Monthly archive: October 2006
Time for a break
Thursday, October 26th, 2006 at 10:12 pm
It’s been a long time coming, but it’s time for a holiday.
Tags: holiday, offline
Categories: General
A very big news conference indeed
Thursday, October 26th, 2006 at 9:56 pm
I’ve been in Paris today at the route launch for the 2007 Tour de France at Le Palais des Congres - definitely the largest news conference I’ve ever attended.
Tags: news+conference, tour+de+france
Categories: Public relations
Crayon launching in Second Life
Wednesday, October 25th, 2006 at 9:58 pm
Just a quick post to wish the best of luck to the founders of Crayon with their official launch in Second Life on Thursday.
Tags: c+c+chapman, crayon, crayonville, joseph+jaffe, neville+hobson, shel+holtz
Categories: Business development, Social media
Making connections with social media
Wednesday, October 25th, 2006 at 9:23 am
Social media is all about making connections. And yesterday once again I experienced this in real life.
Tags: Blogging, for+immediate+release, libby+ranzetta, neville+hobson, Podcasting, public+sector, shel+holtz, social+media
Categories: Blogging, Podcasting, Public relations, Public sector, Social media, Video podcasting
The new marketing for beginners
Wednesday, October 25th, 2006 at 6:54 am
Matthew Stibbe at Bad Language has a great post about new marketing techniques.
Tags: Marketing, matthew+stibbe, new+marketing
Categories: Marketing
IE7 released - RSS goes mainstream
Thursday, October 19th, 2006 at 2:01 pm
Microsoft has today released Internet Explorer 7 for general download.
Tags: ie7, internet+explorer+7, social+media
Categories: Social media, Software
Getting email marketing to the inbox
Thursday, October 19th, 2006 at 7:02 am
Getting your email marketing to the inbox can be a challenge. The Internet Advertising Bureau has just released a great new free guide to doing this successfully.
Tags: deliverability, digital+marketing, email, email+marketing, IAB, internet+advertising+bureau, Marketing
Categories: Email marketing, Marketing
Branding in social media
Tuesday, October 17th, 2006 at 9:06 pm
Brand is one of the most mis-used words in marketing. I’ve been thinking about what affects brand perception in social media.
Tags: Blogging, brand, brand+perception, Branding, RSS, social+media
Categories: Blogging, Branding, RSS, Social media
Edelman goes public on Wal-mart
Monday, October 16th, 2006 at 11:01 pm
Several days on from the original debate around “Wal-marting across America” Richard Edelman and Steve Rubel have posted about Edelman’s involvement.
Tags: Blogging, edelman, public+relations, social+media, wal-mart
Categories: Blogging, Public relations, Social media
Sunday Times on web 2.0 and YouTube
Sunday, October 15th, 2006 at 7:34 am
Today’s UK Sunday Times has a good analysis on the sale of YouTube to Google, including discussion of the copyright issues and some broader commentary on social media.
Tags: google, social+media, sunday+times, you+tube
Categories: News, Social media
Jumping the gun?
Saturday, October 14th, 2006 at 8:35 pm
I’ve been following the outpouring of blog posts about “Wal-marting across America” with interest. Could this be another example of the blogosphere not checking its sources?
Tags: Blogging, constantin+basturea, edelman, herald+group, public+relations, simon+collister, social+media, wal-mart
Categories: Blogging, Public relations, Social media
A different web consultancy project
Saturday, October 14th, 2006 at 7:52 am
The new Medway Primary Care Trust (PCT) website has just launched. The site was designed and build by the team at Netsite, and I acted as website consultant for the folks at the PCT.
Tags: Customer experience, Marketing, medway+council, medway+pct, netsite, Podcasting, Public relations, public+relations, public+sector, Social media, social+media, Web development, web+consultancy
Categories: Customer experience, Marketing, Public relations, Social media, Web development
Top ten tips for a web 2.0 makeover
Thursday, October 12th, 2006 at 8:49 pm
Ian Green’s writing a short piece for Revolution about corporate blogging.
Tags: Blogging, public+relations, tag+warrior
Categories: Blogging, Public relations
Vodafone going into Second Life
Thursday, October 12th, 2006 at 8:05 pm
Marketing Week magazine (UK) confirms that global mobile telecoms firm Vodafone will be launching a presence in Second Life by the end of this year.
Tags: Marketing, Public relations, public+relations, Social media, social+media, vodafone-second+life-social+media
Categories: Marketing, Public relations, Social media
Writely is no more
Wednesday, October 11th, 2006 at 1:01 pm
The Writely service has now been merged with Google’s spreadsheet system to become the imaginatively named “Google Docs & Spreadsheet”.
Tags: Software, web+development
Categories: Software, Web development
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Wednesday, October 11th, 2006 at 9:20 am
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So it’s official - Google and YouTube
Tuesday, October 10th, 2006 at 7:04 am
The deal has been done - Google has picked up YouTube for $1.65m this morning.
Tags: public+relations, social+media
Categories: Public relations, Social media
What is a blog for?
Sunday, October 8th, 2006 at 9:40 pm
Philip Young has been doing some thinking about what a blog actually is for a public relations practitioner.
Tags: Blogging, public+relations, social+media
Categories: Blogging, Public relations, Social media
PR Week this week
Saturday, October 7th, 2006 at 7:33 am
A piece on the front page of PR Week catches my eye with a story headed “Borkowski PRO in celeb email spat”, as well as a short piece inside about outsourcing local government media relations.
Tags: Marketing, News, public+relations, social+media
Categories: Marketing, News, Public relations, Social media, Week in view
Increasing RSS feed subscriptions
Friday, October 6th, 2006 at 10:32 pm
Inspired by a post by Rohit Bhargava I thought I’d try to make it easier for readers of my blog to add the RSS feed to their favourite feedreader and to their preferred social bookmarking site.
Tags: Blogging, Marketing, social+media, web+development, Wordpress
Categories: Blogging, Marketing, Social media, Web development, Wordpress
I’m going to Delivering the New PR
Friday, October 6th, 2006 at 8:49 pm
I’m pleased to say that I’m going to be going to the Delivering the New PR conference in London on Friday, 10 November 2006.
Tags: Blogging, personal+development, Podcasting, public+relations, social+media, video+podcasting
Categories: Blogging, Personal development, Podcasting, Public relations, Social media, Video podcasting
Do the Brits get social media yet?
Thursday, October 5th, 2006 at 9:25 pm
Spotted an interesting discussion about a recent report by Nielson Netratings, which included some insight into awareness of some new-ish technologies or tools like RSS, IPTV, VOD or wikis.
Tags: Marketing, public+relations, social+media
Categories: Marketing, Public relations, Social media
Marketing and PR - two views on social media
Thursday, October 5th, 2006 at 6:37 pm
Last week’s Marketing Week magazine marked a moment of truth for me about how the marketing and PR professions each view social media.
Tags: Marketing, public+relations, social+media
Categories: Marketing, Public relations, Social media
How to monitor news using free tools on the web
Monday, October 2nd, 2006 at 6:07 pm
Alex over at The Bivings Report has posted how you can use a range of free social media tools to monitor online news and coverage.
Tags: Marketing, public+relations, social+media
Categories: Marketing, Public relations, Social media
Beef up your blog feeder
Sunday, October 1st, 2006 at 9:57 pm
A couple of days ago I spotted Steve Rubel posting about how he finds content to blog about - he has created a blog feeder. A new tool from Technorati has increased the potential for such blog feeders.
Tags: social+media
Categories: Social media
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