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Seminar: How to make PR work online

Will Critchlow informs me that his company, Distilled, is holding a seminar on online PR on Wednesday 11 July, 5pm at their offices. Will says on the Distilled blog: “It’s targeted mainly at agencies and people working in PR, though it’ll hopefully also be interesting to people doing their own PR as well. We are not intending to talk about how to do PR or the fundamentals of good PR campaigns (the people this is aimed at know far more about that kind of thing than we do) but rather the plan is to share some of our knowledge about translating PR into online benefit (and particularly into benefit with the search engines).”

If you’re in the area it’s definitely one worth checking out. I’m learning bits of SEO as I go but could always do with knowing more.

New blog: The Answer Experts

Here’s a good idea for a media related blog. Andrew Harvey informs me of the Answer Experts, a blog that gives its ‘verdict on the media performances of top businesses and organisations’ and in his own words it “takes a critical, and sometimes wry, look at how those in the public eye respond to the media or use the media to broadcast their views.”

Andrew and his partner Graham Leach own a media training company, HarveyLeach. As a sidenote, I, along with many others, grew up with Andrew reading the news on both the BBC and ITV. And here’s a video I found on YouTube of Andrew reading the headlines back in 1986.

Cool beans.

Regionals go all web two dot ooh

journalism.co.uk reports that owner of the Daily Mirror and a number of other titles, Trinity Mirror, is revamping its regional newspaper websites – starting with the Liverpool Daily Post and Liverpool Echo. The Liverpool Daily Post seems to be embracing the whole citizen journalism concept really well by allowing the public to send in their own stories, upload pictures and videos.

The same article reports that Trinity Mirror will also be updating the websites of the Journal and the Evening Chronicle, in Newcastle, and the Middlesbrough-based Evening Gazette. Titles in South and North Wales, Yorkshire and Scotland will similarly follow suit.

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