From the Wall Street Journal ...
Jan. 14, 2010 - Google Inc.'s startling threat to withdraw from China was an intensely personal decision, drawing its celebrated founders and other top executives into a debate over the right way to confront the issues of censorship and cyber security.
Google's very public response to what it called a "highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China" was crafted over a period of weeks, with heavy involvement from Google's co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
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About Me
- Thomas J. Goff
- The simple focus of this blog is to call attention to new and useful ideas in the practice of public persuasion, with my principal emphasis on public relations. I have been a PR professional for nearly 25 years. Today I practice crisis and corporate reputation public relations internationally for high profile executives and companies, and I teach as an adjunct professor at the Annenberg School of Communications at USC. I was most recently executive vice president for Edelman, the largest independent PR agency in the world. I was also a senior PR executive for Lockheed, ARCO, and Global Crossing. I am a former reporter for Fortune and was senior editor at New York Magazine and Esquire.