First email-to-editorial-to-email transparency test completed

Fri, 04 Feb 2005 23:33:44 GMT

As with my first test, I've completed another test where the editorial points to the raw material. In the first case, the editorial provided time codes that could be used to advance to certain quotes in an audio file. In this case, the raw material is an e-mail instead of an MP3 file and the editorial mentions that the full text of the e-mail is available here, in the transparency channel. In response to concerns from the PR community regarding the automatic publication of their e-mails into my transparency channel, I adjusted my methodology and checked with the source (Kelly Larabee of Skype) to make sure she was OK with it. You can see in the thread where I asked:

Would you mind, if for transparency's sake, I published this contents of this thread between you and me on my transparency channel?.....Your email address will be removed as will any phone numbers (including my conference line numbers).

and she responded:

That would be great, no problem at all ~

So, in summary, I felt pretty good about the way this worked out. By asking Larabee if she was OK with it and assuring her that her contact information would be redacted (a laborious task, by the way), her expectations were not only properly set, she was agreeable to the idea.

David Berlind: Skype 1.0 Coverage

First email-to-editorial-to-email transparency test completed