Anyone who has ever been a Scout will recall the big range of crafts you could learn from an early age. I was a Scout (in fact, an Air Scout) in my pre-teens, and I have hazy memories of troop meetings, camping trips and jamborees. I also remember acquiring levels…
Overflow from today’s FIR #309: 1-Minute News 2008: A change-or-die year for journalism? Beware the social media hoax Download FIR Cuts MP3 – Journalism (13:09). If you want to automatically receive FIR Cuts as they’re published, subscribe to the RSS feed. (What are FIR Cuts?)
Content summary: New FIR Interview with ex-FEMA Pat Philbin posted; upcoming FIR Interview with Forrester Research; CIPR event at the House of Lords; update on the FIR Listener Contest; Dan York reports on addressing online attacks on your business and reputation; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; British Airways announces…
I met up with Euan Semple this afternoon for a coffee and a chat. We talked about things of common interest. What companies are doing with social media. How people are using social media. What’s happening in tech. And related topics. Euan has an iPhone. Here he shows it off…
British Airways announced the forthcoming launch of a new airline yesterday, and launched a blog to go along with it. British Airways is planning to launch its new US-EU subsidiary airline "OpenSkies" with daily flights from New York to Brussels and Paris. The airline will launch in June 2008 with…
If you’re interested in using video in your communication plans but don’t really know where to start – what equipment to get or what software you’ll need – three excellent articles published today on Journalism.co.uk will give you some clear pointers. Written by Andy Dickinson, who teaches digital and online…
One of the bigger PR news stories of 2007 involved a press conference staged by the Federal Emergency Management Agency in October to address the California wildfires. FEMA’s External Affairs Director John "Pat" Philbin was slated to take a new position as Public Affairs Director for the Director of National…
As any podcaster knows, the barriers to entry for starting a podcast are very low. As I often like to describe it, all you need to get going are five things: A computer A microphone Free recording and editing software Somewhere to store and share the audio files Some imagination…
