{"id":8682,"date":"2010-06-25T08:30:11","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T08:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/what_happens_when_bp_spills_coffee.html"},"modified":"2010-06-25T08:30:11","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T08:30:11","slug":"what-happens-when-bp-spills-coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/what-happens-when-bp-spills-coffee.html","title":{"rendered":"What Happens When BP Spills Coffee?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The web can be your worst enemy when you are a company at the center of an environmental tragedy and causing massive amounts of oil to destroy livelihoods and more. Recently I wrote about an <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/crm\/does-bp-now-stand-for-black-pest.html\">effort<\/a> by Greenpeace online to come up with a new logo for BP as it relates to the oil spill\/catastrophe. Now there is a very viral <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucbcomedy.com\/videos\/play\/6472\/bp-spills-coffee\">video<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucbcomedy.com\">UCB Comedy<\/a> making <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/wire\/25663\/?nlid=3166&amp;a=f\">the rounds<\/a> and showing what happens when BP spills coffee.<\/p>\n<p> It is pretty funny and worth a look.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"600\" height=\"388\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.ucbcomedy.com\/videos\/embed\/23691f9f95fce8fca3b49a14619493ae\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.ucbcomedy.com\/videos\/embed\/23691f9f95fce8fca3b49a14619493ae\" width=\"600\" height=\"388\" wmode=\"transparent\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><\/embed><\/object> <br \/> Once again, it reminds us how important social media and the web can be to a company&#8217;s brand and reputation. Granted, 24&#215;7 cameras in HD showing how much oil you are responsible for leaking into the Gulf of Mexico is tough to top from a negative public relations perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The web can be your worst enemy when you are a company at the center of an environmental tragedy and causing massive amounts of oil to destroy livelihoods and more. Recently I wrote about an effort by Greenpeace online to come up with a new logo for BP as it relates to the oil spill\/catastrophe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[215,161,1682,206,118,217,190],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}