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Cision’s Top 10 UK PR blogs

Posted on July 3, 2009 at 5:19 pm (UK)
in: Business, Communication, Marketing, Public Relations, Social Media

Business and communication intelligence firm Cision updated their list yesterday of the top 10 PR blogs in the UK, which now looks like this:

Neville Hobson
PR Media Blog
Drew B’s take on tech PR
The Way of the Web
Spinwatch
PR Studies
Mediations
Northern PR
Stuart Bruce – A PR Guy’s Musings
Sandrine Plasseraud [...]

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Mining the MJ community

Posted on June 30, 2009 at 12:42 pm (UK)
in: Business, Communication, Marketing, Online Media, Society, Trends, Web

This is going to be huge.
The official Michael Jackson website invites its visitors to share their MJ memories in classic blog comment form. As of writing there are 354 044 memories “from Michael Jackson fans worldwide”, and growing naturally. Meanwhile, the Facebook page now clocks in 2 414 413 fans. On June 26, [...]

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Gearing up for a Michael Jackson bonanza

Posted on June 29, 2009 at 6:56 am (UK)
in: Business, Entertainment, Marketing, Music, Society, Web

At various times during the weekend when I was out and about, I was checking the latest news on my iPhone, usually with the excellent Sky News app.
It did amaze me at one point on Saturday to note that every major news story I saw was something about Michael Jackson.
That’s almost all there’s been [...]

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Mashable’s one-stop guide to Twitter

Posted on June 29, 2009 at 6:36 am (UK)
in: Business, Communication, Social Media, Software, Twitter, Web

Pete Cashmore of internet news site Mashable asks:
Where’s the user manual for Twitter? Where do new Twitter users go to learn about Tweeting, retweets, hashtags and customizing your Twitter profile? Where do you go if you want to know all about building a community on Twitter, or using Twitter for business? How can you [...]

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The curious case of Steve Jobs, the WSJ and no known sources

Posted on June 22, 2009 at 8:32 am (UK)
in: Blogging, Business, Communication, Journalism, Mainstream Media, Public Relations, Reputation

A growing story over the weekend concerns Apple CEO Steve Jobs, his state of health and whether or not he’s had a liver transplant.
That’s what a report in the Wall Street Journal says.
What I’ve found especially interesting is a post by John Gruber which looks like the epitome of careful and thoughtful research-backed analysis [...]

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Twitter apps: Mobile and sync are the keys

Posted on June 17, 2009 at 8:13 am (UK)
in: Business, Communication, Investor Relations, Marketing, Mobile, Social Media, Software, Twitter, Web, Workplace

The two primary Twitter applications for the desktop – TweetDeck and Seesmic Desktop – released new versions in the past 24 hours.
Both are the latest salvoes in a battle where one winner could gain supremacy as the app on the desktop for keeping in touch with what’s happening on Twitter (and, if you wish, [...]

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How to make your business card a smart card

Posted on June 15, 2009 at 7:49 am (UK)
in: Business, Communication, Marketing, Mobile, Software, Technology, Trends, Workplace

A post by Frank Eliason on business cards got me thinking a lot about the value of such bits of paper.
And they are bits of paper, aren’t they? Name, title, company, logo, address, phone, email, etc, printed on rectangular bits of stiff paper. The format hasn’t really changed in years.
Yet it’s a format we’re [...]

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But it’s not Cadbury’s

Posted on June 14, 2009 at 7:06 pm (UK)
in: Business, Experiences, Marketing, Society

As we’re in a recession, you have to look for cost savings wherever you can find them.
From a consumer’s point of view, that often means compromising your brand preferences.
At least, that’s how it looks to me when I go with my wife to the supermarket and look at what my favourite branded products cost [...]

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Twitter drives $3m sales for Dell

Posted on June 12, 2009 at 7:26 am (UK)
in: Business, Innovation, Marketing, Social Media, Twitter, Web

While many businesses are trying to work out how to make money from Twitter, computer maker Dell shows what they have done to validate Twitter as a credible business tool.
Last December, Dell claimed $1 million in sales that the company could directly attribute to their use of Twitter.
Dell offers refurbished laptops, desktops, workstations, servers [...]

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The best rate to the UK isn’t Vodafone

Posted on June 10, 2009 at 8:51 am (UK)
in: Business, Experiences, Mobile, Travel

When I arrived at San Francisco International airport on Saturday after a 10-hour flight from London, I switched on my Nokia N95 8GB mobile phone.
This is my primary phone, on an account with Vodafone UK.
I had a few SMS messages, one of which being a text message from Vodafone advising me of their rates [...]

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