Comments on: Viral Marketing = Virulent Tactics? http://tomtoronto.ca/9/ Tom "Toronto" Reidt on Public Relations and other rambling. Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:56:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: TomToronto http://tomtoronto.ca/9/comment-page-1/#comment-15 TomToronto Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:58:05 +0000 http://tomtoronto.ca/?p=8#comment-15 Very true, the web and social media are really a grey area when trying to distinguish PR and marketing, especially if the PR client is commercial. Plus this sphere is still very new, both fields are rushing in to utilize it, and everybody ends using similar methods. Except for some of us, like Dan Ackerman Greenberg! It's a very exciting time for PR, no question! Thanks for the post Luke. Very true, the web and social media are really a grey area when trying to distinguish PR and marketing, especially if the PR client is commercial. Plus this sphere is still very new, both fields are rushing in to utilize it, and everybody ends using similar methods. Except for some of us, like Dan Ackerman Greenberg! It’s a very exciting time for PR, no question! Thanks for the post Luke.

]]> By: Luke http://tomtoronto.ca/9/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Luke Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:27:27 +0000 http://tomtoronto.ca/?p=8#comment-14 Great post. I think its hard for that division between PR and marketing to hold in social media though. The connections and 'relations' ARE the medium in which marketers (and everyone else) lurk. Looking at lonlelygirl15 and even sites like suicide girls, the blur between still caring after being marketed to and building relationships becomes more blurred. interesting times to start up in PR indeed! Great post.

I think its hard for that division between PR and marketing to hold in social media though. The connections and ‘relations’ ARE the medium in which marketers (and everyone else) lurk. Looking at lonlelygirl15 and even sites like suicide girls, the blur between still caring after being marketed to and building relationships becomes more blurred. interesting times to start up in PR indeed!

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