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26 Oct 2006 at 10:12 pm | No comments

It’s been a long time coming, but it’s time for a holiday.

26 Oct 2006 at 9:56 pm | One comment

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.

25 Oct 2006 at 9:58 pm | No comments

Just a quick post to wish the best of luck to the founders of Crayon with their official launch in Second Life on Thursday.

25 Oct 2006 at 9:23 am | One comment

Social media is all about making connections. And yesterday once again I experienced this in real life.

25 Oct 2006 at 6:54 am | No comments

Matthew Stibbe at Bad Language has a great post about new marketing techniques.

19 Oct 2006 at 2:01 pm | No comments

Microsoft has today released Internet Explorer 7 for general download.

19 Oct 2006 at 7:02 am | No comments

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.

17 Oct 2006 at 9:06 pm | No comments

Brand is one of the most mis-used words in marketing. I’ve been thinking about what affects brand perception in social media.

16 Oct 2006 at 11:01 pm | One comment

Several days on from the original debate around “Wal-marting across America” Richard Edelman and Steve Rubel have posted about Edelman’s involvement.

15 Oct 2006 at 7:34 am | No comments

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.

14 Oct 2006 at 8:35 pm | One comment

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?

14 Oct 2006 at 7:52 am | No comments

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.

12 Oct 2006 at 8:49 pm | No comments

Ian Green’s writing a short piece for Revolution about corporate blogging.

12 Oct 2006 at 8:05 pm | No comments

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.

11 Oct 2006 at 1:01 pm | One comment

The Writely service has now been merged with Google’s spreadsheet system to become the imaginatively named “Google Docs & Spreadsheet”.

11 Oct 2006 at 9:20 am | No comments

Periodical marketing
Information about advertising in magazines and periodicals.
(tags: marketing)

10 Oct 2006 at 7:04 am | No comments

The deal has been done – Google has picked up YouTube for $1.65m this morning.

8 Oct 2006 at 9:40 pm | No comments

Philip Young has been doing some thinking about what a blog actually is for a public relations practitioner.

7 Oct 2006 at 7:33 am | 2 comments

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.

6 Oct 2006 at 10:32 pm | No comments

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.

6 Oct 2006 at 8:49 pm | 5 comments

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.

5 Oct 2006 at 9:25 pm | 2 comments

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.

5 Oct 2006 at 6:37 pm | 4 comments

Last week’s Marketing Week magazine marked a moment of truth for me about how the marketing and PR professions each view social media.

2 Oct 2006 at 6:07 pm | 2 comments

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.

1 Oct 2006 at 9:57 pm | No comments

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.