Simon Wakeman - marketing, public relations and digital communications

It’s about people not the technology

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007 at 10:47 pm

Banning access to social networking websites just doesn’t make sense, especially when they’re not the root cause of a perceived problem.

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Categories: Social media

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

Testing the new Windows Live Writer

Friday, June 1st, 2007 at 10:00 pm

This is my first post using the new beta version of Windows Live Writer - an impressive free offline blog editor.

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Categories: Blogging, Software, Wordpress

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

New RSS feed for UK top marketing blogs

Monday, March 26th, 2007 at 12:42 pm

The Todd And list of top marketing blogs lists 17 UK-based marketing blogs, including this one. I’ve created an RSS feed that aggregates content from all these blogs.

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Categories: Blogging, Marketing

Do RSS subscriber figures always go up?

Friday, February 9th, 2007 at 12:31 pm

Tracking RSS subscribers is a way to see how many people are tracking your blog. It’s a great motivation to see RSS subscriber growth and be able to celebrate milestones. But do RSS subscriber figures always go up anyway?

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Categories: Blogging, Public relations, RSS, Social media, Statistics, research and analysis

For Immediate Release

Monday, January 29th, 2007 at 9:55 pm

Yesterday’s post on comparing statistics packages for bloggers has been picked up by podcasters Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz in their For Immediate Release podcast.

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Categories: Blogging, Podcasting, Public relations, Statistics, research and analysis, Wordpress

Introducing house rules

Friday, January 19th, 2007 at 9:47 pm

The vast majority of comments posted on this site have been in the general spirit and values that most blogs hold. However I think it’s about time I posted about how I interpret these values and how I’ll apply them to posts, comments and trackbacks here.

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Categories: Blogging

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.

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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.

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Categories: Blogging, Podcasting, Public relations, Public sector, Social media, Video podcasting

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I blog about marketing, PR and communications, with a focus on new media and how technology can help organisations communicate more effectively.

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