One of the phrases from last nights OMiG event in Galway last night that has stuck in my mind is one by Sean Earley from New Slang “If its not worth spending money on, its not worth posting” Ever since…
The formal launch of the Irish Times data section last week unveils an interesting emerging picture in the world of data driven journalism. Social media and Twitter in particular have been very fertile grounds for journalists but the pure volume…
I felt my head nodding a lot as I read David Meerman Scott’s updated ‘The New Rules of Marketing and PR” which has been on my reading list for a long time. Updating a book of this nature can be…
One of the main things I have observed from being involved in numerous crisis is that in the heat of a crisis the quality of thinking is generally reduced, the ability to make decisions becomes paralysed and common sense gets…
Social media crisis are all the rage. Nothing drives sharing faster through the social-verse than a company or individual falling flat on their face. The shock for most companies is the speed that it unfolds, the paralytic effect it has on…
Public relations or media campaigns have always been difficult to measure and the subject of much debate on what should be measured and how. Most of the time the processes used have tended to be very crude. Some organisations just…
I had the pleasure of presenting to around 200 people at a Fingal Business Network event in the Clarion this week. Very interesting mix of people. The main part of the presentation was about how to use social media to…
I had an issue a while ago trying to view a QR code on a business card I received but an interesting discussion on the For Immediate Release podcast and an invite I received to the adgrad Winner of the RTE copywriting…
I am surprised that the launch of Microsofts Kinect, the long expected arrival of internet TVs by year end and the never ending expansion of cloud based services has not generated more debate about the potential impact on PR and social media. In…
I was asked to give some tips for an article in the Sunday Times SME section on how to launch a product to maximum effect. Naturally my contribution was only a small part of the article but I thought some…