Simon Wakeman - marketing, public relations and digital communications

Monthly archive: June 2006

Guy Kawasaki’s feed - lapsing

Friday, June 30th, 2006 at 9:24 am

Among the feeds I read regularly is Signum sine tinnitu by Guy Kawasaki. It looks this morning like something has gone a bit wrong with Guy’s Feedburner feed.

Tags: public+relations, social+media, web+development
Categories: Public relations, Social media, Web development

Tips for better events and launches

Friday, June 30th, 2006 at 9:19 am

I seem to have spent a lot of time recently organising launch events for clients. Reflecting on the way home from one such event I thought it would be useful to put together some basic ground rules for organising media and/or stakeholder events.

Tags: Events, public+relations
Categories: Events, Public relations

Going off-topic

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006 at 8:25 am

Yesterday I started writing a post about the London to Brighton bike ride that I did at the weekend. However I stopped halfway through, as I was questioning whether that kind of thing was really what my blog readers would value.

Tags: public+relations, social+media
Categories: Public relations, Social media

Bad experience with my new digital SLR

Friday, June 16th, 2006 at 11:04 pm

A fortnight or so ago I got a brand new Nikon D50 digital SLR from the Jessops store in Bluewater. Returning from a week-long holiday today I was gutted to find that of 326 images I’d taken with the new kit, 151 were corrupted and can’t be read.

Tags: customer+experience, General
Categories: Customer experience, General

Comments featured on FIR #143

Tuesday, June 6th, 2006 at 9:00 pm

For Immediate Release is a twice weekly podcast covering PR and communications. Yesterday’s show included a discussion of my comments sent to the FIR team.

Tags: public+relations, social+media
Categories: Public relations, Social media