PR Blogger com

Warning: Self congratulatory post coming. Just realised it’s been over two years since I registered the prblogger.com domain name and began to blog. So 401 posts and 1,129 comments later and in a David Brain style, here are few blog posts I’ve written that I think are alright.

PR before the Internet. A long process?
A question I asked in October 2005. Happy to say it’s been repeating once or twice in presentations given by Tom Murphy.

Tip: Get to know your feeds better.
I’m still terrible with names so it’s a rule I still apply to all my feeds and it works brilliantly.

Tip: Increase your social sphere.
Another tip. Something I try to adhere to but it’s hard when all the PR content I read is too good.

Researching? Choose Firefox.
Firefox is the ultimate browser. I still use many of the addons, engines and bookmarklets I linked to in this post. Although now I use more; maybe I’ll do an update soon.

University of Sunderland Blog Conference - Result!
My first blog conference held at the University of Sunderland and organised by my ex lecturer Philip Young. This conference is still going strong and I popped into the most recent one held in London last week.

Relevant, recycled online news.
Something I’ll use in the new job no doubt.

An introductory guide to PR blogging.
Title says it all really.

12 steps to a successful PR campaign.
In terms of traffic this has been my most successful post. Written in June 2006 with last comment received in April 2007.

Open (finds, minds, conversations)
First time I came across Antony Mayfield’s blog. Been an avid reader ever since.

The importance of crisis management.
Yep, still important.

Blog crisis communications.
So is this one increasingly too.

Using social media in crisis comms.
And this one.

Stepping out of the box.
One of my first blog posts - as the text layout from the old design reflects this - ended up having a drink with Andy Green a couple of weeks ago at the Don’t Panic Guide to Crisis Communications.

Eight PR moblog hacks .
I went through a bit of an infatuation with moblogging.

Moblog UK.
When I first met Alfie.

ITV Digital Conference - panel transcript.
Really enjoyed that day thanks to Ben Ayers.

New blog design - PR Blogger 2.0.
The introduction of my current blog design.

$100 laptop is nigh.
Still think this is great.

Grunig & Hunt’s 4 models of PR and blogging practices.
This is me making a poor attempt to become a theorist. Heh! It’s just made me laugh reading it back.

My top five social media tools.
Ooh, I have many more in the toolbox now!

7 ways to improve a blog’s SEO.
Still learning bits of SEO as I go along.

UK100 bloggers.
I thought this was a pretty decent post if I do say so myself. There was little discussion about the state of the UK blogosphere and this helped chug it along a little. It took a lot of time and research!

5 tips for being a great PR consultant.
A great open source question which received some sound advice.

edelman.mobi launched.
Pretty proud of playing a part in developing the world’s first PR agency mobile website.

Book review: Paul Arden.
Great book. Takes about 20 mins to read.

Online brand monitoring takes time and effort.
Yes sir, it sure does.

Tracking the conversation globally and locally.
A pioneering exercise if ever there was one.

Innocent Drinks rock.
I think they do although Simon Wakeman isn’t so sure.

And that’s it I think. The rest is just utter drivel.