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Category archive: Events

Don’t Panic Guide to Social Media - presentation

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 at 9:01 am

Last Friday I presented about public sector social media at the Don’t Panic Guide to Social Media conference in London.

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Categories: Blogging, CIPR Diploma, Events, Marketing, Podcasting, Public relations, RSS, Social media, Twitter, Video podcasting

Don’t Panic Guide to Social Media - May 2008

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 at 9:40 pm

I’ll be speaking at the Don’t Panic Guide to Social Media on Friday, 23 May in London.

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Categories: Blogging, CIPR Diploma, Events, Podcasting, Public relations, Public sector, RSS, Social media, Twitter, Video podcasting

Vive le Tour de France!

Sunday, July 8th, 2007 at 11:18 pm

Pictures and videos from the Tour de France in Medway.

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Le Tour de France - it’s finally here

Saturday, July 7th, 2007 at 11:29 pm

It’s been a pretty hectic week, meaning lots of late night working and no time for proper blogging thanks to the arrival of the Tour de France in the UK.

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Categories: Events, Marketing, Public relations, Public sector

Looking back at the CIPR Northern Conference

Friday, June 22nd, 2007 at 2:50 pm

I presented at the CIPR’s Northern Conference in Newcastle yesterday and enjoyed the opportunity to find out about PR in the north-east.

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Categories: Events, Podcasting, Public relations, Public sector, Reviews

Sponsored events - Summer 2007

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007 at 10:44 pm

I always like a challenge, whether it’s at work or in my spare time. This summer I’m cycling 56 miles and running my first marathon for charity.

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Categories: Events, General

Chewing the new PR fat once again

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007 at 9:34 pm

I spent yesterday up in London at a Delivering the New PR conference once again.

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Categories: Blogging, Events, Marketing, Online video, Podcasting, Public relations, RSS, Social media, Twitter, Video podcasting, Web strategy

Delivering the New PR 2.0 in London

Thursday, May 31st, 2007 at 11:19 pm

Next Tuesday 5 June the Delivering the New PR 2.0 conference rolls into London and I’m going.

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Categories: Blogging, Events, Marketing, Podcasting, Public relations, Public sector, Regulations and laws, Social media, Video podcasting

Launching the new London 2012 brand

Thursday, May 31st, 2007 at 9:43 pm

On Monday the new brand for the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics will be unveiled, and you can get a look as soon as it’s unveiled at 11am.

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Categories: Branding, Events, Marketing, Public relations

CIPR Northern Conference

Monday, May 28th, 2007 at 8:20 pm

Next month I’ll be running a workshop session at Northern Conference in Newcastle looking at podcasting in the public sector.

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Categories: Events, Podcasting, Public relations, Public sector, Social media

London conference recommendations

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007 at 5:14 am

A couple of forthcoming conferences in London have caught my eye recently.

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Categories: Events, Marketing, Public relations, Social media

Blogging for business

Thursday, April 19th, 2007 at 10:35 pm

Here’s the outline of my presentation on business blogging that I prepared for the MIPAA bloggers’ brunch.

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Categories: Blogging, Events, Marketing, Public relations, Regulations and laws, Social media

What are the best and worst business blogs you’ve seen?

Monday, April 16th, 2007 at 7:10 am

I’m on a panel tomorrow at an event about blogging. I’m on the lookout for some examples of business blogging and its best and at its worst.

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Categories: Blogging, Events

Exploring word of mouth marketing

Friday, December 1st, 2006 at 9:06 pm

I spent an interesting day today at GREEN Communications’ Word of Mouth conference at the Dental Institute in London.

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Categories: Events, Marketing, Public relations

Word of mouth: making it work

Monday, November 27th, 2006 at 10:18 pm

I’m pleased to say that I’m going to be attending the word of mouth marketing and PR conference up in London this Friday.

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Categories: Events, Marketing, Public relations, Social media

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.

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A presentation by Richard Reed from Innocent

Wednesday, October 19th, 2005 at 9:03 pm

Earlier this evening I went to a talk by Richard Reed, co-founder of “Innocent”:http://www.innocentdrinks.co.uk. Launched in 1998 Innocent sell fruit smoothies in the UK.

I go to this kind of business event fairly often, but I have to say Richard Reed was the most engaging, personable and inspiring speaker I’ve seen.

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Categories: Events, General, Marketing

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