Need To Get Out More
May 27, 2008 at 3:46 pm
There’s a lot of talk going on right now about Ammado and their recent spamming of a number of top bloggers. It seems that they harvested a whole bunch of names and emails and then sent them a mass email asking them to blog about something they’re running relating to UNHCR.
There are a couple of accounts of it here:
Damien’s [parental guidance!! Warning this blog carries strong language]
It looks like there’s one person called Natalia who’s carrying the Ammado torch on Alexia’s blog. Her attitude is ALL WRONG. When the blogosphere turns on you because you have BROKEN THE LAW, this tone of voice just doesn’t cut it:
Oh come on people….Did Ammado hurt you when they sent those e-mails or what????
They made a huge mistake – they sent those e-mails to you as they thought you would be interested in their appeal….. but it seems you only want to make Ammado’s work harder….
Meanwhile, over on Mulley.net, in response to another Ammado person, Anna Kupka, who claimed that they didn’t expect their appeal to be regarded as spam:
What a load of bollox. If you talk yourself up at the IIA Congress and all over the press over the past few months as having a clue about people and the web you have no excuse whatsoever for spamming and for your lack of understanding of one of the most basic tenets of the Internet.
I agree.
I think it’s a case of the Marketing Department being allowed to run wild! Is Ammado full of developers and finance people, with only a tiny team of marketing graduates who don’t have the foggiest about the internet? I’ve never ever met a single Ammado person out and about, which in my opinion shows how cut off they are from the world. Like-minded people (or in this case people who are passionate about the net) tend to bump into each other again and again. The Anna’s and Natalia’s of this world ought to get out more!
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