My Life With IT

While I haven’t been invited to a lot of events by various PR agencies trying to reach out to bloggers, I have come across bloggers who have been turned off by the acts of the agents in their attempts to reach out to bloggers.

I will try not to repeat what others have written but if the agents still don’t understand on how to use the social media to reach out, then it’s their problem. There are 10 easy ways to piss off any blogger. The most common thing is that the contents are stolen from a blog post without any credits. This content thief is often hunted down and all the intimate details being exposed on the web. Nobody wants to be like that Edison Chen or Tammy from NYP. Totally exposed with no hiding places.

There are things to make a blogger happy and they aren’t that difficult since the expectations are often displayed at the site for all to see. When invitations are often sent out late such as just 1 day or worse, 3 hours before the actual event, no one will want to go since they can’t find anyone at the last minute to attend the event together.

My personal take even if I am not some A-lister being invited to events all over the world:

• Last minute invites to attend events; the events can be anything. I did get myself invited at the last minute but the event coordinator was kind enough to let me in. That is a different case.
• Getting invited to view some gadget with the idea that the invitees will be playing with the gadget but ultimately, no such thing happened.
• By not replying to questions asked in emails or Facebook walls.
• Expecting only positive posts about the event or product. This is a case of being too ideal.

As bloggers, we have control over what we want to be displayed in our blogs since the PR don’t pay for our hosting and domain fees. I don’t even take paid posts that insist on positive reviews since it isn’t realistic. I take on writing gigs that just want to spread awareness if possible.