PR Week is reporting that Edelman is taking over the Microsoft Windows Vista account. That underscores that Edelman and Microsoft need even more transparency at this time into what they are going to do with bloggers.
This is a big deal and a big loss for Waggener Edstrom.
UPDATE: Mary Jo Foley wrote me and said that Edelman didn’t take the Windows Vista PR account from Waggener Edstrom, just the one-day launch in January. Sorry for the error.
Scobleizer 
I guess the husband and wife ‘installing and using vista’ blog idea isn’t gonna happen.
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I guess the husband and wife ‘installing and using vista’ blog idea isn’t gonna happen.
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This is a good thing, a very good thing. WaggEd sucks rocks.
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This is a good thing, a very good thing. WaggEd sucks rocks.
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Isn’t ‘taking over the Windows vista account’ a bit of an overstatement? The article says they are providing supplemental support for the consumer launch.
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Isn’t ‘taking over the Windows vista account’ a bit of an overstatement? The article says they are providing supplemental support for the consumer launch.
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DJ: yes, it was an overstatement. I corrected that now. Sorry.
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DJ: yes, it was an overstatement. I corrected that now. Sorry.
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you’ve got a typo in the ‘update’. should be “said that edelman”, not edstrom.
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you’ve got a typo in the ‘update’. should be “said that edelman”, not edstrom.
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Re: the constructive feedback about sucking rocks; if Finally is interested in being more specific I have some confidence that we can improve. 😉
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Re: the constructive feedback about sucking rocks; if Finally is interested in being more specific I have some confidence that we can improve. 😉
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Once again we see that Scoble is incable of reading beyond the first two sentences of an article. Again proving that accuracy is not a core tenant of blogging, it seems.
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Once again we see that Scoble is incable of reading beyond the first two sentences of an article. Again proving that accuracy is not a core tenant of blogging, it seems.
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LayZ: I wrote this before the article was totally posted. Thanks for noticing that.
MP: egg on face.
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LayZ: I wrote this before the article was totally posted. Thanks for noticing that.
MP: egg on face.
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@6… Frank, I appreciate your willingness to improve, and I have confidence that YOU have the ability…but your people on the street do not. My experience in working with WaggEd has been that the people interfacing with MSFT are WAYYY to junior and inexperienced. You spent 90% of the meeting trying to educate complete noobs as to the marketplace, product opportunity, etc. The second issue is internal MSFT in marketing not knowing really how to guide the process or even vet a decent campaign or marketing plan. (rant off, but IMHO MSFT just needs a marketing revamp, maybe the community approach is the best way to go).
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@6… Frank, I appreciate your willingness to improve, and I have confidence that YOU have the ability…but your people on the street do not. My experience in working with WaggEd has been that the people interfacing with MSFT are WAYYY to junior and inexperienced. You spent 90% of the meeting trying to educate complete noobs as to the marketplace, product opportunity, etc. The second issue is internal MSFT in marketing not knowing really how to guide the process or even vet a decent campaign or marketing plan. (rant off, but IMHO MSFT just needs a marketing revamp, maybe the community approach is the best way to go).
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If Edelman is in fact handling just the Vista launch, not taking over the account per se, then shouldn’t the headline of this article / blog posting also be changed to reflect that? Or are hits off the heading more important than total accuracy?
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If Edelman is in fact handling just the Vista launch, not taking over the account per se, then shouldn’t the headline of this article / blog posting also be changed to reflect that? Or are hits off the heading more important than total accuracy?
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All I can say is that my dealings with WaggEd team, mainly in relation to writing Vista and Office 2007 pieces for local (Australian) media outlets, have been quite positive…
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All I can say is that my dealings with WaggEd team, mainly in relation to writing Vista and Office 2007 pieces for local (Australian) media outlets, have been quite positive…
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Skip: >>Or are hits off the heading more important than total accuracy?
Not that at all. I just changed it. I totally missed the headline when I wrote the correction. Sorry.
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Skip: >>Or are hits off the heading more important than total accuracy?
Not that at all. I just changed it. I totally missed the headline when I wrote the correction. Sorry.
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I would encourage anyone who is feeling frustrated with the support or info they are getting from the agency to drop me a line. We’re not perfect, and I guarantee that we want to do better, both in general and when there is a problem.
My email is linked to from the blog: http://glasshouse.waggeneredstrom.com
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I would encourage anyone who is feeling frustrated with the support or info they are getting from the agency to drop me a line. We’re not perfect, and I guarantee that we want to do better, both in general and when there is a problem.
My email is linked to from the blog: http://glasshouse.waggeneredstrom.com
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Windows Vista Launch January 30 ’07 NYC
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Windows Vista Launch January 30 ’07 NYC
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@8 again proving the point that speed and being “first”– obviously in the interest of link-whoreing– is more important to you than accuracy. Is this the type of “journalism” you were taught at SJSU? I mean, afterall, bloggers are journalists, right?
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@8 again proving the point that speed and being “first”– obviously in the interest of link-whoreing– is more important to you than accuracy. Is this the type of “journalism” you were taught at SJSU? I mean, afterall, bloggers are journalists, right?
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