Hot off the presses from the industrious hacks at Getting Ink is the shiny new Getting Ink Requests blog: We’ve talked a lot over the last few months about disintermediation in the journalism process – how platforms like Facebook and…
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Electrolux is the latest big brand to launch a social media news room. As its new, it’s pretty bare at the moment, but the bones are already there with tag clouds, YouTube, Flickr, Creative Commons license and a Share This…
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How-Do is becoming a compelling read, despite the fact that it’s about the North West media scene – although running a PR consultancy in Leeds and originally coming from the Lake District does mean I have a foot in the…
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Next month I’m off on my first US business trip for Wolfstar. First I’m in Las Vegas for the WOMMA Word of Mouth Marketing Summit (November 14-15) and then we’re driving back through California to San Francisco. I did think…
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Tom Coates of the excellent plasticbag.org blog has quite rightly complained about the frequent incompetent pitches he gets from PR firms. Tom thinks the reason is because Stephen Davies included him in his list of the Top 100 UK Blogs….
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Mark Hanson has an interesting article on The Guardian’s commentisfree… asking if Britain is ready for politics 2.0. It’s well worth a read if you’re interested in PR and social media, even if you’re not particularly political. I’m not sure…
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In January I wrote “My New Year wish is for everyone to think nicer”. I was bemoaning the fact that so many journalists and bloggers have such a nasty, pessimistic view of life. One of the issues that was making…
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PR consultant and prominent Conservative blogger Ellee Seymour isn’t too impressed by Cameron’s appointment of ex-News of the World editor Andy Coulson as the Tory’s new PR chief. However, the most interesting part of her post is the discussion in…
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Guy Clapperton – freelance journo on all things small business, IT and Dr Who (have I missed anything Guy?) – has shared some great tips for how you should always pitch journalists – or not Technorati tags: PR, public relations,…
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Last night’s Chinwag Live PR Unspun event was very well attended. Not much to add to Neville Hobson’s post as for me it was mainly an opportunity to meet old and new friends and associates such as Neville, Lloyd Davies…
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