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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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An anti-Outlook groundswell that’s hard to ignore

Posted on June 24, 2009 at 12:42 pm (UK)
in: Communication, Marketing, Public Relations, Reputation, Social Media, Social Networks, Software, Twitter, Web

It’s a hot topic, it involves a product many people hate, and it’s from a company that many love to hate.
It’s about Outlook, the ubiquitous Windows application from Microsoft for email, contacts, calendar, etc, a new version of which is coming next year.
Therein lie the issues, say the people behind Fixoutlook.org, centered on Microsoft’s [...]

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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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12 questions before you do that PR pitch

Posted on June 21, 2009 at 2:08 pm (UK)
in: Communication, Experiences, Public Relations

Love this plea by BL Ochman to PR people: “Please take this quiz before you send out another press release or email pitch.”

Has the print, online or broadcast reporter you are pitching ever covered this topic?
Would this pitch or release elicit a response from people who read it?
Is this pitch or release bullshit?
Would anyone pass [...]

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The ridicule of Parliament

Posted on June 20, 2009 at 2:23 pm (UK)
in: Advertising, Communication, Humour, Mainstream Media, Marketing, Politics, Public Relations, Reputation, Society

This morning, I picked up a copy of today’s Daily Telegraph, the edition of the paper that includes “The Complete Expenses Files,” a 68-page report detailing the revelations about MPs’ expenses that the paper has been publishing every day for the past month or so.
The first thing that struck me about this large-sized document [...]

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MPs expenses: How to save £91 a week

Posted on June 20, 2009 at 8:10 am (UK)
in: Mainstream Media, Online Media, Politics, Public Relations, Reputation, Society

Earlier this week, the government published the details of expenses claimed by Members of Parliament.
Plenty has been talked about during the past few months in relation to MPs’ expenses, not the least of which has been the ongoing scoop by The Daily Telegraph in exposing some truly extraordinary behaviours by our elected representatives (the [...]

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The News Release in the Social Media Era: Shel Holtz’s IABC presentation

Posted on June 12, 2009 at 7:00 am (UK)
in: For Immediate Release, IABC, Public Relations, Social Media

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Content summary: Shel Holtz was part of the "All-Star" track at the annual world conference of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC), presenting on the role of the news release in the social media era on June 9, 2009. The talk covered both the traditional news release and the social media release.
Both audio and [...]

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Twitter as a public service

Posted on June 3, 2009 at 8:25 am (UK)
in: Communication, Innovation, Public Relations, Social Media, Society, Trends, Twitter, Web

What a great initiative announced yesterday by the city of San Francisco – enable citizens to use Twitter as one of the means through which they can use the city’s 311 online information and services network.
[…] you will be establishing a two-way communication channel which can be used to send direct (private) messages to [...]

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Making the European elections visible

Posted on June 1, 2009 at 8:11 am (UK)
in: Communication, Europe, Politics, Public Relations, Society, Twitter, Web

I was thinking about the elections to the European Parliament coming up later this week and the fact that the only information I’ve received about them have been flyers through the letterbox from particular political parties.
Hardly impartial (and no pretence to be), so getting general information – including details of who all the candidates [...]

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Audio sharing and growing pains

Posted on May 26, 2009 at 7:24 am (UK)
in: Blogging, Business, Communication, Experiences, Mobile, Podcasting, Public Relations, Social Media, Social Networks, Software, Web

The Guardian had a good story yesterday about Audioboo, the audio-sharing service (and social network) that I started using in March.
Audioboo is primarily an iPhone app where you record up to five minutes of audio that the app uploads to your space on the Audioboo website and publishes it online.
Since starting in March, Audioboo [...]

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