Posted Thursday October 11, 2007, 11:28 am, Over one day old
Social bookmarking in Plain English Social Networking in Plain English Wikis in Plain English RSS in Plain English
Read Easy guides to social networks, bookmarking and RSS (Links)
Posted Thursday October 11, 2007, 11:28 am, Over one day old
I have managed to add a new dimension to the 02 Cocoon seeding programme... by losing mine. I wonder if whoever 'finds' it will blog about their experience? And, yes, I do miss it...
Read Bye bye, Cocoon... (Links)
Posted Saturday October 27, 2007, 8:44 am, Over one day old
Issue 18 of the UK's 'public relations magazine for students and young practitioners', to be published in March 2008, will have two main themes: Public Affairs (eg lobbying, political PR, issues management) PR for transport (bicycles, cars, planes, trains, space...
Read Behind the Spin (Links)
Posted Tuesday November 21, 2006, 8:20 am, Over one day old
Gerry McCusker (above), author of Tailspin, is now blogging at PR Disasters. Here's how he describes it...?PRdisasters? helps you avoid killing your PR career or crippling your corporate reputation by showing how ?not? to manage your PR efforts. We track...
Read Gerry's disastrous blog... and other must-reads (Links)
Posted Tuesday November 21, 2006, 8:20 am, Over one day old
Just back from a few days research in Stockholm, talking to practitioners about their conceptions of public relations and the assumptions that underpin ethical decisions. Much of my visit was arranged by Margaretha Sjöberg and her colleagues at the Sveriges...
Read Tack Stockholm, tack Margaretha (Links)
Posted Thursday November 23, 2006, 8:20 am, Over one day old
The UK's Chartered Institute of Public Relations has just issued for consultation draft Social Media Guidelines. One of the fora for discussion will be Tony Bradley's PR Voice blog. It is a fascinating document, but one that raises at least...
Read CIPR Social media guidelines (Links)
Posted Sunday September 9, 2007, 9:50 am, Over one day old
Martin Bellam has invented a really impressive set of Google-based tools which help you search UK newspapers. As well as searching for stories Chipwrapper offers newspaper buttons which give drop downs of the latest stories or launch searches. I am...
Read Chipwrapper is a must! (Links)
Posted Sunday September 9, 2007, 9:50 am, Over one day old
Handily for new journalism students, Peter Cole gives a useful (and fairly subjective) overview of the mid-market (Mail, Express), the red tops (old tabloids - Sun, Mirror and Star) and the qualities (he calls them the serious papers - Telegraph,...
Read An overview of the UK press (Links)
Posted Sunday September 9, 2007, 9:50 am, Over one day old
From today's Daily Telegraph: (A Facebook group) is claiming victory in a battle with Sky Sports over where the live scores were displayed during Premiership matches. Almost 6,000 fans added their support to the campaign for the return of the...
Read Facebook power scores again (Links)
Posted Tuesday April 8, 2008, 10:00 am, Over one day old
Ofcom has published a valuable report on the penetration of social media in the UK, finding that just over one fifth (22%) of adult internet users aged 16+ and almost half (49%) of children aged 8-17 who use the internet...
Read Ofcom Social Networking report (Links)