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PR Unspun at Chinwag

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

Chinwag Live’s next London event is PR Unspun on April 24. I’m still not sure if I’m going to be in London that day, but if I am then I’ll certainly be there. There’s a great panel chaired by Mike…

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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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Microsoft PR programme revealed

By + on March 28, 2007 in Business, public relations, social media

Wired reporter Fred Vogelstein has an amusing story about how Microsoft’s US PR agency Waggener Edstrom sent its pre-interview briefing document (PDF) – to Fred instead of the Microsoft exec who was going to be interviewed. It’s standard practice to…

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RSA conference on social impact of the web

By + on March 28, 2007 in Business, Government, Politics, social media

The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) is hosting a conference on “How can new internet technology empower us to interact with each other in novel ways”. Sounds interesting, not least because it’s free. You…

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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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Weber Shandwick Bryne Baby Bryne

By + on March 16, 2007 in Business, public relations, social media

Colin Bryne, CEO of Weber Shandwick in the UK, gets my award for best named blog – Bryne Baby Bryne. Only three posts so far, but looking good so far. The main thing it lacks is a blog roll, which…

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Facebook badge added

By + on March 6, 2007 in Business, Politics, social media

Couple of updates to the blog. I’ve now re-populated the Upcoming events so it actually shows some of the events I’m at. As a result of my work on Alan Johnson’s Labour Party deputy leadership bid I’ve also added a…

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Delivering the New PR 2.0 – Creating value through social media

By + on March 5, 2007 in Business, public relations, Self Promotion, social media

My fellow speakers Philip Young and Tom Murphy have already posted about the fact that the second series of Delivering the New PR conferences is kicking off in Newcastle on March 27. It will be all new content from the…

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Friction.TV wants your opinion

By + on February 23, 2007 in Business, Politics, social media, Video

Thanks to Tom Murphy for the tip off about Friction.TV. The idea is that you upload your video giving your opinion on a particular issue and then invite debate and contributions. Topic areas include politics, education, environment, business, health, society,…

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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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