Timbuk2 and Street Cred, Or Lack Thereof
Comments on Timbuk2 Artist Originals Holiday Event:
Jesse! wrote:
I just love how Timbuk2 is trying to gain all this street cred by using free sites like upcoming, sponsoring artists and holding events at hip co-ops like Ritual when everyone knows they’re corporate, globalized and use PR firms.
Update: I just found this, but looks like Patti Roll used this as an example on how not to get personal with dorks like me, awesome! (about minute 31:00 – 34:00 or so…)
I just got Patti Roll’d!
Wow.
Warm wishes for a happy and healthy new year to you too Jesse.
-All of us at Timbuk2
December 20th, 2007 at 9:18 amHi Jesse, this is Patti Roll. I actually work at Timbuk2. I’m sorry for being defensive in my comment but it’s hard not to take stuff like this personally. We really see a lot of promise in social media and are working to adopt it to better serve our customers. If you’d like to talk more about your concerns in how we’re engaging on sites like Upcoming, please feel free to contact me.
December 20th, 2007 at 12:56 pmHey no offense taken over here, I know I was being snarky and I encourage discussion and/or criticism.
I fully encourage the use of Upcoming.org or upcoming.yahoo.com, after all I use it as well, I wouldn’t have had a chance to even see the event posting and I invite the irony of criticizing an organization that did sponsor an artistic event.
I really have nothing else to say, my intentions were to call timbuk2 out as trying to gain street cred, which, I think the company is. It’s my opinion and not even coming from the purest of sources, but hey, that’s the nature of the net.
But honestly, why use a PR firm, or an identity as such? Why not use your own account, or a timbuk2 account? It’s social media and well, it just seems so disingenuous to see the author of the post as some corp entity meant to charge their clients exorbitant fees to post on free site.
December 20th, 2007 at 3:16 pm