Comments on: The Life & Times of a Nortel PR Person http://www.allaboutnortel.com/2007/09/14/the-life-times-of-a-nortel-pr-person/ All the News about Nortel Networks Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: b5media - Technology through September Sound Bites http://www.allaboutnortel.com/2007/09/14/the-life-times-of-a-nortel-pr-person/comment-page-1/#comment-1842 b5media - Technology through September Sound Bites Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:27:09 +0000 http://www.allaboutnortel.com/2007/09/14/the-life-times-of-a-nortel-pr-person/#comment-1842 [...] Evans of All About Nortel discusses the life and times of a Nortel PR guy: Maybe, in a strange way, PR person thrive when it comes to managing bad news - much like [...] [...] Evans of All About Nortel discusses the life and times of a Nortel PR guy: Maybe, in a strange way, PR person thrive when it comes to managing bad news – much like [...]

]]> By: Casual Observer http://www.allaboutnortel.com/2007/09/14/the-life-times-of-a-nortel-pr-person/comment-page-1/#comment-1843 Casual Observer Mon, 17 Sep 2007 01:45:52 +0000 http://www.allaboutnortel.com/2007/09/14/the-life-times-of-a-nortel-pr-person/#comment-1843 The PR issue is one Nortel can't seem to shake. From what I've heard from insiders, Nortel can't do much to actually hire younger talent at lower levels of the company. I'd say most of this is due to all the negative press the last several years. I guess this is another reason to hire more folks in Asia where Nortel's name hasn't been as sullied. The PR issue is one Nortel can’t seem to shake. From what I’ve heard from insiders, Nortel can’t do much to actually hire younger talent at lower levels of the company. I’d say most of this is due to all the negative press the last several years. I guess this is another reason to hire more folks in Asia where Nortel’s name hasn’t been as sullied.

]]> By: Ken http://www.allaboutnortel.com/2007/09/14/the-life-times-of-a-nortel-pr-person/comment-page-1/#comment-1844 Ken Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:15:57 +0000 http://www.allaboutnortel.com/2007/09/14/the-life-times-of-a-nortel-pr-person/#comment-1844 I don't see how Nortel's name is getting dragged through the mud again? Back when the accounting issues where discovered the folks that manipulated the numbers were terminated. Nortel can't officially make any statement like "we are glad the SEC is nailing these guys" because they could get sued over it. But a PR person could easily say (because its true...) "As soon as we discovered the irregularties we reported them to the SEC and since then we have spent large amounts of time and money to get all accounting issues resolved and to make our finanicial reporting system world class. We continue to work with the SEC to help resolve all issues." If anything this announcement makes it easier for Nortel. You did mention after all that the folks in question are "ex-Nortel executives"... I don’t see how Nortel’s name is getting dragged through the mud again? Back when the accounting issues where discovered the folks that manipulated the numbers were terminated. Nortel can’t officially make any statement like “we are glad the SEC is nailing these guys” because they could get sued over it. But a PR person could easily say (because its true…) “As soon as we discovered the irregularties we reported them to the SEC and since then we have spent large amounts of time and money to get all accounting issues resolved and to make our finanicial reporting system world class. We continue to work with the SEC to help resolve all issues.”

If anything this announcement makes it easier for Nortel. You did mention after all that the folks in question are “ex-Nortel executives”…

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