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 come in all shapes and forms. As social media crisis are still pretty new they come in all shapes and forms and many companies are only discovering them the hard way as the stumble through them. Instances…
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…
I always think that a Facebook like is similar to a nod – a casual nod at that. However likes are a serious business with Pennys topping the chart in Ireland at almost 376,000 likes quickly followed by Lidl with…
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 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…
Stumbled upon a nice Twitter influence/comparision tool called Klout.com. How you compare with others on twitter has normally been a manual task of looking at their followers, following, number of tweets, number of @ and general level of engagement. I…
How influential someone is in PR has alway been a bit foggy to say the least. It is easy to claim you are influential but proof has normally been in the form of being able to open doors or hidden in…
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…