Category Archives: pr
General Geekery
Whilst Suw is on ‘blogging sick leave’ I’ve been geeking out with a guest post over at Kits and Mortar. I wanted to write about cats, GPS and stuff and it turned into a rather lengthy post. The first of a few I hope, thanks Suw! It’s really funny though to be blogging away from [...]
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Rise of the micro-agency continues
Today Stephen Davies (aka PRblogger.com) joins the growing list of former agency digital PR peeps to launch their own specialist agencies/consultancies with new venture 3WPR. I did the same in March this year with Shed and I haven’t looked back since. Yes, it’s a bit scary and strange at first but you soon get [...]
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Get on with TechCrunch UK
Amongst all the PR bashing that’s going on right now, Mike Butcher over at Techcrunch UK (which unbelievably this blog was shortlisted alongside in the Computer Weekly Blog Awards web 2.0/business category which Mike deservedly won in the end) has posted this incredibly useful list of pointers for PR peeps to help increase their chances [...]
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A tool to help fix PR?
Pitchspace is featured today on the Guardian Tech podcast and also over on pda in more detail. Over to Jemima to explain:
The idea is to offer a platform for PRs and journalists. PRs seed stories and releases, and journalists can pick up the stories they like and use Pitchspace to organise the material for that [...]
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Facing the reality of PR perception on the web: Revisited
Yesterday I spoke to Anthony about PR FAIL and again, it made me ask myself if I was being too harsh with this post and setting up PR FAIL. I thought about it for a while and then decided, nope, I’m not – I’m just trying to make it easier for people to face up [...]
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Facing the reality of PR perception on the web
UPDATE – I’ve created PR Fail as a way to help people face the reality of the perception of PR on the web, be better and stop doing bad things. A ’see what happens’ thing.
UPDATE 2/6 – it’s still going on and this time there’s accusations flying around about the integrity of the [...]
Also posted in thoughts, twitter 6 Comments
Future of PR – debate goes on
Please read this if you work in PR. Will, great post. Sure it will stir up some debate. Once I’ve read and digested thoroughly I’ll most likely comment direct. It’s great to hear someone laying it down as thy see it.
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The word farms of the web
A great article by Danny Bradbury published on the Guardian yesterday – “The growing number of websites that mix and match low-quality articles produced by amateurs in order to generate traffic is causing concern”. PR, SEO and online advertising are mixing quicker than ever before and we’re having to get even more technically literate to [...]
Also posted in advertising, digital, media 1 Comment
Good “blogger relations” advice
From Iain over at crackunit.com, an awesome blog that I probably link to way too much. It’s just really rather very good and Iain just gets it. Simple as that. Subscribe now.
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Meme Non-Response Guilt (MNRG)