Day 17

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The investors speak.

Ahh, so as long as the stench stays contained to the boardroom the investors were willing to ignore it, but as the stench seeps out from under the boardroom door and into the CEO’s office the shareholders decided to get out. Interesting.

HP’s CEO is holding a press conference in about an hour. I wonder if he can clear the air and make that smell move somewhere else?

At the Ragan PR conference the HP problem is a topic of conversation here. I just sat through a session of “PR winners and sinners.” Sinners being folks like Vice President Dick Cheney who shot his friend in the face while hunting. Winners being people like Kyra Phillips, CNN anchor who accidentally took a microphone into the bathroom and then went on David Letterman to redeem herself.

Anyway, I’m getting bored by talking about HP. I’d rather link to Beet.TV who has discovered that Google Video now has a capability for captioning. That’s cool.

I’m off to Chicago’s airport to catch a flight back to California. Stay out of trouble and, remember, no matter how flawed your life is or how sucky a job you have it still is far better than being an HP PR member right now.

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11 thoughts on “Day 17”

  1. I’m disappointed, Robert. No mention of Dunn getting inducted into the Bay Area Business Hall of “Fame”, and even making fun of her situation during her acceptance speech?

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  2. I’m disappointed, Robert. No mention of Dunn getting inducted into the Bay Area Business Hall of “Fame”, and even making fun of her situation during her acceptance speech?

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  3. Rob: I didn’t even see all that until you mentioned it because that news was obscurred by the other news of the day regarding HP.

    http://news.com.com/Dunns+Hall+of+Fame+moment/2010-1014_3-6117948.html has a good report.

    More here: http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&ncl=http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/09/21/dunn/index.php has more.

    I don’t know what to say other than to link to that.

    One thing though. The fact that she’s still laughing about her situation demonstrates that she isn’t getting good PR advice. Everytime I hear her speak on CNBC it makes me think that she just doesn’t get how serious this stuff is.

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  4. Rob: I didn’t even see all that until you mentioned it because that news was obscurred by the other news of the day regarding HP.

    http://news.com.com/Dunns+Hall+of+Fame+moment/2010-1014_3-6117948.html has a good report.

    More here: http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&ncl=http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/09/21/dunn/index.php has more.

    I don’t know what to say other than to link to that.

    One thing though. The fact that she’s still laughing about her situation demonstrates that she isn’t getting good PR advice. Everytime I hear her speak on CNBC it makes me think that she just doesn’t get how serious this stuff is.

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  5. Scoble, I would like to point out that legitimate hunting accidents happen. If you would like to criticize Mr. Cheney, perhaps you should criticize how he miss-handled the incident, rather than bashing him because he accidentally shot his friend in the face. It would be a sin if he had done it on purpose.

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  6. Scoble, I would like to point out that legitimate hunting accidents happen. If you would like to criticize Mr. Cheney, perhaps you should criticize how he miss-handled the incident, rather than bashing him because he accidentally shot his friend in the face. It would be a sin if he had done it on purpose.

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  7. RE Kyra

    Surely it was the desk op whe didn’t fade her out when she went of air that screwed up.

    And I’me not sure if an acident is bad pr ok if he made a habit of shooting his hunting partners.

    The think MS Dunn neds to take some advice from Gerald Ratner about making jokes

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  8. RE Kyra

    Surely it was the desk op whe didn’t fade her out when she went of air that screwed up.

    And I’me not sure if an acident is bad pr ok if he made a habit of shooting his hunting partners.

    The think MS Dunn neds to take some advice from Gerald Ratner about making jokes

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