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Technorati and Edelman PR
to co-develop Asian language blog search tools

Posted by Jeremy Goldkorn, May 26, 2006 5:08 PM
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Richard Edelman: drinking the same Kool-Aid as Danwei
Edelman is a huge, international, independent public relations firm. They say they are the largest in the world. The CEO and president Richard Edelman is a big believer in the power of blogs, and was recently the subject of a little media contraversy in the US, after he made statements to the effect that blogs have given PR professionals a direct communication channel that bypasses the traditional media.

Edelman writes a blog himself: it's called 6 A.M., a name that I suspect was chosen to convey that he gets up and starts working a lot earlier than you do.

Recently, Edelman concluded a deal with blog search engine and directory Technorati. From Edelman's press release:


Technorati to Develop Blog Search in Five Languages for the Use by Edelman Teams Worldwide; Sites Will Be Widely Available to the Public in 2007

Edelman ... and ... Technorati have formed a relationship to enable Edelman multinational clients track global conversations about their brands, protect their corporate reputation and form insights that help them participate in a compelling way.

Technorati will develop for Edelman localized blog search tools in Chinese, Korean, German, Italian and French. The agency’s global account teams will retain exclusive worldwide use of these sites until early 2007. Edelman staff will be able to use the data to provide insights to clients, and facilitate a sustained dialogue. At that time, they will evolve into more robust public-facing tools that complement Technorati and their Japanese affiliate, Technorati Japan. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Note: Technorati's website is blocked in China, so they will have to come up with a new solution for the PRC if this new product is based on data from their public access blog search engine.

Disclosure: Your correspodent's day job has previously involved work for Edelman in China.

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There are currently 3 Comments for Technorati and Edelman PR
to co-develop Asian language blog search tools.

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to co-develop Asian language blog search tools

Is Edelman going to use this tool to place manufactured messages in the blogosphere and try to corporatize the medium? The Chinese net nanny aleady does this. Is Edelman going to hire tens of thousands of net shills to spin the blogs in favor of his clients' brands - or social order?

Posted by: Jay | May 28, 2006 4:31 PM

What Edelman is proposing makes sense. The web is more than just English and blogging is more than just English and, just as is done with many of the search engines, there should be more recognition of this in the blog engines. One of our loyal readers has been translating our blog into Korean and, if we had the time/energy, we'd be translating it into Chinese as well (maybe soon!). Around 25% of our readers are from China, but they all say they like it in English because it helps with their English. Of course, this ignores all the potential readers whose English is not good enough to stop by.

Posted by: China Law Blog | May 28, 2006 8:22 PM

Jay, any PR company (or any company at all) that ignores the blogosphere does so at its peril. Take it from a blogging flack.

As for "corporatizing the medium", um, too late. Already happened. Sorry, buddy. Marketing is a like a gas: it expands to fill the shape and volume of any available container.

Posted by: Will | May 29, 2006 4:43 PM

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