{"id":682,"date":"2007-04-19T13:06:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-19T17:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjon.s423.sureserver.com\/?p=682"},"modified":"2007-04-19T13:06:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-19T17:06:00","slug":"bloggers-brunched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=682","title":{"rendered":"Bloggers Brunched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I managed to present my little talk at the Motor Industry Public Affairs Association. About 28 folks there split 50\/50 so no sex bias in PR. It was well received although I don&#8217;t think many of those present were totally convinced! <a href=\"http:\/\/greenbanana.wordpress.com\/\">Heather<\/a> had set up the meeting well, initially in a horseshoe format then dividing up into 3  breakout groups. I was amazed at just how blinkered corporate types are. It really hit home to me all that De Bono stuff about thinking outside of the box. I began to think that PR stands for press relations rather than public relations. For most of the people present its all about controlling the message.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/images\/Heather%27s-blogging-event-017-766883.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/images\/Heather%27s-blogging-event-017-766859.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>However, one person who was totally convinced is my childhood hero, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paddy_hopkirk\">Paddy Hopkirk<\/a>  who was in my breakout group. Amazing happy friendly fellow who was telling me a story about his old friend <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Lutz\">Bob Lutz <\/a>who was considered very mad for daring to ask common people at autoshows what they thought of his cars. Oh for those that don&#8217;t know Bob is   General Motors Vice Chairman and was one of the first CEO&#8217;s to <a href=\"http:\/\/fastlane.gmblogs.com\/\">blog<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Here  is Paddy taking a mini for a spin&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"350\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3AQCFoWSXEU\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><div id=\"adblock-frame-n20\" adblockframe=\"true\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: visible; width: 425px; display: block;\">\n<div style=\"overflow: visible; height: 0px; width: 100%;\" align=\"right\">\n<div  style=\"border-style: ridge ridge none; border-width: 2px 2px 0px; padding: 1px; overflow: visible; vertical-align: bottom; -moz-border-radius-topleft: 10px; -moz-border-radius-topright: 10px; opacity: 0.5; top: -19px; left: -5px; z-index: 900; width: 48px; height: 15px; cursor: pointer;color:white;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 140%; text-align: right; text-decoration: none; opacity: 1.5;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-serif;font-size:12;color:black;\"   >Adblock<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><embed adblockframename=\"adblock-frame-n20\" adblockframedobject2=\"true\" adblockframedobject=\"true\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3AQCFoWSXEU\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" height=\"350\" width=\"425\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I managed to present my little talk at the Motor Industry Public Affairs Association. 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