Re: UKNM: longer question re pr

[Steve Miller]

The press has gone wild about portal sites of late, so when NetNames

announced an agreement with CompuServe, closely followed by MSN about

loading Domain Name Registration tools on to their respective sites, Wired

did a specific story about how Domain Names would be the next revolutionary

'portal enabling tool'. Initially the two stories were unrelated, but when

we realised that there was an 'angle' to be had, we moved the story in that

direction. Whilst luck has a certain element to play, a lot of good stories

come about because there is a moment in time where everyone is talking about

the same thing, but they are looking for a unique angle. We provided that

angle when the time was right - but it probably won't happen again.


Steve


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> -----Original Message-----

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From: owner-uk-netmarketing-digestchinwag [dot] com

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[owner-uk-netmarketing-digestchinwag [dot] com (mailto:owner-uk-netmarketing-digestchinwag [dot] com)]

> Sent: 18 August 1998 15:39

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To: uk-netmarketing-digestchinwag [dot] com

> Subject: UKNM Digest V1 #48

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> Of course often seemingly sound stories are overlooked however cleverly

> they are pitched. Some, though not all, journalists simply feel

> uncomfortable taking story after story from the same agency.

>

> Last year, when I was editing GE'97 at Online Magic the press couldn't get

> enough of us, and we were featured in around 50 separate

> articles. The same

> PR company couldn't raise any interest outside a very limited section of

> the trade/Internet press when we launched a public consultation for the

> government's Freedom of Information White Paper six months later.

> Personally I think we had a lot of unmerited coverage in the first

> instance, and were unlucky in the second.

>

> There is of course the further question of whether offline coverage is of

> much value to web sites or other online ventures.

>


> Alex Balfour

> Politics producer & Search Engine/ Webguide writer, The Guardian:

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> http://www.guardian.co.uk

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