The Tetchy Emperor Part II

September 22, 2006 | 12 comments | permalink

David Brain - London

CIPR

Read the letter (PDF).

Following on from my recent video blog regarding Colin Farrington’s leader in Profile magazine about blogging and social media I have just received this letter via snail mail from Mr Farrington himself where he cheerfully depolys the sixth form debating tactic of mischaracterising the argument against him. Good to know that older members of the CIPR have their champion.

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  1. Trackback from A PR Guru's Musings - Stuart Bruce on September 22nd, 2006 :

    The tetchy chamberlain, part II

    David Brain, president and CEO of Edelman Europe, has just posted a copy of a snail mail letter (PDF) from Colin Farrington, director general of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations. David’s entitled his post ‘The Tetchy Emperor Part II’,

  2. Comment from Simon Collister on September 22nd, 2006 :

    Blimey! I don’t know where to start with this one.

    Colin claims the CIPR has taken the lead in ‘comparison to other professional bodies’. I suggest that an entirely separate group of forward-looking PR professionals (some members, some not)have taken this matter into their own hands with support from regional CIPR groups - not necessarily HQ. Plus the big debate - as your letter made out - is that the UK PR industry is at risk of falling behind other disciplines in the adoption of media.

    As for: “But there are many [blogs], including some from people who should be able to do much better given their level of expetise, which seem to me to be either pointless and/or unlikely to have anything but a negative effect on reputation.”

    Who do you think he has in mind? I think I know…

  3. Trackback from Simonsays on September 22nd, 2006 :

    Colin Farrington social media update

    David Brain has posted a copy of Colin Farrington’s reply to his original letter aired on the Edelman CEO’s Sixtysecondview vlog. I will leave David and others to air their views on Colin’s robust response! Stuart Bruce also covers the

  4. Comment from David Phillips on September 23rd, 2006 :

    This poses a problem for me. The track record of the CIPR so far is the Internet Commission of 2000 (which I chaired) and a good web site. Nothing else on line is of special note and yet it is aiming to offer advice to its members.

    This fills me with trepidation.

    The adjectives that come to mind include: Chauvinist, denial, xenophobic, elitist, imperialist.

    I will blog about this further.

  5. Pingback from Simon Wakeman - CIPR, Colin Farrington and social media on September 24th, 2006 :

    […] The discussion around the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) and the thoughts of Director-General Colin Farrington on social media continues.A few weeks back David Brain, President & CEO Edelman Europe, sent an open letter to Colin Farrington about the subject. On Friday David posted Colin’s response to his letter. This has since been picked up other practictioners in this space, including Stuart Bruce and Simon Collister. Stuart and Simon make some very pertinent points that I wholeheartedly agree with. […]

  6. Pingback from Simon Wakeman - Colin Farrington, CIPR and social media on September 26th, 2006 :

    […] A few weeks back David Brain, President & CEO Edelman Europe, sent an open letter to Colin Farrington about the subject. On Friday David posted Colin’s response to his letter. This has since been picked up other practictioners in this space, including Stuart Bruce and Simon Collister. Stuart and Simon make some very pertinent points that I wholeheartedly agree with. […]

  7. Pingback from Simon Wakeman - CIPR and a positive way forward for social media? on September 27th, 2006 :

    […] The issue of CIPR, blogging and Colin Farrington’s view on it has received much attention among the UK social media community over the past few weeks. It was covered in For Immediate Release #175 and by bloggers including David Brain, Stuart Bruce and Simon Collister (as well as here). […]

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