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Public Affairs: Soap Box | PRWeek

By + on October 7, 2011 in CIPR, Public Affairs, public relations, Self Promotion, social media, Social Networks

This week’s PRWeek Public Affairs: Soap Box is a short op-ed by me on the importance of social media to public affairs professionals. This is the original piece, before I edited it down to fit PRWeek’s word count. As party conference season ends we’ve seen how all of the political parties have enthusiastically adopted social [...]

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Public affairs and social media on CIPR TV and training webinar

By + on October 3, 2011 in CIPR, Public Affairs, public relations, Self Promotion, social media

Public affairs and social media is very much on the agenda for the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) at the moment with both a CIPR TV special and a training webinar on public affairs and social media.   Firstly, this Thursday (October 6) at 17:00 there is a special public affairs double bill on [...]

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The 100 most important in-house communicators in the world

By + on September 13, 2011 in corporate communications, public relations, Reputation Management, social media

The Holmes Report has researched an interesting list of the 100 Most Important In-house Communicators in the World. It is a fascinating compilation of 100 of the most senior corporate communications professionals in some of the world’s largest companies who are responsible for the reputation management of some enviable and challenging brands. It’s also released [...]

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Twitter seeks PR help

By + on August 24, 2011 in corporate communications, public relations, social media

Irina Slutsky of AdAge reports that Twitter is looking for a New York, and maybe London, PR consultancy to support its growth. According to AdAge Twitter is ‘already in talks with a mix of large and small PR firms’. The search is being led by Sean Garrrett, Twitter’s VP-communications, who joined Twitter last year from [...]

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PR winners and losers–August 14

By + on August 14, 2011 in PR winners and losers, public relations, Public Sector, social media, Social Networks, Video

PR winners and losers is a couple of days late this week, not good for its second outing, but my take this week is: PR Winner Greater Manchester Police is this week’s PR winner for its excellent use of social media that demonstrate how social media and social networks can be a greater force for [...]

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Greater Manchester Police @gmpolice Twitter gaffe and apology

By + on August 13, 2011 in public relations, Public Sector, Reputation Management, social media

Greater Manchester Police is one of the public sector organisations that is leading the way in its use of social media. But, if you’re at the forefront of new innovations it’s inevitable that you’ll make the occasional mistake. And that is what happened to Greater Manchester Police this morning. For the last few day it [...]

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New Klout social networks

Are new Klout connected social networks a dilution?

By + on August 10, 2011 in corporate communications, public relations, social media, Social Networks

Klout has today added five new networks that you can connect to your Klout account to improve your Klout score. The five new social networks are Instagram, Tumblr, Blogger, Last.fm and Flickr. Coming soon are Facebook pages, Quora, Yelp, Posterous and WordPress.com.   On the face of it this is a good thing, but I’m [...]

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PR and Search and Social Media Insights conference speaking

By + on May 19, 2011 in public relations, Self Promotion, social media

Tomorrow I’m speaking on two panels at the SAScon Search, Analytics and Social Media conference. The first panel is Social Media Insights and the second is Search and PR. The Social Media Insights panel is described as: With a plethora of social media monitoring tools on the market today, the question is not so much [...]

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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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Who owns social media? Again.

By + on February 21, 2011 in Business, corporate communications, Marketing, public relations, Reputation Management, social media

Who owns social media? The answer is nobody, because it’s the wrong question. Or rather it’s far too simple a question. That was one reason why Benjamin Ellis ’won’ the Social Media Week debate that I took part in on ‘Who owns social media, PR, SEO, marketing, digital?‘ He won because he wasn’t trying to win it. [...]

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