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Think before you Twitter

By + on April 17, 2007 in Business, Media, public relations, social media, Technology

It’s really quick and easy to Twitter. Some people appear to use it as an online stream of thought. Edelman’s Steve Rubel obviously wasn’t thinking when he Twittered: “PC Mag is another. I have a free sub but it goes…

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Not readers or consumers, but ‘commenters’

By + on April 13, 2007 in Business, Media, public relations, social media

Simon Dickson has an interesting post after last night’s open house at the new Telegraph media centre. He was struck by the the number of people who attended in their capacity as ‘commenters’. It’s interesting that they felt there was…

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The great PR degree debate

By + on April 4, 2007 in Business, CIPR, Media, public relations

TWL has an interesting debate going on the merits or otherwise of PR degrees. Richard Bailey has also chimed in (it was Kirsty O’Connor, one of his students who started it with a letter to PR Week). Personally I think…

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How Do launches in the North West

By + on March 31, 2007 in Business, Cumbria, Media, Yorkshire

Several of the North West blogs I read have alerted me to How Do, a new online venture by Nick Jaspen (founder of Newsco publishers of the Insider series of business titles, and more recently the failed North West Enquirer)….

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PR Week Power Book regional breakdown

By + on March 30, 2007 in Business, Media, Politics, public relations, Self Promotion, Yorkshire

After reading David Brain’s quick analysis of what PR Week’s Power Book told us about what we all didn’t know about each other I thought it would be worthwhile doing a quick regional analysis. I’ve only looked at the north…

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PR Week is getting better, sort of

By + on March 29, 2007 in Media, public relations, Video

PR Week has been a much better read these last few weeks, than it has been for some years. However, there are bits of it I just don’t get. I mean what is Blog of the Day all about? Good…

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Find your balls and start consulting

By + on March 29, 2007 in Business, Media, public relations

“It’s your clients that want to see copy…it’s not your fault..? Well find your balls and start consulting.” Amen. Thanks to The World’s Leading… Technorati tags: PR, public relations, business, media relations, journalism. consultancy

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Best of Britain Blog Awards

By + on March 22, 2007 in Business, Media, Politics, public relations, social media

Dan Matthews at the Real Business blog is asking where are all the good UK business blogs. It seems that the Real Business blog has been shortlisted for the ‘Best of Brit Blog Awards’ run by Ask.com and Metro. Dan…

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Road pricing petition driven by Daily Mail

By + on February 20, 2007 in Government, Media, social media

Simon Dickson points to some great analysis by Hitwise’s Heather Hopkins of the traffic (and therefore the signatures) to the e-petition on road charging. The Daily Mail is the fourth largest provider of traffic (behind Google, Hotmail and the No…

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How to get a business magazine to write about your company

By + on February 15, 2007 in Business, Media, public relations

The internet’s a wonderful thing. On Linkedin Answers James Cleverly, head of online sales for Real Business magazine, asked “What are the top ten business related blogs, ideally in the UK.” I made some suggestions and then realised it was…

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