The sadly deceased comedian Dave Allen had a great story about how he got lost driving around rural Ireland and after driving in circles he finally spotted an elderly farmer working at the side of an otherwise deserted road. He pulled up beside him and asked for directions. The farmer looked slowly up and down [...]
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Well we now have six hardy souls from the PR community on the island of Ireland baring their most intimate thoughts through the medium of blogs. Conall McDevitt, managing director of Weber Shandwick in Northern Ireland is now blogging, the first PR blog in the North (as far as I know). In the true spirit [...]
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“Nothing will motivate a blogger to link to a particular blog or article, more than content that supports her or his opinion.” – Murphy’s Law’s Law (first in an occasional series) I, among many others, believe that the changing media landscape will be less revolutionary – certainly in the short-term – than the digerati would [...]
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I have to say I often enjoy reading the fine rants and general insults provided by the UK’s (if not the world’s ahem) best PR curmudgeon: “The World’s Leading…” Today they have an amusing post on how they’re not happy with their growing readership and in fact they are finding that more readers means less quality comments. They’re [...]
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Picture yourself standing in a public space waiting for a friend to arrive. A complete stranger sidles up beside you. He catches your attention and whispers: “Buy Tom Murphy Inc. stock, they’ve just won a major contract.” Then just as quickly the stranger moves to the next person beside you and does the same thing. [...]
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*This post was originally titled: “Practicing how to get lucky” but the more smutty minded among you have kindly informed me that the title may have suggested content unlikely to be found on a part-time Public Relations blog! Success takes time, planning and effort. Success rarely falls into your lap. In the oft-quoted words of [...]
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I think this quote from Herbert Simon, which I have hastily lifted from Mr. Smith’s blog is worth considering today: “What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of [...]
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MyRagan’s fictional blogger Cassandra has a recent diatribe on her dealings with HR which has generated a lot of discussion on the site. The post was well timed because the relationship between PR and HR is something I have been thinking about for some time. However, I think I am coming to it from a different angle! PR [...]
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