

Your approach casts great doubt on the ability of Bacons to provide any meaningful information to PR professionals on blogs and bloggers. If you are a legitimate source of media information, I suggest you engage bloggers in real communication and develop an approach that will provide real data to your PR public.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Bloggers Allan Jenkins<\/a> and Mitch Joel<\/a> have expressed their opinions far more humorously than I. It appears that Bacon’s may get more information than they bargained for, even with a broken survey.<\/p>\n

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