Not All Content is King
As PR communicators we need to be very careful about content. PR people have a tendency to feel that if something is published then our goals have been achieved. The ease with which things can now...
View ArticleThe ‘WherethehellisMatt’ Meme
Matt Harding is from Connecticut and in his thirties. He was a computer games developer who quit his job in February 2003, to go travelling. Several months into a trip through Asia a travel...
View ArticleThis Week’s Best of the Blogs #2
1. PR MEDIA BLOG – Will Twitter Do the Business? Upfront PRMB is the Staniforth blog, where I work, but this is a guest post from Phil Jones, the Sales and Marketing Director at Brother (not a client)....
View ArticleWeb ‘to go’– Blogging on the Train
I am writing this blog post from the discomfort of a hot train carriage en route from Grantham to Manchester. Why do you need to know that? The answer is quite simply that you don’t. My point is...
View ArticleUS Flu Cases Head Off the Scale
In April when the media went into overdrive about swine flu, I posted that there was scant evidence that the pandemic had taken hold in the US. The situation was unclear but there was evidence that...
View ArticleWho the Fuck are Arctic Monkeys?
Arctic Monkeys were hailed as the musical standard bearers of the web 2.0 generation. True, their MySpace presence was part of the package that propelled them to rock stardom but they have always...
View ArticleTop 10 Web Wonders of the Decade #10
As we draw to the end of the zeroes (sounds so much better than naughties surely?), this blog is counting down the ‘PR and the Social Web’ top ten wonders of the internet, brought to us over the last...
View ArticleTop 10 Web Wonders of the Decade #6
Number 6: Wikipedia Launched in 2001 Wikipedia only just makes the list of web wonders of the ‘Noughties’. It will celebrate its ninth birthday in just eleven days time. However in a period spanning...
View ArticleCIPR Digital Impact Conference – 24 May
There is a great digital PR conference lined up at the CIPR in London next week which I’m thrilled to be taking part in. It takes place next Monday 24th May at the CIPR HQ in Russell Square, WC1....
View ArticleCrowd Sourced Gig Video – The National
Last week I made the trip from my native Manchester all the way to Edinburgh for a gig. The National is Brooklyn based an indie rock band formed in Cincinnati, Ohio and despite a series of European...
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