Response to the CIPR's social media consultation

Made it just in time but below is a pdf of my and my employer's response to the CIPR Social Media Guidelines consultation.

Download cipr.pdf (151.6K)

Apologies for the lack of interactivity.

I also asked Francis from the CIPR if he could let me know who else has responded but he said it wouldn't be fair to those who had as they weren't told their names would be given out. Fair enough, I suppose. But it didn't say anywhere they wouldn't be given out either and I'm game!

I also asked how many had responded but I got no reply.

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Comments

[Richard Bailey]

I responded, and ought to dig out my thoughts and share them.

I welcome the Green thinking on this: I also feel the CIPR is proposing to impose standards on social media that it doesn't attempt to apply to old media (eg ghostwriting). Anyway much of it is unenforceable.

It's an odd world view: to see social media as a threat, when it's clearly a challenge, opportunity even, for the PR industry. Keep up the good work!