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Competition is Good

Because I'm all about radical translucency, I'll be the first to admit that I have a bit of a competitive streak, mostly kept in check. But it's good competition, the kind that I think makes for better/stronger/faster/smarter results. There's the bad competition, of course, the kind where you want to win by making someone weaker, and the good kind, where you work to win by making yourself stronger. I tend to favor the former.

With that as introduction, it turns out that PR Week is having a 10th year anniversary celebration, and is doing a contest to determine the best PR blog. Since Vallewywag recently dubbed me an "uberflack" PR Week decided Glass House needed to be included in the competition. Single elimination, head to head competition, one blog against another. First round I'm up against Mark Rose of PRBlogNews. Now, I'm all about fair competition, so click on through to Mark's site and look around. I'll even provide Mark's rationale for voting for PRBlogNews:

Why vote PRBlogNews?

Okay, I am a sporadic blogger, prone to fits of inspiration, long bouts of malaise, and I don’t do the incessant link-love cirle jerk thing necessary to pump up the social media ratings. I am not even a fan of social media -  I would rather eat a three day old hot dog out of a street cart than go to the Social Media Club.

So, we have a bit of an attitude. This is New York and it’s required. No excuses. We also break the BIG stories, like PR & LSD - a long strange happy tradition and Don’t eat the brown acid. Look around the cubicles of Waggener Edstrom these days and you might notice naked account executives tripping and writing far out PR programs thanks to PRBlogNews.

Fair enough commentary sans the naked bit, and I'm sure that Mark will also link to Glass House so his readers can get perspective. Whoops, maybe not.

Anyway, I started blogging because I was interested in the impact greater transparency was having on the business of business and the business of communication. I keep blogging because I'm passionate about the art of communications and finding ways to innovate with that art.

And remember I like to win. And also note bullet number two. Then click here and vote for Glass House.

Published Tuesday, August 05, 2008 10:05 PM by FrankShaw

Comments

 

Mark Rose said:

So you have the early lead. Don't get too comfortable. It ain't over till it's over.

August 6, 2008 1:22 PM
 

FrankShaw said:

marathon not sprint.

August 6, 2008 1:46 PM
 

joe said:

Congrats on the blog competition.  I work at Peppercom and our co-founder, Ed Moed, is in the blogger competition as well with PR Week.  

Ed wrote a post today on building more of a community around some of the thought leaders in our industry and addressing some pivotal issues we're all facing. In his post today, Ed opted to find some way to start that conversation by looking at the timely issues surrounding China's actions in preparing for the Olympics as a great example of the increasing importance of ethical behavior in a more transparent digital world.

We're hoping this is a way to move the conversation further toward a collaborative model and making it into more than just the fun contest it started as with PR Week. We don't have it all prescribed as to exactly how that process would happen, but we think it would be great for us to think about it as an industry and for the bloggers in this competition who are interested to perhaps help lead the charge.

Let us know what you think...

August 6, 2008 2:12 PM
 

FrankShaw said:

It's always good to have dialogue!

August 7, 2008 4:26 PM

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