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20th June 2011

Social media measurement – The next challenge in PR evaluation

There are now so many routes to key audiences as the lines between offline ‘traditional’ print and broadcast media and social media begin to blur.

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20th June 2011

5 questions companies should ask before using Twitter

Any social media PR person will be familiar with the feeling when a client or CEO comes to you and says, ‘I think we need

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16th June 2011

Should we be scared of digital navel gazing?

Last weekend, The Observer carried a story entitled ‘Should we be scared of the made-to-measure internet?‘ I love digital scaremongering. I’ve enjoyed reading about it

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7th June 2011

Want ROI on your PR activity? Start by killing off AVE

With all the belt tightening and budget squeezing going on in the PR world, we need accurate measurement more than ever. It’s not enough to

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23rd May 2011

Tech journalists – better than the rest

A recent study by the Oriella PR network into digital journalism (you can read the report for yourself here) highlighted that 62% of journalists still

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20th May 2011

Social search comes to the UK next week

Google has announced that it is to roll out ‘social search’ in the UK next week. Until now the service was only available to US

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16th May 2011

5 ways to turn distraction into inspiration

Despite everything else that has changed in the workplace over the years, the ability to have good ideas is still the differentiator that can launch

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12th May 2011

Facebook adds photo tagging for brands

In a further olive branch to brands using the social network, Facebook has announced a new feature allowing users to tag Pages in Facebook photos.

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11th May 2011

More news consumed on Facebook than on Twitter

The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism has conducted some fascinating research on how people in the US consume news online. They took

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10th May 2011

Breaking the news through Facebook

Over the weekend some troubling news from Egypt emerged, but what was interesting was how the Egyptian army chose to communicate updates. Taken from the

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Darren Willsher
9th May 2011

The role of influencers in the PR world

Journalism.co.uk sparked some interesting debate with the release of its PeerIndex list of the UK’s 100 most influential journalists online. Initial reaction focused on who

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6th May 2011

Ten tips for writing the perfect blog post

As we bring a new agency and a new blog into the world, I thought it would be interesting to look at how to write

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