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Sponsor me to do the London Triathlon

{ Comments Off \ Tags: None \ Apr6 }
Sponsor me to do the London Triathlon I've never done an Olympic triathlon before (in fact I've never done any kind of triathlon before) and it seemed like a good idea at the time. 1.5km swim, 40km bike ride, and 10km run. I've signed up to the ...
PR General, Technology

48 percent of journalists are using Twitter

{ 4 Comments \ Tags: , \ Mar2 }
48 percent of journalists are using Twitter The 2nd piece of research from Middleberg Communications and the Society for New Communications Research titled, "Media in the Wired World" (pdf). Key points include: Nearly 70 percent of journalists are using social networking sites, a 28% increase since the ...
Business, Europe, Global, PR General

Corporate Blogging – a dying fad?

{ 4 Comments \ Tags: , , \ Feb9 }
Corporate Blogging – a dying fad? I've just returned from the Communication on Top conference held in Davos, Switzerland and what a great conference it was too with lots of insightful and thought-provoking presentations from communication professionals from around the world. I had a fantastic time ...
Business, Global

Ten Trends of 20-somethings

{ 6 Comments \ Tags: None \ Feb4 }
Ten Trends of 20-somethings A friend of mine is doing the PR around the One Young World initiative which is being touted as 'the Davos for young people' and which is taking place in London on 8th - 10th February. It's a very interesting ...
Business, PR General, Technology

YouTube: the channel of choice for C-level execs

{ 5 Comments \ Tags: , \ Feb3 }
YouTube: the channel of choice for C-level execs Something bad happened to your company? Scandal occurring? Negative press from the traditional media outlets? Reputation damage? There's always YouTube. YouTube is becoming the communication channel of choice among senior executives during a time of crisis. CEOs, presidents and other ...
Business, PR General

An Inconvenient PR Truth – time to end PR pollution

{ 14 Comments \ Tags: , \ Jan28 }
An Inconvenient PR Truth – time to end PR pollution www.inconvenientprtruth.com 1.7 billion irrelevant press release emails estimated to be received in total each year by UK and US Journalists alone 78% of press release emails are received by Recipients to whom they are irrelevant 55% of Recipients have taken action to block ...
PR General

I too have Social Media sweats

{ 10 Comments \ Tags: , \ Jan7 }
I too have Social Media sweats Tom Murphy, Irish guy who does PR for Microsoft in the States and one of the first people I met through social media*, nails it with his latest blog post. I think I am having Social Media sweats. There are just ...
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Brand Britain is fine

{ 5 Comments \ Tags: None \ Jan5 }
Brand Britain is fine The PR-otaginist, Dom Whitehurst, who is also a mate of mine, is annoyed. He feels Britain's going down the swanny. Dom says, "British people don't care about the UK any more. The era of national pride has passed and all ...

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