Category Archive for "Online PR"

Start Stop and Social Media

I started this post a number of weeks ago.  In retrospect it should really have been two separate posts which it will now be but instead of posting it, I let it lie in my drafts folder until I ‘had time’…

Social Media Emphasis on ORM at Search Marketing World 2009

Social Media engagement seemed to be the big winner at Search Marketing World this year.  The beauty and horror of these events is that you get to pick and choose the sections you can attend but invariably the ones you…

Online PR Distribution Debate Opened Up Again?

The launch of a new press release distribution service called PR Zone is likely to open up the debate about public relations companies using online distribution services once again. The PR industry has been slow enough to embrace these type services…

Social media – hot or not in 2009

Net Imperative ran an interesting story about the blocks to and attitudes towards social media.  The basis of the story was research was called out by Sapient Interactive.  Lack of understanding was predictably one of the main blockers to implementing campaigns but the good…

UK Digital Brands Coming to Ireland

Net imperative ran an interesting event this week in Guinness Storehouse.  It was a pretty full house, wide range of understanding amongst the attendees, had a good line up and strangely enough was free.  Perhaps Piaras was right about the future…

PR and Bloggers Can Live Together

Last nights PR and Blogger meet up in Edelmans offices passed off with any physical harm to any of the attendees.  Billed as collision course the atmosphere was pretty friendly and more curious than frictional.  Overall some interesting points: – most…

Some likely changes to the PR industry!

I started this post as ‘the Future of PR companies’ but it was too broad and looked like an enormous post so I have distilled to some observations. The public relations industry is posed to change enormously and at the…

The Business case for Social Media

The IIA Social Media working group recently organised an afternoon session with Neville Hobson entitled The Business Case for Social Media.  The session was well chaired by Brendan Hughes and viewed remotely by students of the Tipperary Institute courtesy of Bernie Goldbach.  Neville has…

Building Applications in Facebook

Facebook offers a great medium for building relevant applications and is one of the reasons that it has maintained its current numbers of subscribers. We have built an application called Get Creative which is a database of Public Relations, Marketing…

Posting presentations on your blog

In the interest of sharing and hopefully shortening the learning curve for someone else here are the instructions for posting presentations onto your blog.   1. Register with SlideShare.  The site appears unaccessible a good bit so try again later if it…