Measurement Smarts… Or Mata Hari?

August 18th, 2010 | Shonali Burke | 3 Comments

Are we smart about measurement… or unwittingly being Mata Hari?

Image: Bob Bobster, Creative Commons

Yesterday’s #measurePR chat was VERY interesting.

Philip Sheldrake of Influence Crowd was our guest, and we focused on the ethics of measurement; here’s a recent post that tells you how and why he came to be on the show, er, chat.

Before I could get to it, Philip wrote up a great recap of the chat, so I’m not going to try to improve on what’s already excellent.

You can, however, view and/or download the transcript of #measurePR with Philip Sheldrake, if you’d like.

What I couldn’t stop thinking about, after we ended the chat, was how clueless we PR pros are when it comes to actually understanding the motions that lie behind various tracking mechanisms.

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