Wait a minute, Ray, I asked you what you would have done - not what you think UCD did wrong. So, in the situation where a valuable employee is accused in the newspaper of having done something improper, "for starters," you'd put press releases on your organization's web site?
Not sure how this would get to the root of the problem or satisfy the conflicting demands of diverse constituencies. What would you do after posting the press releases? Melani Lamond In a message dated 6/17/07 10:35:13 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN writes: > >> I think what sharreiff was getting at, above, is that there > >> are ways for an organization to behave responsibly, > >> publicly, as an organization, and when it doesn't, the > >> person in charge is most responsible, ultimately responsible. > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > So, Ray, what would you have done, to "behave responsibly?" I'm > > not asking you what you think Lewis did or didn't do; I'm asking, > > what would YOU have done? Specifically, that is - answering "I > > would have behaved responsibly" won't give us any practical > > suggestions. > > > > well, for starters, I would have published both ucd > statements (what we've been calling press releases) on ucd's > website, as ucd publications (what other available ucd > published venues would logically do? they're between issues > of their newsletter, right?) > > I pointed this out earlier, with the first press release: > ucd must make its statements publicly available, must own > them, outright and wholly, and not merely rely on having > them read aloud at different times at different community > meetings or being quoted in whole or in part--or ignored > entirely--by news editors, or being published as direct > quotations given during a conversation. I guess that's what > I mean by behaving responsibly: taking responsibility, > taking ownership. > > right now we have a situation where ucd appears not to be > communicating while in fact it is allowing its statements to > be selectively made public. they have confused publicity > with advertising -- while mishandling both. > > I'll stop there for now. (I'm not being paid to do someone > else's job! ;-)) > Melani Lamond, Associate Broker Urban & Bye, Realtor 3529 Lancaster Ave. Philadelphia, PA 19104 cell phone 215-356-7266 office phone 215-222-4800, ext. 113 office fax 215-222-1101 2006 recipient of the Greater Philadelphia Association of Realtors awards: - Diamond award for over $8 million in sales, and ALL SIX of the West Philadelphia awards: - Top Lister - Top Seller - Top Overall Combined Volume - Top Listing Units by Area - Top Selling Units by Area - Top Overall Combined Units by Area ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.
