Axia PR
OCTOBER 20, 2021
Wikipedia can be a blessing for many people as they seek information and conduct research. Many companies ask their PR firm to write Wikipedia articles on their behalf. This is not an ethical practice. It can also be a frustration for organizations and companies who need to ensure their content is accurate.
MaccaPR
JULY 2, 2014
As PR and marketing professionals – and consumers – we often forget about the sheer power and influence that Wikipedia has on our daily lives. Wikipedia is a permanent part of our public culture. All jokes aside, Wikipedia does have a distinct influence on the business community. Wikipedia is just plain popular.
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Wadds Inc.
JANUARY 11, 2023
The shiny new toy is an ethical minefield. It’s a huge amount of data that includes books, websites, and Wikipedia. The first paragraph was factual and recognisable based on my Wikipedia entry. GPT-3 is trained on 45 terabytes of text data from a variety of datasets. A terabyte is approximately 85 million pages of text.
PR Breakfast Club
AUGUST 24, 2015
I’m surprised it’s taken me this long to write this post, but what actually inspired it was a comment by the fantastic Jason Mollica over on the book of face. 2) Stand up for what you believe in: Wikipedia edits, tasteless newsbait pitches, etc. We’ll all need to go ethics v. business at some point.
Stuart Bruce
FEBRUARY 21, 2015
You’ve got to write 150 words (a minimum of 50 under three different headings) for every CPD activity. But you can get five points for reading short best practice guides or even case studies and it takes me almost as long to think about and write the 150 words as it did to do the activity in the first place!
Waxing UnLyrical
NOVEMBER 23, 2010
Image: jbcurio via Flickr , Creative Commons For the few who don’t know or recall, an “ advertorial is an advertisement written in the form of an objective article, and presented in a printed publication – usually designed to look like a legitimate and independent news story,” according to Wikipedia. Its almost sad. Cheesier [.]
Flack's Revenge
NOVEMBER 28, 2018
It made me think of broader questions about PR ethics, which I’ve explored before here, and the state of communications today. Some may think “PR ethics” is an oxymoron. The industry has set some guidelines, as explained in this Wikipedia article , which includes PRSA’s take.
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