Comments on: XPRL Meeting in London http://www.socialmediaclub.org/2006/09/15/xprl-meeting-in-london/ A community for the champions of Social Media and those seeking to learn Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:57:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: The present and near future of the press release | Tech PR Gems http://www.socialmediaclub.org/2006/09/15/xprl-meeting-in-london/#comment-144971 The present and near future of the press release | Tech PR Gems Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:08:50 +0000 http://www.socialmediaclub.org/2006/09/15/xprl-meeting-in-london/#comment-144971 [...] also saw a spark in the eyes of the XPRL beast. XPRL was an effort similar to the social media press release that was started way back in 2001. [...] [...] also saw a spark in the eyes of the XPRL beast. XPRL was an effort similar to the social media press release that was started way back in 2001. [...]

]]> By: Mike Granatt http://www.socialmediaclub.org/2006/09/15/xprl-meeting-in-london/#comment-182 Mike Granatt Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:21:56 +0000 http://www.socialmediaclub.org/2006/09/15/xprl-meeting-in-london/#comment-182 Thanks, Chris, for writing the minutes - it was good to see you. We already have further buy-in for the new initiative. The Chartered Institute of Public Relations Practitioners has already agreed to provide the venue for the first "client seminar" at their new headquarters in St James's London. I was also interested in your take on our Data Protection Act. The point of the Act is to outlaw any use of personal information for a purpose for which it was not collected. For example, say you have a database of customer details. Unless you have a customer's specific permission, you cannot pass on that information to anyone for any purpose. It also forces any organisation holding personal data to reveal what it holds to the person concerned on request for a reasonable fee. An organisation holding personal data has to register with the Information Commissioner, who is a public official. But this is to ensure enforcement. The Registrar has no right of access to the database. There are some obvious exceptions for databases held for national security purposes, but if you want to know more about data protection and Freedom of Information in the UK, check the Commissioner's website at: www.ico.gov.uk. (He also enforces the FoI Act) Interestingly, he's pressing the Government for a a two year prison term for people who use personal information illegally. Thanks again for taking an interest in XPRL. Mike Thanks, Chris, for writing the minutes - it was good to see you. We already have further buy-in for the new initiative. The Chartered Institute of Public Relations Practitioners has already agreed to provide the venue for the first “client seminar” at their new headquarters in St James’s London.
I was also interested in your take on our Data Protection Act. The point of the Act is to outlaw any use of personal information for a purpose for which it was not collected. For example, say you have a database of customer details. Unless you have a customer’s specific permission, you cannot pass on that information to anyone for any purpose. It also forces any organisation holding personal data to reveal what it holds to the person concerned on request for a reasonable fee. An organisation holding personal data has to register with the Information Commissioner, who is a public official. But this is to ensure enforcement. The Registrar has no right of access to the database. There are some obvious exceptions for databases held for national security purposes, but if you want to know more about data protection and Freedom of Information in the UK, check the Commissioner’s website at: http://www.ico.gov.uk. (He also enforces the FoI Act) Interestingly, he’s pressing the Government for a a two year prison term for people who use personal information illegally.
Thanks again for taking an interest in XPRL.
Mike

]]> By: David Phillips http://www.socialmediaclub.org/2006/09/15/xprl-meeting-in-london/#comment-167 David Phillips Sat, 16 Sep 2006 09:40:02 +0000 http://www.socialmediaclub.org/2006/09/15/xprl-meeting-in-london/#comment-167 t the risk of this turning into a mutual admiration society, I have to say it has been a great pleasure to be your company this week. Flattery, of course, will get you every where and the idea of a few pints versus a few beers is a nicety, I note not lost on an American in Soho. First and foremost thank you for an excellent minute of the XPRL meeting. I thought it was a British trait to be reserved and it is true we tend to be reserved about contributing to content in social media. This was the first time I had used Writely in this way. Beside the complements about the content, to me this is how people of good faith can make a greater contribution to the whole. Don't be shy in the social space is the best I can offer. Don't you just love it when someone adds and insightful comment to a blog post. Now we are being introduced to wikis and other social media and can make a difference with both knowledge and insights - anacademic's dream, a democrat's lifeblood, a managers competitive edge. It is a truism that XPRL is an opportunity to have an embedded structure to aid people who provide tools and services to PR people. It is an opportunity toalow practitioners to get information in a form that can address all domains of PR practice whether the platform for communication is print, web, 3/4G (mobile phones, texts and video), digital broadcast (most radio and TV), gaming and other emerging communication capabilities. It offers further opportunities in areas of management and collaboration. Today the platforms are host so many channels for communication from newspapers, magazines and newsletters to the web, social media and virtual communications including podcasts and video. For most practitioners XPRL is so far out of sight because its makes functioning software work, that it is of no apparent consequence. Your support and effort to spread the word is thereby all the more welcome. raising consciousness is so important. XPRL's needs to become the background drumbeat to the tools we use in our work. Without it, PR can have no rythm and it is forced to serve the pounding timpani of others while our work is served up in musical phrases, each a delight but together, a cacophony lacking harmony and coherence. In an Internet mediated era, the output becomes ever more raucous. Its a good time to get rhythm. t the risk of this turning into a mutual admiration society, I have to say it has been a great pleasure to be your company this week. Flattery, of course, will get you every where and the idea of a few pints versus a few beers is a nicety, I note not lost on an American in Soho.

First and foremost thank you for an excellent minute of the XPRL meeting.

I thought it was a British trait to be reserved and it is true we tend to be reserved about contributing to content in social media. This was the first time I had used Writely in this way. Beside the complements about the content, to me this is how people of good faith can make a greater contribution to the whole. Don’t be shy in the social space is the best I can offer. Don’t you just love it when someone adds and insightful comment to a blog post. Now we are being introduced to wikis and other social media and can make a difference with both knowledge and insights - anacademic’s dream, a democrat’s lifeblood, a managers competitive edge.

It is a truism that XPRL is an opportunity to have an embedded structure to aid people who provide tools and services to PR people. It is an opportunity toalow practitioners to get information in a form that can address all domains of PR practice whether the platform for communication is print, web, 3/4G (mobile phones, texts and video), digital broadcast (most radio and TV), gaming and other emerging communication capabilities. It offers further opportunities in areas of management and collaboration. Today the platforms are host so many channels for communication from newspapers, magazines and newsletters to the web, social media and virtual communications including podcasts and video.

For most practitioners XPRL is so far out of sight because its makes functioning software work, that it is of no apparent consequence. Your support and effort to spread the word is thereby all the more welcome. raising consciousness is so important.

XPRL’s needs to become the background drumbeat to the tools we use in our work. Without it, PR can have no rythm and it is forced to serve the pounding timpani of others while our work is served up in musical phrases, each a delight but together, a cacophony lacking harmony and coherence. In an Internet mediated era, the output becomes ever more raucous.

Its a good time to get rhythm.

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