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Re: I was just thinking

Jonathan Nguyen — Mon, 15 Jul 2013 04:01:44 -0000

Testing

Re: My client wants me to increase their Facebook fans by 40 per cent next year

Jonathan Nguyen — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 05:05:22 -0000

Thanks Kristin! Look out for a mash up video of David Ogilvy soon!

Re: who are we kidding? elections are about ideology not policies

Jonathan Nguyen — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 07:40:02 -0000

Thanks Emanuel for your thoughtful response. I am an optimist, and the optimist in me sees that even since the last Howard election public opinion has started to turn against the race card used in elections. Unfortunately, Tony Abbott has not.

Re: who are we kidding? elections are about ideology not policies

Jonathan Nguyen — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 23:57:54 -0000

Thanks Frances. I guess the Twittersphere is right, you are lovely! :)

Re: The Red Chair Series, an interview with Sarah Cruickshank

Jonathan Nguyen — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 03:26:47 -0000

Smart and insightful as always Sarah.

Re: electricians should advertise in the yellow pages

Jonathan Nguyen — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 08:29:08 -0000

Hehehe, but no one spotted the most fundamental flaw in my argument! No phone? No calling the electrician! :)

Re: can radian6 be used to prevent suicides and murders?

Jonathan Nguyen — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:52:29 -0000

Hi Alison
I suspect it's one of those areas where there will be no easy answer. I also think it's gong to be one of those areas where there will be no one rule. So for example, on a Forum it might not be appropriate to intervene, but what if it was a Facebook status update? Would one of your friends be totally justified in calling the police to your house? What about your blog?

It's a tough call, but it it's good that people like yourself are wanting to explore it. For it me it was an interesting concept to explore, but I'm not a mental health professional. It would be interesting to get that viewpoint as well.

Thanks for commenting!

Re: Sam North and Brian Giesen take second place in the Ogilvy Digital Influence Essay Writing Competition

Jonathan Nguyen — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:58:24 -0000

I love it guys. Typical Sam North style... I wonder if there will be an @SamNorth soon. ;)

Re: always the critic

Jonathan Nguyen — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 03:47:02 -0000

Those in glass houses need to throw stones?

Re: Howorth adds new talent for 2010

Jonathan Nguyen — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:25:40 -0000

Congratulations all!

Re: why men shouldn’t write advice columns

Jonathan Nguyen — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:40:50 -0000

haha! That's fantastic! There's a few more in there as well. Thanks for that!

Re: end the membership card madness!

Jonathan Nguyen — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:36:35 -0000

damn straight, that's a great idea! the only problem would be in five years time, i see myself blogging "end the iphone app madness!"

Re: end the membership card madness!

Jonathan Nguyen — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:07:49 -0000

...or buy on ebay! the most annoying ones are where you NEED to have a a plastic card to do business with them. even hoyts made me get a damn card. hoyts! i just want to rot my brain for 90 minutes with meaningless trash! why do i need a card?!

Re: can radian6 be used to prevent suicides and murders?

Jonathan Nguyen — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:33:42 -0000

Hi Sarah, Radian6 saw my post and made an offer to help. Let's have a chat about this offline. I'll shoot you through an email.

Re: Inquisitr D: a step on our long march to news site

Jonathan Nguyen — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:19:55 -0000

Congrats dude, as someone who has been reading inquistr for some time now it's great to see the evolution and success! Hope you have many more to come!

Re: Can Radian6 be used to prevent suicides and murders?

Jonathan Nguyen — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 07:08:05 -0000

Hi Nigel

Absolutely. There are multiple issues even over and above the issues you have raised, but it's not impossible. As with all these things there's a point when the issues of implementation outweigh the issues of not implementing.

It's worth putting the idea out there though because it might actually resonate with someone who is looking for a solution.

Re: citizen journalism is not journalism

Jonathan Nguyen — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:20:04 -0000

Hi Paul, it's good to see people are passionate about this topic.

If I may paraphrase, the crux of your argument is that:

Premise 1: TV news lies, and they all tell the lie in ten or two different ways.
Premise 2: If it's on YouTube it must be true
Conclusion: Actually I'm unclear of your conclusion.

Although I believe both your premises are somewhat generalised, it heartens me to know that although our viewpoints differ there are still people who are passionate about news and current affairs. Thanks for taking the time to write your thoughts.

Re: bad for journalism, terrible for pr

Jonathan Nguyen — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:26:04 -0000

Ok it's not scientific by here's an experiment. Go to the front page of www.smh.com.au and www.news.com.au and count the negative vs positive stories. Or even more telling count the negative and positive stories with just the top half of the screen that is viewable without scrolling. Which stories prevail?

On you second point I partially agree with you. Media relations is only a fraction of the practice of PR. There are the boundary spanning and trusted advisor roles that we play. In this instance though I am referring to the media relations aspect of our role.

Where I differ though is that I don't believe we are better and I don't believe that the world needs more PR people, because what we do, our craft can be distorted and is not always used for good.

In Utopia, you would not need journalists because all companies would be good and so would all governments. Strategic PR is constantly working to build relationships. In Utopia world people don't have self interests.

We don't live in Utopia though and it still needs to balance. That's why we still have the institutions above.

Re: Invitation: Brits Abroad – calling all Sydney Poms!

Jonathan Nguyen — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:59:45 -0000

This looks like it will be fun! Good luck guv'ner.

Re: Mother-Ruckus: Five reasons mums are the real rock stars of part time work

Jonathan Nguyen — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:44:57 -0000

Indeed Carla, that explains the tornado of activity when you fly in!

Re: The power of social media… chk-chk BOOM!

Jonathan Nguyen — Fri, 22 May 2009 03:28:16 -0000

chk chk BOOM!

She's definitely marketable. I wonder how long the fame will last in this instance.

Re: there will never be an end to print

Jonathan Nguyen — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 06:59:09 -0000

Actually I haven't seen an Amazon Kindle, and there's my point. Amazon Kindle exists in the US. Nowhere else. When will it arrive here in Australia? I don't know. When will it arrive in Asia? Africa? Mauritius? It's a dangerous assumption to believe that because such technologies exist in one place, it exists everywhere. There is still a place for print.

The second part of that is there are some people like my friend Pascale, that given a choice will still take the newspaper/novel. They like paper, they like the feel of a novel. They like being able to dog ear books, scribble on the pages and take notes. They want to be able to read a book on their camping holiday an not have to worry about whether the book will go flat.

So I take your point that solutions exist, but can you say that the world over every person will want to consume their media the same way you do? So where there is demand, there will be supply.

Re: Always be careful when grabbing images from Google

Jonathan Nguyen — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 06:32:56 -0000

Adds a whole new meaning to Kreme.

Re: A Proposal to Filter Christian Churches

Jonathan Nguyen — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 05:10:05 -0000

Dunc, love the angle. I need to write a letter to censor the works of Shakespeare, the poems of Wilfred Owen and we definitely need to do something about the ideology of Ned Kelly and Waltzing Matilda. Ned was bank robber who killed people and old Walt stole sheep and committed suicide.

Re: citizen journalism is not: melbourne airport example

Jonathan Nguyen — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 01:32:56 -0000

Actually I did, these are @JonoH's tweets:

Breaking!!! Plane on fire @ melboune airport about 21 hours ago from TweetDeck
Qantas 767 on fire @ Melbourne airport... details to come!!! about 21 hours ago from TweetDeck
etc...
Until this message when quizzed by @nickhodge a few hours later.
I had a mate scheduled on a Mel-Syd flight who had alerted me 2 the situation. i was not on scene, please just wait 4 QF/media to announce. about 19 hours ago from TweetDeck

Look, I'm glad that in the end the facts did get checked, but the bit that concerns me is this stuff spreading BEFORE the verification.

I will update the post shortly to reflect this. Thanks for stopping by with your comments.