Forward Podcast 31 :: Managing Your Voice in the Office and Beyond
Forward Podcast 31 responds to some recent hot debate in the PR blogging space about just how vocal young PR professionals should be, both in the office and offline.
This episode is an interview with Edelman’s Phil Gomes in response to his post about the importance of young PR professionals ‘managing up‘ - talking up to their boss or colleagues when they feel they have a deeper understanding of an issue. Paull and Phil also discuss the debate that has recently sprung up about whether inexperienced communicators could be doing their reputations harm by speaking up online.
The podcast ends with some brilliant thoughts from young PR professional and blogger Kait Swanson. Her thoughts really put Phil’s theory into practice from the point of view of a young communicator. She’s clearly a fair bit smarter than Paull and Luke, so hopefully she’ll start commenting regularly. Of course, you can join the conversation at any time by leaving a comment or sending us an audio file to include.
This episode is the second time Phil has appeared on the Forward Podcast, he was previously the subject of episode #6 on the dark art of podcasting. Paull has a post at his personal blog summarizing the numerous mentions of this debate so far, there are some excellent thoughts across the blogosphere that can teach a lot to young professionals.
In other housekeeping news, Forward will be the subject of a case study at the Connect: PR and Social Media Conference at the University of Georgia, Athens, on October 19-20. The conference is intended to educate public relations professionals and educators on social media and Paull Young will be presenting on the mission and history of Forward as an example of how social media can be used to attempt to help both young communicators and the industry as a whole move Forward.
We strongly suggest you take the time to read through the entire debate - there’s a post covering the conversation from start to finish at Paull’s blog. The discussion to date on this topic, from both experienced and inexperienced viewpoints alike, is really a case study of the power of social media to move our industry forward.
Technorati Tags: Phil Gomes, managing up, decision support, reputation management, pr blogging, young pr blogging, marketing blogging
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The podcast is always good but this week it’s great — timely, relevant, and informative. Keep it up, young, forward-moving PRs.
Comment by karen — September 17, 2007 @ 6:00 pm
[…] Phil Gomes and I had a good chat about this on the Forward Podcast, an episode Kait Swanson finished up with a great comment. […]
Pingback by Young PR » Blog Archive » Young PR’s - Know Your Place — September 18, 2007 @ 10:36 pm
[…] Phil Gomes of Edelman talked about Managing Up on his Blogservations site. And, although he didn’t elaborate on what he means exactly by the term ‘Managing Up’, it became clearer in an interview he did with the Forward Podcast. The podcast interviewer, Paull Young, has been keeping an ongoing log of the conversation on the Young PR blog. […]
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P.S. I knew you couldn’t help yourself, Bill…”Watch the spelling, grammar, punctuation…” It’s the perfect sentence for ellipses. I can still see your face after this sentence!
Must’ve worked!
Comment by Kait — October 3, 2007 @ 4:12 pm
[…] 15, 2008 Listen to podcasts to learn about podcasting Posted by teachingpr under Uncategorized | Tags: Donna Papacosta, Forward, podcasting, Trafcom News| Donna Papacosta, our guest speaker on Tuesday, emphasized to me that it’s important for you to listen to a couple of podcasts before her lecture. Here are two to get you started (also on the class schedule I handed out last week): Forward podcast — an especially pertinent episode is this one on how vocal young people should be at their first jobs; and Donna’s own Trafcom News — this episode is on learning about podcasting, so it will give you a heads up on some of what she may discuss in class. Also, download this Podcasting Checklist and bring it to class. See you Tuesday! […]
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