I’ve been thinking about Edelman and the “Walmarting Across America” blog again, in part because the topic came up — not surprisingly — at the Third Tuesday PR blogger event I was at last night (more info here) and also because I came across a post at John Koetsier’s blog BizHack in which he went [...]
At last, a response has come from both Steve Rubel of Micropersuasion and Richard Edelman, head of the firm Steve works for, on the Wal-Mart blogger dustup (for some background, see my previous posts here and here).
On his blog, Steve says that he couldn’t blog about it because he wasn’t involved in the file, [...]
I wonder if Richard Edelman — or someone at the PR firm — is regretting that they ever decided to take Wal-Mart on as a client. It wasn’t that long ago that the company started a blogosphere flame war because it provided PR material to bloggers as part of a campaign to win the hearts [...]
There’s been plenty of talk in the blogosphere about a New York Times story involving blogs and Wal-Mart. It seems a PR person with Edelman - the “Me2 Revolution” firm that recently hired Steve Rubel - sent out some emails discussing Wal-Mart’s position on various things, and some bloggers repeated parts of those emails without [...]