I think you’ve missed the key point.

Bloggers are private individuals.

We do not get paid to write about products or services (ok some do, but most don’t).

As I already pointed out to you, if you’d approached me properly I wouldn’t have been so annoyed.

Regards

Michele

The rules of old media information dissemination, where most journos are listed in the Irish Media Contacts Directory (http://www.mediacontact.ie), and/or have their addresses published at the end of their copy, and therefore de facto opt in to bulk email, clearly don’t apply to bloggers, and are in any case less effective than proper courtesy and relationship management. Sadly this is the time-consuming bit. It’s why our humble press office (which sends out probably in the order of 200 or 300 press releases a year) falls back to bulk email, which works okay with political correspondents, but evidently awfully with tech bloggers.

I’ve read previous posts on this subject by Damien and others, but clearly didn’t take much in. I will endeavour to do better!

Knuckles suitably rapped.

Michele

Image by just.Luc via FlickrI hate spam. It’s a tactic used by lazy uninventive scumbags.I don’t like politicians that much and consider most of them to be seriously overpaid.So when I got hit with a spam from the Irish Green……