I blame my grandmother. She loved providing real-time feedback on my grammar and her favorite was the difference between ‘off’ and ‘from’. If I innocently reported to her that I had received something off someone, she would immediately respond that “you get fleas off people, but you get things from them”. Indeed. While I am [...]
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Here are some personal picks from my most recent trawl of the RSS feeds… What is PR? OK this is late (from last February) but worth a listen. It’s a podcast from the BBC World Service program The Bottom Line, with some well known PR executives having a lively discussion on what Public Relations is. [...]
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Yesterday Mike Arrington posted a story about a start-up who later this week will be launching a service that’s effectively a Yelp for individuals. Mr. Arringtron asks if – with the launch of these services, along with the growth of personal data online – we need to become more accepting of people’s indiscretions. It’s a [...]
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Communitelligence has re-posted Joanna Lund’s answer to a LinkedIn question on what traits does a PR/Communications professional need to thrive in a corporate environment. Worth a Friday read. One she doesn’t list is rest. We all need rest. So I’m off for a week’s vacation (or holiday for those of you in Europe) to the [...]
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Well a month has passed since I arrived in the United States. Here is a meek attempt at a catch up. You may find some interesting stuff here. America’s traditional media challenges continue In case you missed it, the Pew Research Center has published the 2009 edition of their “State of the News Media” an [...]
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It’s been a while. I hope you haven’t been too sad while I’ve been away. I guess not. Well, week two in Seattle is nearly complete. The great thing for an Irish person moving to Seattle is that it’s pretty easy to acclimate… we get lots of “soft days” here as well One thing that [...]
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I was catching up on my RSS and podcasts consumption when I found myself getting very stressed. Listening to “For Immediate Release” (Episode #341) there was a listener comment from Mitch Joel, who raised the issue of how are we supposed to manage all this information, links, networks etc. Mitch used Twitter as an illustration: [...]
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A busy July, what’s that all about? Why isn’t everyone off on holidays? Facebook’s rapid adoption among us old (>30 it appears) people continues. I enjoyed this WSJ story via Kevin Dugan… the mortification of your old thirty-something boss hanging out in Facebook… of course our revenge is the job interview… hahahaha… or maybe not. Stuart [...]
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There’s a drinks company in Europe that has the slogan “nothing added but time”. The inference of course being that time, is the most valuable element of all. Time, it could be argued, is the single most important element when considering the impact of Web 2.0. Time is scarce and incredibly valuable, and as our world continues to move [...]
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Apologies for the radio blog silence. Travel, work and parenting has been keeping me pre-occupied recently. I think I am beginning to suffer from SONIDS, a very new condition I’ve just named. I am wondering is it just me who has multiple orphaned social networking and application accounts? At risk of ruining my already flagging [...]
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