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I feel like Uber's PR team is stepping up their game. Yesterday it was how Uber is improving service to New York Boroughs.
by fblp 11y ago
I feel like Uber's PR team is stepping up their game. Yesterday it was how Uber is improving service to New York Boroughs.
- enraged_camel 11y agoThis got me thinking... I wonder how hard it would be to create a service that scours the web and detects the influence of PR (versus organic) for a given brand. If you somehow measured the "sentiment" of each article towards a brand, perhaps by scanning for words, weighing each one and compiling a score for a given article, you might able to chart the total score for that brand over time. For instance, too many positive articles that get published "out of the blue" (unprompted by events) would strongly hint at a PR team at work.
- trhway 11y agoless PR-ish article on the same subject: "http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-saudi-women-rideshare-apps-20150507-story.html#page=1" http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-saudi-women-ri... mentions an important point for the popularity of the taxi-hailing apps: "And she didn’t want to deal with the negative comments she would face if she tried to hail a cab in the conservative kingdom, a woman using public transportation on her own is often seen as lacking morals." ... "... no one can tell she isn’t using a private car." Another interesting point : "There is no law prohibiting women from driving in Saudi Arabia, but there are fatwas, or religious edicts issued by conservative Muslim clerics. As a result, the government won’t grant women licenses."
- Ntrails 11y agoI thought part of the difficulty with taxis was being in a car alone with a non-family member male?