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    Brandjack Editor, Quentin Langley, is available to speak at business conferences and seminars.  A practised public speaker over a period of 30 years experience Quentin can speak on a range of issues relating to brandjacking and public relations.  

    Possible subjects include:

    • Brandjacking by disaffected customers - what to look out for and how to handle the situation,

    • Where BP went wrong, and how it could have handled things better.

    • Environmental campaigners - how social media will challenge your business model

    • Transforming your business for the social media world.

    Contact Quentin Langley on editor@quentinlangley.net or on +44 7957 421338

    Recent Posts

    BRANDJACKING is when an organisation loses control of the social media conversation around its brand to someone else.

    This is a new world. You don't own your reputation any more. Your goodwill exists only in the minds of people you don't know.

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    The first use of the word brandjacking appears to have been by Business Week in May 2007. See this article about cybersquatting.
    ADVERTISING AGE: Why BP Isn't Fretting Over Its Twitter Impostor

    NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- You would think that BP would be fretting over the hijacking of its brand on Twitter, because, in less than a week, the handle @bpglobalpr has amassed a following double the size of BP's real feed.

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    THE GUARDIAN: A crash course in PR from the folks at @BPGlobalPR

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    PR NEWSER: Person Behind @BPGlobalPR 'Reveals' Themselves

    The satirical Twitter feed, @BPGlobalPR, has many times more followers than BP's official Twitter feed.

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    Follow the BP parody account on Twitter

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    Forget your brand says Leroy Stick, who claims to be behind the @BPGlobalPR parody

    FORGET YOUR BRAND. You don't own it because it is literally nothing. You can spend all s orts of time and money trying to manufacture public opinion, but ultimately, that's up to the public, now isn't it?


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    Daily Telegraph:Orang utan Greenpeace protest at Kit Kat maker Nestle

    Greenpeace protesters dressed as Orang Utans claim Nestle's use of palm oil is contributing to the destruction of the rainforest.

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    The Greenpeace contest to design a new logo for BP has set the tone of recent social media conversations.

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    FT: Nestlé learns to see the wood for the trees

    Have a break. Eat an orang-utan's finger. That was the message of an advertisement posted by Greenpeace on YouTube in March.

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    BRAND REPUBLIC: Greenpeace attacks Nestlé with 'Kit Kat' viral

    Greenpeace has launched a shocking viral as part of a campaign against Nestlé to highlight the company's use of palm oil.

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    Greenpeace continues to campaign on Nestlé's involvement in the rainforests. See the group's site for more information.

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    FT: It pays to expect the unexpected

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    A fascinating report on Twitter about how the most active Twitterers can impact your brand. Also good advice about how to be influential on Twitter.

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