Comments on: Good Karma: Peter Shankman’s ‘Help a Reporter’

By: Bridgette Mongeon

Bridgette Mongeon — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:50:16 +0000

I LOVE HARO! I read your article on (HARO) Help A Reporter Out. I created a video on the subject and I thought I would send it. Here is a blip.tv rendition http://www.creativeendeavors.blip.tv/#1123448 or a You Tube version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23biQbZjWBk that you can share with your readers and even embed in your blog. Each give you code to do just that. GO HARO! Bridgette Mongeon

By: Sally Whittle

Sally Whittle — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:37:42 +0000

Hi
You might be interested to know the same thing has been happening in the UK.
We launched a Facebook group for case histories which has now spawned a blog, Getting Ink Requests (http://gettingink.typepad.com/journos)
Having been contacted by PR agencies who tell me how expensive Profnet and Response Source (the UK’s biggest media request service) are,I can see why the sites here and in the UK have been received so well.
As a reporter, I don’t care who sends out my request for sources – I just care that someone responds with relevant information!

By: mike ashworth

mike ashworth — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:14:06 +0000

what a marvellous idea! i’ll go and check this out
Mike Ashworth
Business Coaching and Consultancy
Brighton and Hove, Sussex, UK

By: Dusan

Dusan — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:36:30 +0000

Interesting. A programmer with the same idea would most probably build some kind of an automated system that would do all the work (and not take 15 minutes of his daily time).
Yet it seems that human factor here is very important. Useful example of its importance. Thxs Ann.