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politics

Using words to denigrate and isolate

by Lee Hopkins on September 5, 2008 · View Comments

in ethics,politics

G’day! Thanks for returning! There’s an interesting rhetoric going around Australia at the moment. It seems to have been imported from the US and the UK and has been growing in strength over the last decade and a half. Ever since Reaganomics and Thatcherite values came to fruition, there has been a growing sense within [...]

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Corporate blogging policies – the CNN fiasco continues

by Lee Hopkins on August 31, 2008 · View Comments

in PR,Second Life,Second Life & 3D virtual worlds,blogging,podcasting,politics,public speaking,tools,videoblog

Herewith, for your education and enlightenment, a cutting from CNN’s Social Media policy.

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PsyOps for SL?

by Lee Hopkins on June 4, 2008 · View Comments

in Second Life,Second Life & 3D virtual worlds,ethics,politics,tools

Courtesy of the ever-vigilant Stefan Didak: "The Pentagon is running an artificial intelligence program to see how people will react to propaganda and to government-inflicted terror. The program is called Sentient World Simulation: "U.S defense, intel and homeland security officials are constructing a parallel world, on a computer, which the agencies will use to test [...]

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Clippings – 30th May 2008

by Lee Hopkins on May 30, 2008 · View Comments

in PR,Second Life & 3D virtual worlds,clippings,marketing,micro-blogging,politics,tools

And if you don’t know who Dr Joe Vitale is, don’t worry. Someone else who does will get the information ahead of you anyway and learn how to effectively position theirs and their clients’ products and services in this new communication landscape before you have even figured if the Social Media world is relevant to your business

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Senior Communicators need Responsibility AND Authority

by Lee Hopkins on May 18, 2008 · View Comments

in PR,customer service,ethics,legal,marketing,politics,public speaking,tools

The most recent fiasco in the long-running saga of the trams in Adelaide (I won’t bore you with the details, save that they are too few and don’t seem to like rain) has brought me to the point of frustration. There seem to be two issues here: one of ‘Responsibility’ and one of ‘Authority’ (classic [...]

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Bob LeDrew and the sad tale of Ottawa’s Mayor

by Lee Hopkins on April 16, 2008 · View Comments

in PR,blogging,customer service,ethics,interviews,politics,public speaking

And to prove that ‘cluelessness’ is not just a corporate affliction, Ottawa’s Mayor Larry O’Brien has given us a spectacular example of how NOT to engage with the media. As Bob LeDrew comments, I’ve been interested in politics — as an observer — for a long time. And since buying a house here in Ottawa [...]

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