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October 2008
September 2008
- CIPR Northern Conference 08
- Is online PR losing its real definition?
- Tomorrow’s fish & chip paper?
- Show Him Numbers
- Crowd Surfing launched
- Say hello to 3W PR
August 2008
June 2008
- World Public Relations Festival
- The top brands in social media
- It’s easy to be critical
- Berocca: Stress relief for bloggers
- Global balance of media power shifting
- BBC’s link love
- CIPR’s SMNR for the World PR Conference & Festival
- Information overload in the Knowledge Economy
- Doctors untrustworthy of the web
- Europeans increasingly heart the mobile web
- UK internet users increasingly heart blogs
- TWL is back. So are the Flackenhacks (maybe)
- Internet primary news source in five years
May 2008
April 2008
- PROpenMic: Pros, teachers & students unite
- Innocent gets Twitter wrong
- List of mobile news sites
- Facebook: the lobbying boiling pot (Part II)
- Don’t Panic Guide to social media
March 2008
- Job goin’ at Cake
- Vote for us!
- A few ideas to improve Twitter
- SM milestone: Oldest blog turns 10
- The SEO benefits of blogger outreach
- List of UK PR student bloggers
- Two things
- Tweeters: Stop spamming my Facebook!
- The Twitter Effect
- List of YouTube Brand Channels
- Where are all the student PR bloggers?
February 2008
- MCWS - Future of mobile & online content
- Xda Orbit 2 review
- O2 Xda Orbit 2
- Media Content World Summit: London
- SMNR features comparison
- Facebook: the lobbying boiling pot
- Straight from the hack’s mouth
- The Chinese internet
January 2008
- Edelman release 2008 Trust Barometer survey
- Recession looms, PR is doomed
- Corporate social responsibility in the Economist
- It’s those little things…
- PR Career 3.0 (2015 - ?)
- Eight things you didn’t know about me (meme)
December 2007
- My week in media
- Don’t Panic Guide to Crisis Comms
- Analyse your FeedBurner feeds better
- Couple-o-things
November 2007
- Newspaper revenues saved by India…
- BizDays: Bucharest
- So I joined Twitter
- Pretty city
- Cheap christmas shopping
- Mixed media
October 2007
- PR Week articles feature comment section
- Good night at the Flackenhacks
- e-consultancy’s social media briefing
- Dos and don’ts for digi natives
- The growing European internet
- SMNR & RSS
- Link-o-licious
- Global PR Blog Week 3.0 - Brits required
- Nielsen research confirms Edelman and Forrester
- Social media ‘friendly’ releases
- Lost in New York
September 2007
- Who’s going to the Flackenhacks?
- Engage or die (trying)
- New social network for marketing professionals
- PR books to read
- Big Picture PR*
- O2 Cocoon
- e-consultancy online PR roundtable
- Interview: Keith Childs, GM Europe
- Missing the opportunity
- Blu-ray all the way
August 2007
- Friday funtime: SMNR outtakes
- Feedback from the online PR survey results
- Brothels update
- PR people shouldn’t do brothels
- PR manager job going at Openads
- Similarities between Innocent Drinks and Geek Squad
- Our social media news release video
- Top five social media tools revisited
- Interview: talkToshiba
- Bit of this bit of that
- Facebook security flaw found
- Absolutely stunning piece of wildlife footage
- Who reads this blog?
- This, that and the other
July 2007
- Human content aggregators
- Tips on creating a successful presentation
- SMNR update
- webitpr’s Social Media News Release for Converseon
- I didn’t get the memo telling me blogging was dead
- Fortune 100 Brand Index, Google and Wikipedia
- FTSE100 Brand Index, Google and Wikipedia
- Shiny Media’s Blogs and Brands
- Toshiba Tecra A8 blogger outreach programme
- The UK social media scene
June 2007
- Your ‘about’ page is important
- Loving links
- webitpr launches version of the Social Media News Release
- TechCrunch is bigger than the Sun Online
- Scanning
- YouTube goes local
- Good day out at the Northern Conference
- CIPR Northern Conference
- Two (and a bit) years on…
- Digital marketing taking over the mainstream
- This can’t be a stunt… Can it?
- Couple of links
- Customer marketing 2.0
- I’m going home
- Ex FHM editor tells all
- I like it
- Yoosk
- Not all blogs matter. Part II
- Facebook brings tagging to the masses
- 20 things you probably know about London
May 2007
- Who do you believe?
- MyJet & EasySpace
- If you just build it doesn’t mean they’ll come
- The UK needs a Consumerist
- Redbull - first brand on Facebook’s new platform
- Blogs, brands, SEO and Wikipedia
- How many relationships can one man have?
- A new PR blog
- Don’t Panic Guide to Crisis Comms
- Innocent still innocent?
- Bye bye Blair
April 2007
- Not all blogs matter
- Protect your brand’s domain?
- Nothing to say
- A few things…
- I have a new job
- e-consultancy’s PR Briefing
- April Fool fun
- My fragmented news consumption
March 2007
- Three’s X-Series is a media disruptor
- Youngie goes to New York
- 7 ways to improve a blog’s SEO
- ITV Digital Conference - panel transcript
- ITV Digital Conference - Dr Jim Purbrick, Linden Labs
- ITV Digital Conference - Ben Hammersley
- ITV Digital Conference - Jay Stevens, MySpace
- ITV Digital Conference - Gerd Leonhard
- ITV new media conference
- Social networks are becoming smaller
- Your online legacy. Good thing or bad thing?
- Twitter. I don’t get it
February 2007
- Online/offline news blur
- Online/offline entertainment blur
- Downing Street spurred by online “success”
- edelman.mobi launched
- Using social media in crisis comms
- Ten news sites for your mobile
- Chelsea FC move into YouTube
- This and that
January 2007
- Someone’s ripping my design: Part II
- The newspaper bites back
- Innocent Drinks rock
- Edelman grad blog launched
- Relevant, recycled online news
- $100 laptop is nigh
December 2006
November 2006
- Star Wars Kid
- CIPR careers day
- Borkowski/YouTube… Hmm
- Euroblog 2007
- Five tips for being a great PR consultant?
October 2006
- New Edelman grad site launched
- UK100 bloggers
- RSS on your TV
- Yesterday’s Edelman/Technorati conference
- Tracking the conversation globally and locally
September 2006
- Delivering the new PR: London, Fri 10 November
- Let’s get rid of RSS
- Get past the excitement of the shiny and new
August 2006
- When a PR agency partners with a media company
- Thoughts on Gmail’s domain hosting
- How Web 2.0 is your newspaper?
- Online brand monitoring takes time and effort
July 2006
- Has there ever been a better time to work in PR?
- Dell rocks
- My top five social media tools
- UK/US PR blog year-on-year numbers
- New job, new location, new life
- This is a post from guilt
June 2006
- Use celebrity endorsement at your peril
- PR bloggers: Can you Digg em?
- 12 steps to a successful PR campaign
- Rubel is bigger than PR Week UK
- Revisiting moblogging
- What does the future hold for the regional press?
- Making sense of stats
May 2006
- CIPR president blog launched
- The government is monitoring the value of blogs
- Some thoughts on the LG blogger relations campaign
- Radio 1 moves in to Second Life
- YouTube’s mobile uploading
- Someone’s ripping my design
- The world in 2006
- Will the real PR Strumpette please stand up?
- BlueSecurity: Saviour or Satan?
April 2006
- Humbled
- The UK needs a Spinfluencer
- Off to London
- AllPeers beta released - invites available
- UK online advertising “explosion”
- Corporate or employee blogging. Which is best?
- 7% of UK music bought through a mobile service
- Tip: Increase your social sphere
- PR Business 1 - 0 PR Week
March 2006
- The importance of crisis management
- Tip: Get to know your feeds better
- Book review: Paul Arden
- Happy birthday Wet Feet PR
- PR Week gets down with the kids
- Orange challenging Blackberry perhaps?
- Paypal goes mobile
- An interview with BBC Radio 4
- Why isn’t Hollywood embracing Web 2.0?
- Is Google experimenting with their search page?
- PR websites shouldn’t “suck”
- del.icio.us goes all private
- PocketCaster - the mobile video broadcaster
- Things that make me go “Mmm”
- The Sun + MySpace = MySun
- You know you’re attached to your blog when…
- PR Week’s blogging feature
- Not for profit blogging
- The press release is dead. Long live the ‘news’ release
- Press release 2.0
February 2006
- Mobile data speeds are increasing. PR should act now
- New Video iPod pic exposed as a fake
- Researching? Choose Firefox
- Eight PR moblog hacks…
- Moblog advertising?
- The nationals’ year on year circulations
- Too many feeds and not enough time
- Moblog UK
- Warner’s using Shozu
- Kodak camera ideal for mobloggers
- Made the news once again
- An introductory guide to PR blogging
- Blog crisis communications
- Four things….or should it be eight?
- The ghost of Internet future
- New blog design - PR Blogger 2.0
- Tester from mobley
- Pic of my screen
- Test from mobile
- Moblog Test
- Random questions
January 2006
- Skype with top tunes
- Media briefing with the MediaGuardian
- NUJ release citizen journalism code
- Guy Kawasaki podcast interview
- Football stars start to blog
- What’s up with Technorati?
- Video blog with Google
- Should presenting be an art to practice?
- Best agency
- The Duchess of Northumberland
- Best use of photography, design and new media
- Best consumer campaign
- Best use of media relations
- PRide Awards North East
- New blog worth keeping an eye on
- All the news is fit to know
- Create RSS without a blog
- The Long Tail book is nigh
- Research shows the UK has an appetite for mobile TV
- Kensington laptop lock. The new Kryptonite?
- North East PRide Awards
- New UK PR blog - a student too!
- Sky launches first ever news video podcasting service
- ITN are releasing their archives
- test post
- UK national newspaper RSS feeds
- Instant messaging 2.0
- iTunes music store RSS generator
- A call for measurement to push the PR profession forward
- Coffee woes of a blogging journalist
- Yahoo! Podcasts now supports video blogs
- Yet another moblog test
- Tony Blair starts video blogging
- The mobile way for the youth of today
- Video iPod attachment - now this does look interesting!
- The music industry is beginning to use Web 2.0
- Omega 3 - brain food for thought
December 2005
- All the best for 2006
- Googlewood
- The Sage and Tyne Bridge
- Rollyo: A powerful research and monitoring tool
- All the best & a……
- Opera Mini mobile browser released
- King Kong - what a movie!
- ShoZu - the mobile Flickr uploader
- Kate Moss’ new contract
- The first use of a Video iPod in a PR campaign
- UK soon to be the high-speed Internet capital of Europe
- ‘Making The News’ on the road
- What’s up with TypePad?
- Black Eyed Peas are mob video blogging
- Bush’s iPod endorsement
- Forbes picks up the Thomas Hawk/PriceRitePhoto story
- BBC News release 80 iconic and memorable news clips
- Attack of the spam
- Global languages for a global PR
- Durham Cathedral
- Video blog test
- Mobile web 2.0
- Podcast aggregator for Smartphone
- BBC political editor starts blogging
- Pitching the wrong blogger: A solution?
- Starbucks: no frills but effective
- Alliance & Leicester press release update - oh yeah blame PR
- Becareful who you target releases at
- North East band Maximo Park start a moblog
- MySpace grows 609% in a year
- 10 Reasons to publish to mobile
- Blogger “destroys” business
- Audacious Communications is launched
- The most bizarre blog I’ve ever seen
- Why I’ve quit my PR job
- PubSub has a new number 1
- Firefox 1.5 released out of beta. But really it shouldn’t have
November 2005
- The Guardian is starting a podcast
- PR Week: PR and the media - a one day conference
- Open (finds, minds, conversations)
- It’s a cold day
- New North East PR blog
- Should the GM blog address layoffs?
- Microsoft - the world’s most repected company
- moblog test
- Tools to get the job done
- Yet more tips on writing content for your blog
- University of Sunderland Blog Conference - Result!
October 2005
- Which brain are you?
- Using RSS to shop
- PR Blogger goes mobile
- Perso-professional PR bloggers
- The power of a speech
- What do you contribute to the PR team?
- PR before the Internet. A long process?
- Another WordPress invite available
- Divided loyalties
- Why would anyone want a career in PR cont.
- Making the news: Blogging, RSS and the New PR
- Lunch with Rupert Murdoch
- The Guardian’s sales up for the first time in years
- News clips for your iPod video
- UK online advertising on the increase
- Video Podcasting
- iPod video is out. Who wants to buy my iPod photo?
- Burger King the rebel of fast foods
- Tech Camp Ireland
- gada.be
- Increase in the use of RSS online
- Grunig & Hunt’s 4 models of PR and blogging practices
- WordPress Invite Available
- SPV C550 Smartphone Review
- Thank You WordPress for Comment Moderation!
- PR Week US Kicks Off 2006 Student Awards
- Independent Media - Subscribed
- Google Introduces online RSS Reader
- Spy Media, a new way for citizen journalists to gain revenue?
September 2005
- Tesco Has RSS Feeds
- I Got National Coverage
- Blog Back Up…phew!
- Another Interesting Use for a Blog
- Niche Journalism and the Beauty of it
- New York Times Online New Subscription Model
- Google blog search…Hmm, I’m not sure
- Tips On Writing Content for Your Blog cont.
- Profile Extra - What No RSS?
- The New Outlook Express will have RSS
- What is Web 2.0?
- Jeff Jarvis Writing for the Media Guardian
- Steve Jobs: Podcasts taking off like a rocket
- Vlogging for Politics
- Online Press Release Update
- FIFPro World XI Player Awards
- Blogs shortlisted for AOP Awards for the First Time
- BBC leading the way…again!
- The New Look Guardian Revealed
- While I’m on the subject of Apple
- The iPod phone - I’ll give it a miss
- Tweaking My Blog
- Here comes the podcast spam
- IC Network offering RSS feeds
- Popcasts
August 2005
- Get cheap airflights via RSS
- “Journalists don’t flog the blogs”
- The free WordPress blog - it’s good but it’s got a way to go
- Internet usage in UK business
- Online US newspapers reach $1 billion in revenues
- I made it on the front cover of PR Spin Weekly!
- Making RSS easier to use
- TypePad now has podcasting support
- Viewfinder Design
- If you’re wondering which blog platform to use…
- Is it just me or……
- The news is NowPublic
- Moylesy’s podcast jingle
- TypePad problems
- Murdoch ploughs $1bn into the Internet
- Phew!…That’s a relief!
- Gay people more likely to read blogs
- Submitting press releases online
- Onfolio for free
- Local newspapers using RSS
July 2005
- Moylesy podcasting
- PubSub employee spamming
- Transport for London & RSS
- Following the disaster in London
- London bombings and the new media
- “Things you can do with RSS” wiki
- Box.net RSS File sharing
- Reuters taps into RSS
June 2005
- Podcasting, fresh off the presses
- UK & US PR blogs number comparison
- Microsoft start with the RSS
- RSS, what is it?
- A rant on journalists
- World’s 100 largest newspapers by circulation
- Auburn students have a blog start
- Adam Curry on BBC TV
- Technorati BETA released
- Video plug-in for Skype
- Subscription paid RSS feeds
- How do you measure a blog’s readership?
May 2005
- Britcaster
- Pro blogging
- MSN Search manager blogging
- Streamload
- Why does everyone hate the media?
- What made a weblog two years ago
- punditpal
- PR Week’s top 50 tech PR consultancies
- MediaAtlas or Romeike?
- Thank you
- All in one web-based RSS reader
- PotKast
- In bloggers we trust
- Firefox benefits PR bloggers
- Top tips from Chris Lewis
- 300 strong celebrity blog
- Creating a buzz through blogging
- German blog survey
- Gmail invites
- 100 most powerful people in the UK media
- How to vlog…vlog
- Creating a good website pressroom
- Blogging article in Behind the Spin magazine
- Blogging ethics
- He’s a PR guy, he could ruin you
- Tiger V Longhorn
- Sell your podcasts?
- MessageCast aquired by Microsoft
- Blog research seminar
- 15 different uses for RSS
- Blogs V Press Releases
- Yahoo! video search
- Students get ahead and blog!
- How to podcast using Skype - Skypecasting!
- Handy tips to increase your blog’s visitor traffic
April 2005
- Simple video streaming for blogs
- I’m converted!
- Blogs & podcasting in TV and film
- Do journalists review press releases?
- Business Week
- Podcasts alarm traditional radio
- RSS Submit
- A PR appraisal
- Branded RSS readers
- Milestone
- Listen, create and equip
- Blog language
- The business case for RSS
- The end of the press release?
- SmallBizPod
- Note to PR students
- PR Students
- Micro what?
- Blogs and public relations
- Master disaster
- Clifford the perfect PR model?
- PR Podcasting
- Stepping out of the box
- My first post