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CIPR The Conversation – the best PR blog posts

By on April 5, 2011 in CIPR, public relations, social media

After a very slow start the Chartered Institute of Public Relations is now advancing into social media at a far more rapid pace. Next Monday’s CIPR Social Media Conference will see the launch of The Conversation, a site that will aggregate the best PR related blogs from both CIPR members and non-members. I and a [...]

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Social business consultants – the Emperor’s new clothes

By on April 4, 2011 in Business, corporate communications, Marketing, public relations, Reputation Management, social media, Social Networks

Is social business the new badge for the social media expert? Judging by some of the events I’ve attended and an increasing number of blog posts I’ve read recently it could well be. Let’s start off with the fact that it’s yet another ‘social’ term that’s been stolen by those who appear to think the [...]

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Marketing/PR/advertising/social media case study of eight-year old’s birthday party

By on April 4, 2011 in Marketing, public relations, social media, Video

Brilliant spoof video of a marketing/PR/advertising/social media case study of an eight-year old’s birthday party: Created by johnst.com (found via @Chris_Reed and others).

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PR and social media conference speaking by Stuart Bruce

By on April 1, 2011 in CIPR, corporate communications, public relations, Reputation Management, Self Promotion, social media

Two more conference speaking gigs coming up soon. The first is the Chartered Institute of Public Relations Social Media Conference in London and the second is the Social Media in a Corporate Context Europe Conference in Amsterdam. At the CIPR Social Media Conference I’m presenting on ‘The continually evolving social world’ and will be covering [...]

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End of the line for AVEs?

By on March 23, 2011 in CIPR, Measurement and Evaluation, public relations

A month or so ago I had lunch with Danny Rogers, then the editor of PRWeek, now the editor-in-chief of all Haymarket’s marketing and brand titles. One of our many topics of discussion was the Barcelona declaration and I asked him if PRWeek was going to follow the Chartered Institute of Public Relations’ lead and [...]

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Who am I? PR, public relations or social media?

By on March 22, 2011 in corporate communications, public relations, social media

Over the last few months I’ve been involved in a fair amount of navel gazing and talking to colleagues, friends and clients about quite what it is I do. The navel gazing has involved lots of reading around the internet of mainstream media articles, research reports, blog posts and presentations as well as brainstorming sessions [...]

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Investor relations video goes viral – ‘A Day Made of Glass…’

By on March 20, 2011 in corporate communications, public relations, Reputation Management, social media, Video

Last week’s Dell B2B Social Media Huddle is part of an excellent ongoing series of events to show that social media is just as relevant in the B2B sector as it is in the higher profile B2C one. An area that gets even less attention is how social media and online PR can be relevant [...]

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Enchantment by Guy Kawasaki – book review

By on March 18, 2011 in Business, Review

Enchantment is the latest book by Guy Kawasaki, the former chief evangelist at Apple. He is also the founder of Alltop.com (an online magazine rack of popular topics on the web – disclosure this blog is highlighted as one of the Alltop PR blogs) and a founding partner at Garage Technology Ventures. In January Guy [...]

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My friend and colleague Mark Hanson RIP

By on March 4, 2011 in Self Promotion

I’m not normally a person that is lost for words. In fact I’m far too vain and pride myself on my above average ability to string a sentence together. But this week I’ve sat down and keep staring at a blank screen. I just haven’t been able to find the words to say what it [...]

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Confessions of a spin doctor – Mrs Bloggs and the political interview

By on February 28, 2011 in public relations

Yesterday the Yorkshire edition of the BBC Politics Show focused on the by-election in Barnsley. It had eight of the nine candidates present to answer questions. Labour candidate Dan Jarvis was by far and away the best performer (stay with me this isn’t going to be a partisan post). He was also by far and [...]

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