Posted on February 1, 2010 at 8:37 am (UK)
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Did you know that Thursday January 28 was Data Privacy Day, an annual event celebrated in the United States, Canada, the UK and 26 other European countries?
No, I didn’t either. Its aim is to raise awareness for consumers around privacy issues.
One of the sponsors of Data Privacy Day is Microsoft who commissioned research in [...]
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Last week’s trip to Dublin was a terrific experience.
The workshop on social media and public relations I ran for the Public Relations Institute of Ireland – formally known as ‘New Media for Seasoned Professionals’ – on Thursday was a full day of listening and learning for everyone including me.
One thing I thoroughly enjoy, and [...]
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I’ll be in Dublin later this week, leading “New media for seasoned professionals,” a workshop for the Public Relations Institute of Ireland on social media and PR, on Thursday. This will be the third one I’ve done for the PRII during the past few years.
It’s always a great pleasure visiting Ireland. Over the years, [...]
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The 6th annual New Communications Forum conference takes place in San Mateo, California, USA, from April 20-23.
Event organizer Jen McClure and the organizing team have created a superb framework for learning under the theme “The Social Web: Redefining Business.”
Here’s what you’ll get:
40 conference sessions in five tracks: – NewComm [...]
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Last month, Kerry Bridge and I organized and hosted the Dell B2B Social Media Huddle, a one-day event at Dell UK’s headquarters that attracted more than 50 people from across the UK.
Some came to listen, some to talk, others to present stories of their experiences or thinking regarding social media in a business-to-business context.
One [...]
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I spent most of the first week of December in Las Vegas, meeting with all my colleagues in the WeissComm Group. I joined WCG in October so other than a handful of colleagues, I hadn’t met any of them in the USA, where 90+% of them are, until this trip.
From the business and professional [...]
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Plans for the Dell B2b Social Media Huddle, taking place on December 7, are almost complete.
My co-organizer Kerry Bridge and I are expecting over 70 people to take part in this one-day mixed conference and unconference at Dell’s UK headquarters in Bracknell.
As part of our overall prep, we asked participants to take a short [...]
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A bit of a dramatic headline, perhaps, but Sin City aka Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, is where I’m headed on Sunday morning on a Virgin Atlantic flight where I’ll be for most of next week, back here in the UK on Thursday morning.
It’s been a few years since I was last in Vegas. Each [...]
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I agree with Stephen Waddington: if you’re in PR in the UK, Econsultancy’s Social Media and Online PR Report is essential reading.
I’ve not yet read the detailed report, published earlier this week, just scanned through the extract freely available on Econsultancy’s website. Plus I’ve absorbed some of the commentary posted by PR influencers such as [...]
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Monitoring and ROI are two hot topics when it comes to social media. They’re two of the hottest topics for an event focused on social media, and there is one taking place in London on Tuesday November 17, where I’ll be as a speaker and panel discussion facilitator.
Monitoring Social Media 09 is organized by [...]

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