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, survey \
Mar27 }
From 181 responses these are the results from last week's blog post. Perhaps not surprising given that people in the industry are generally quite social anyway. But, come one, how much better (and productive) would your day be without the ...
PR General

{ \ Tags: networking, pr \
Mar22 }
It started as a tweet on Twitter after chatting with Melanie Seasons via Skype about where PR people prefer to work:
I insticitively thought people in the industry would much prefer office life but from the responses I received that's not ...
Media, PR General

{ \ Tags: journalists, online pr, pr, twitter \
Jan7 }
The last few weeks I've started noticing some PR people I follow on Twitter give a heads up to twittering journalists about a press release they've sent them. It usually goes something like "@journalist Just sent you a release. Let ...
PR General, UK

{ \ Tags: online pr, pr \
Dec11 }
An interesting new Online PR report has been published by training, events and publishing organisation, e-consultancy. The Online PR Industry Benchmarking Report by authors Michelle Goodall and Aliya Zaidi is based on a survey of 300 PR and marketing professionals ...
PR General

{ \ Tags: online pr, pr, social media \
Dec6 }
T'was a good day out on Friday at the Don't Panic Guide to Social Media conference. Thanks to Nicky and Andy Wake at Don't Panic Projects for, once again, putting on a great event. Apparently there was a lot of ...
Media, PR General, UK

{ \ Tags: pr, twitter \
Nov10 }
Following on from last week's UK journalists on Twitter (jeeple?) post, I thought it would be good to do something similar with UK based PR people (preeple?). Listed below you'll see tweeters from some familiar PR agencies and in-house PR ...
PR General

{ \ Tags: cipr, pr \
Sep21 }
On Friday I delivered two workshops at the CIPR Northern Conference; this year held at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester - last year it was held in Newcastle. The underlying theme of this year's conference was 'reputation' and my workshop ...