It’s accepted that we are all incredibly busy these days. We’re rushing around, juggling plans, meetings, calls, issues, projects and to-do lists – not to mention e-mail and Twitter. It’s very easy to keep your head down and plough on. It is however – in my humble opinion -incredibly important to stop on a regular [...]
Here are a selection of links to some interesting content I found during my most recent attempt to review all my RSS feeds… Public Relations & Media Content PR Agency pitches.. I missed this, but fascinating discussion nonetheless. In the UK, following an agency pitch process, confused.com decided to pay some of the unsuccessful [...]
Tags: Agency
My (relatively) recent resolution to maintain my social media consumption and production, has waned in the past couple of weeks. The usual excuses; lots to do; busy at work; busy at home… I spent the weekend with family and friends only wasting fleeting moments checking work e-mail to make sure all was well with the [...]
Tags: Personal
As a communications profession we all (I hope) invest a lot of time and energy thinking about effective communications and how best to reach and engage with audiences. While traditional media remains incredibly important, there’s clearly a lot of focus on how social media is also impacting communications. So what about mobile? The “Did you [...]
Tags: Mobile
Following Jon Snow’s interesting talk about how the media is changing, another venerable TV journalist, this time on the other side of the Atlantic, has shared his views on how the consumption of media is changing. Speaking at a Poynter Institute for Media Studies event earlier in the week, Ted Koppel bemoaned the trend towards [...]
Tags: Media
During a meeting earlier this week I spotted a well thumbed copy of Eats, Shoots & Leaves on an office book shelf. This discovery sparked an enjoyable conversation on the power of language. Of course if you’re working in Public Relations then language is occupational currency. Later in the week I was absent mindedly browsing [...]
If you viewed Jon Snow’s talk you’ll know that he gave a fascinating insight into the changes that have taken place in the media over the past couple of decades. Of course it continues apace. I haven’t seen a lot of noise in the PR blogosphere on this, but I thought Facebook’s set up of [...]
Tags: Public Relations·Social Media
If you live in the UK and Ireland, you know Jon Snow, the popular UK journalist and broadcaster, very well. During a recent visit to Ireland, the Institute of International and European Affairs hosted Jon for a talk he gave on the impact of new media. He discusses his start in the media business and [...]
Tags: Media
At the risk of appearing (to the digerati at any rate) as something resembling a father dancing at his teenager’s party, can I ask a question? The question concerns the current online nom-de-jour: “lifestreaming”. Now stop me if I’m wrong here – and it wouldn’t be the first time – but a Lifestream is just [...]
Tags: He would say that
When we think about how companies are using social media, we typically look at the big players, but I love to hear how small, local companies are using it. I find it’s a great way to get my tired brain firing on how I think about the potential of social media. I was in downtown [...]
Tags: Twitter