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The best of social media over the holiday season

By + on December 31, 2008 in social media

I really don’t like those blog posts where all the blogger does is regurgitate a series of links they’ve recently read, but it’s the holidays and I don’t have time for a long post and I’ve spotted lots of useful…

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Top ten ways not to choose a social media consultant

By + on December 19, 2008 in Business, Marketing, public relations, social media

I’ve just come from a breakfast meeting with Thomas Gensemer, the managing partner of Blue State Digital (BSD) and Joe Rospars, partner in BSD and Barack Obama’s former new media director. My post was inspired by a comment from Gensemer…

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Season’s Greetings to one and all

By + on December 18, 2008 in Self Promotion, Video

Merry Christmas a prosperous new year to one and all.

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Wolfstar wins CIPR Grand Prix award for outstanding small consultancy

By + on December 17, 2008 in CIPR, public relations, Self Promotion

Everyone’s buzzing in the Wolfstar office today as we’ve just found out that we’ve won the Chartered Institute of Public Relations Grand Prix PRide award for outstanding small consultancy. I’m not going to say much as Tim Sinclair, our chairman,…

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Don’t Panic guide to social media conference

By + on December 8, 2008 in public relations, Self Promotion, social media

On Friday I was the ‘wrap up’ speaker at the Don’t Panic Guide to Social Media conference in Manchester. It was a fantastic day with some great speakers. My presentation wasn’t quite what I intended it to be. I was…

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Social media campaign to back Manchester congestion charge yes vote

By + on December 8, 2008 in Politics, social media, Video

Lucy Powell, Labour’s prospective parliamentary candidate for Manchester Withington, contacted me over the weekend to ask if I could give a push to her new YouTube video urging a yes vote in Thursday’s c-charge referendum for the proposed congestion charge….

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Are PR degrees worth it? The survey!

By + on November 21, 2008 in Uncategorized

As a follow-up to Jed’s post asking “Is a public relations degree worth it?” we’ve put together a quick survey to find out what you all think. I’d be grateful if you could spend a couple of minutes to answer…

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Vodafone LiveGuy in the Wolfstar office

By + on November 21, 2008 in Uncategorized

With our work for Sony Ericsson Wolfstar works with some very nice people from Dare Digital. Some of the other guys at Dare are working with Vodafone on the LiveGuy grand tour of the UK. A few minutes ago LiveGuy…

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Speaking at Marketing Live Conference in Bratislava

By + on November 15, 2008 in Self Promotion, social media, Word of Mouth

As well as the Don’t Panic Guide to Social Media Conference in Manchester I’m also going to be speaking at the Marketing Live Conference in Bratislava on November 26. I’ll be speaking about word of mouth marketing and social media.

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Even later: Three inspirational communicators

By + on November 12, 2008 in public relations

A long, long time ago my fried Andy Wake asked me to take part in the New Wave PR meme naming my three most inspirational communicators, to help identify speakers and promote Don’t Panic’s New Wave PR conference. I failed…

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