Business, PR General, Technology

{ \ Tags: crisis pr, youtube \
Feb3 }
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

{ \ Tags: pr, press releases \
Jan28 }
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

{ \ Tags: pr blogging, social media \
Jan7 }
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 ...
Business, Europe, Global, PR General

{ \ Tags: None \
Dec12 }
Catch me and a host of other professional communicators speaking at the Communication on Top conference in Davos on the 8 and 9 February. Very much looking forward to presenting and also viewing the other presentations outlined in the programme. ...
Off topic, PR General

{ \ Tags: facebook \
Nov12 }
Facebook has a really bad flaw. It's so bad it could break up marriages and relationships. It's not exactly a flaw of Facebook's to be honest; it's more of an application flaw but ultimately the fault lies with Facebook.
There's a ...
PR General

{ \ Tags: journalists, twitter \
Oct30 }
Last night Twitter (finally) gave me permission to access its new List feature that's been buzzing around the Twittersphere lately. In a nutshell, Twitter Lists allows a users to create lists of other users ... in fact, that's not in ...
Media, PR General, Technology, UK

{ \ Tags: journalism, journalists, twitter \
Oct28 }
About a year ago I carried out a piece of research that looked at UK journalists using Twitter which was positively received from both PRs and journos. In fact, I'm going to stick my neck out and say it probably ...
PR General

{ \ Tags: twitter \
Sep29 }
My friend Alex Pearmain has given me the heads up on an initiative his employer, PR agency, Fishburn Hedges, is involved in along with Channel 4 News which involves using Twitter to engage the public during party conferences.
From the announcement:
"The ...