Comments on: PR Prof’s Blog gets her FIRED

By: Angela Jones

Angela Jones — Tue, 31 May 2005 17:25:40 +0000

As a former student of Ms. Liner at SMU and a PR rookie, I have to say that while she was a wonderful teacher (of a Media Ethics class ironically) she wrote some terrible things about her students and colleagues. Like Serena said, she has cleaned up the postings now that she has attention from the press and a pending book deal. A lot of her stories are exaggerations and caricatures of the people she encountered while at SMU. My question is, what does SMU do at this point to handle the publicity she and her blog are getting? Perhaps my former department, Corporate Communications and Public Affairs, should have known to handle this better? How so?

By: Dick Weltz

Dick Weltz — Tue, 31 May 2005 15:17:52 +0000

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Then explain IBM and other companies encouraging their employees not only to blog, but blog actively, Dick…

Posted by: Peter | May 30, 2005 01:12 PM

By: Micro Persuasion

Micro Persuasion — Tue, 31 May 2005 11:38:11 +0000

SMU Cans Blogging Prof

The Houston Chronicle reports that a professor who kept an anonymous blog about her experiences on campus was let go. The school says it wasn’t about the blog, she says it was. The irony – she teaches PR ethics! (Via

By: Serena

Serena — Tue, 31 May 2005 05:26:46 +0000

This story caught my eye when I saw it first on D Magazine’s blog. This professor has since cleaned up her site, the site you and I can see has been totally stripped down of the truly horrible things she was saying about her students and her co-workers.

So how does a company protect themselves in a blog, through their company handbooks? How does a company encourage safe blogging. One would have to think that companies encouraging blogging must have some “guiding principles”

And what makes a good blogger once he leaves a particular company. Would Andy Lark (who I know and adore) be as successful as he is if he had turned his blog into a bashing of Sun or Nortel? Sure, it’s fun to read a blog that bashes someone, but do you take a lot of stock in it -has the blogger earned the respect of the reader?

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 30 May 2005 18:12:27 +0000

Then explain IBM and other companies encouraging their employees not only to blog, but blog actively, Dick…