4 posts tagged “profile”

If Google mentions are an indicator of how much impact you are having on the global dialogue, then here are how the various political leaders or candidates are doing (names entered in quotes).
   Notes: in the US figures, the sitting president has been added for comparison. No adjustment has been made for namesakes, different spellings, etc. (giving Australian senator Bob Brown, the UK Democratic Unionist Party’s Peter Robinson, the Respect Coalition’s Linda Smith, Northern Ireland’s Alliance Party’s David Ford and New Zealand Alliance co-leaders Kay Murray and Andrew McKenzie more than one might expect). As I am unsure of the leadership of the various green parties in the UK, they have been omitted from the count. First- through third-ranked candidates marked in parentheses.

New Zealand
Jim Anderton 123,000
Larry Baldock 4,930
Helen Clark 1,050,000 (1)
Peter Dunne 151,000
Taito Phillip Field 13,200
Jeanette Fitzsimons 65,900
Rodney Hide 65,800
John Key 220,000 (2)
Andrew McKenzie 54,700
Kay Murray 11,500
Russel Norman 37,200
Winston Peters 196,000 (3)
Pita Sharples 19,600
Tariana Turia 39,300

USA
Chuck Baldwin 275,000
Bob Barr 780,000
George W. Bush 56,200,000
John McCain 39,600,000 (2)
Cynthia McKinney 819,000 (3)
Barack Obama 62,900,000 (1)

UK
Gerry Adams 645,000
Gordon Brown 11,700,000 (1)
David Cameron 3,160,000 (2)
Nick Clegg 370,000 (3—see notes)
Mark Durkan 51,100
Reg Empey 38,500
Nigel Farage 69,900
David Ford 618,000
Robin Harper 36,800
Alison Johnson 4,510
Ieuan Wyn Jones 41,300
Dawn Purvis 5,260
Peter Robinson 1,310,000
Alex Salmond 352,000
Linda Smith 508,000

Australia
Bob Brown 1,010,000 (3—see notes)
Steve Fielding 24,800
Brendan Nelson 283,000 (2—see notes)
Kevin Rudd 2,570,000 (1)
Warren Truss 73,900

New Zealand is a year behind on Life on Mars, and I note from a TV One ad just now that Derren Brown’s Séance will air next week. I know we are necessarily behind the UK on British programmes, but I don’t remember us being this far behind since the 1970s. A three-year-old show? What is happening? Now with Cold Case, Without a Trace and other American shows on One, is this the end of the British influence on our networks?
   And people wonder why TVNZ as a whole is doing so poorly. It’s simply not delivering what people want. I can say that with some more authority, having been an insider.
   Incidentally, having left Good Morning, my theory has been proven right: my profile is up. The results are in: May saw eight press mentions across the company—up on 2006, but down on some months in 2003–5 where we were seeing something written about us at least daily. (The idea that appearing on TV regularly enhances your profile is, I can now say, bollocks.) It is reaching the levels (measured in column inches and mentions) it was at before I began on the show; indeed, we seem to be returning, as a company, to pre-2004 levels, before we made some bad hiring decisions. I do seem to have rid myself of the negative influences in my life—and Good Morning, and whatever sickness TVNZ has, were the last.
   I love being proved right—it was a good lesson, reminding myself to stick to my guns, remembering that sort of magic that helped us get an international clientèle to begin with, and exposing me to seeing a bad organization that wasn’t paying me to fix it. It’s not every day I have that opportunity: while I have seen ill organizations, I am usually called in after they have realized they need help. TVNZ has not got there yet and, in recent memory, is the only first-hand example I have of an organization I got to see over a period that wants to stay in its funk. It had more often been a management-textbook theory.
   As to my personal profile, I believe the slip in press mentions was due to an energy mismatch here at work in 2005–6 and the fact that appearing on Good Morning took me away from building my media appearances doing the things that mattered to me as a CEO. From a personal-brand standpoint, it was not authentic, to coin a phrase from Johnnie Moore. Not that that was the intent: I had been promised by the network that I could promote Lucire, most of all, through the show. That promise, as those of you who listened to my voice post last month, was not kept.
   Furthermore, I cannot see, with hindsight, how the ‘You’ve Got Male’ segment was a dignified forum for a company leader. I say this with respect to men like Paul Sinclair, with whom I regularly stay in contact.
   When I think of interviews I have had with CNN or the BBC, the show went against the image I had built up as a businessman.
   As each week passes, I feel more comfortable with my decision to leave Good Morning, and the positive consequences are coming up more frequently.
   My main regrets are endorsing the show to friends, getting caught up in it. I should have recommended that Laural and Sharaine Barrett not appear, though it was a good excuse to catch up in Wellington. Jennifer Hamilton of Avidiva reports no increase in profile, bookings or ‘Oh, I saw you on …’ since appearing on Good Morning.
   You may see me on C4 in mid-July (to be confirmed), and there may be some news that could net some television attention in late June–early July. The key is to not get sucked in to negative organizations or be around negative people as part of my routine—and if I have to appear on a TVNZ network, then it must be totally in line with my real job and personal mission.

 
We haven’t linked this publicly yet, but readers may enjoy a preview of an article on actress Ashley Scott, whom I interviewed last year. We didn’t get to use all the pictures by Andrew Matusik, and there was an error in the print edition on attribution, so the online one fixes these issues. In addition, we’ve updated the article slightly to reflect Ashley’s work on the TV series Jericho, currently screening on TV3 in New Zealand.
   That means we have had three Lucire profiles this year on the website about celebrities with connections with the Carolinas. Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Brooklyn Decker has North Carolina roots, while Miss New Zealand Laural Barrett and Louisiana-born Ashley have South Carolina ones: Ashley was raised in Charleston, SC, and still believes the Holy City to be one of her favourite places.

070521 Farewell to Good Morning

Jack Yan

No more Good Morning for yours truly. As some of you know from the private posts here at Vox, I felt that things haven’t been right with the show for some time. I probably stayed a lot longer than I wished, primarily because I had a pretty good rapport with my co-presenters. 
   Those of you who’ll choose to listen to my little voice post at left will get filled in on the nitty-gritty—which has not been denied or disputed by TVNZ. And I do have a photographic memory that is better than most people’s.
   At the beginning, I agreed to go on the show to promote my work, and my right to do this was taken away gradually. The interesting thing is that Good Morning never managed to contribute to my profile: I had a lot more press coverage before I was on the show. Now free of Good Morning, I have noticed things such as invitations to speak and other public appearances have increased domestically.
   Good Morning, with hindsight, never fulfilled my motivations—and actually caused the opposite. The invasions into my privacy—the subject of written complaints and telephone conversations by me—were, at the end of the day, inappropriate and dealt with unfairly.
   I stressed to the producer, Sally-anne Kerr, in my request to have my contract terminated, that I did not hold her personally accountable. I believe she had had her hands tied by those further up the food chain.
   However, there is no hard and fast rule that says that if you appear on TV, you open yourself up to public inquiry. As I said at the beginning of this month, I am no Judy Bailey (even if some people took that the wrong way). I’m just a regular bloke who did between eight and seventeen minutes of live TV a week, on a show that even I did not watch, except in review situations.
   I thank those who read the private posts for their support and their vows to never watch Good Morning again!
   You will likely see me or one of the team on C4 in New Zealand next month anyway, while Lucire’s US editor Summer Rayne Oakes continues her media exposure. Stefan Engeseth recently was on TV in Göteborg. So we are continuing to be out there, doing things that are far more relevant to the work that we are trying to do at Jack Yan & Associates. Good Morning, sadly, was very incompatible with that: it came to symbolize the trivial in my life, and even the annoying.
   Perhaps unlike Judy Bailey and other people who are actually known by the general public, I don’t want the gig back—so please don’t take my posting as anything but fuelled by my usual desire to share with readers. Except it is regulated by me—not through prodding. Most of you came to my blogs through my real work, not through TV, but I did feel I owed some explanation to those who did come via the show.
   And for those who came via my work, I have always advocated transparency in organizations.