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Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Around Town / Phillips Is Caleb Hannan the $5,000 Man?

Posted by Betsy Phillips on Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 7:50 AM

Did y'all see this little tidbit in the News Channel 5 story about the ballooning cost of the Convention Center PR?

Monitoring local blogs, posting on internet forums, Facebook and twittering cost Metro nearly $10,000.

Okay, folks, let's ask ourselves--who exactly is writing enough about the convention center on local blogs, internet forums, Facebook, and Twitter to warrant monitoring?

You know as well as I do that it's S-Town Mike and Caleb.

And McNeely, Pigott & Fox is charging nearly $10,000 to monitor those two?!

Shoot, Nashville, I'm not saying they're not worth the money, but a lot of us read those guys for free.

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I'm obviously not savvy enough to market myself for full dollar value.

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Posted by S-townMike on 08/05/2009 at 7:56 AM

Who knew? You should try to work up some notes on what you're doing and planning to blog about and submit it to MP&F and see if you can't at least get some walking around money out of it.

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Posted by Aunt B. on 08/05/2009 at 8:02 AM

I am so proud of you folks on this issue. I am proud someone finally went and pulled the invoices and the contract from MPF. Gail Kerr was the "writer" of the article that got billed to MDHA and I so ecstatic that she lost face on this. Maybe the Tennessean will do its job from here on out and quit acting as a tool for a VERY rich PR firm.

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Posted by Moost on 08/05/2009 at 8:27 AM

Okay, apparently I misunderstood (and I'm sorry to have to report this, Caleb, because it devalues you just a tad), but not only is MP&F paying someone to keep an eye on Caleb and Mike, but part of that money is also going to pay someone to tweet about MCC.
http://twitter.com/SupportMCC
Sorry, guys.
But, hey, at least Nashville now knows our money didn't solely go towards internet stalking.

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Posted by Aunt B. on 08/05/2009 at 9:47 AM

Cash for Tweeting? Call me! I can blurt with humor in 140 or less, cheep!

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Posted by bridgett on 08/05/2009 at 9:53 AM

And the really sad thing is that the SupportMCC Twitter account only has (as of this posting) 155 followers. You'd think for that kind of $$ they could hit 200. Government waste at its finest!

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Posted by Scott on 08/05/2009 at 9:54 AM

I am All Smiles today. I may take a long lunch and buy a round.

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Posted by Moost on 08/05/2009 at 10:13 AM
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