Category Archive for "Public Relations"

Will Data Kill the PR Star.

  Last week I chaired a low key session with the PRII on the topic of Data Driven Journalism that ended on a more positive note than I had expected.  Some very pragmatic pointers from the session and although its not…

Book cover of the New Rules of Marketing and PR

The New Rules of Marketing and PR. #book I read

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…

Should PR Own Social Media?

On the 19th of February I have the pleasure of chairing a session organised by the PRII Entitled Should PR Own Social Media? Normally these type sessions can tend to a self supporting and predictable with little dissent.  However this…

Are comments the cheap semantic analysis?

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…

Good to be aware of information days.

I am always amazed at the large amount of awareness days and weeks that pop up on the annual calendar. Some are established and have significant budget behind them while some appear very opportunistic. In general they are designed to…

What happens when social media really takes off.

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…

Some tips for SME product launching

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…

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’…

Irish media influence on twitter growing

In preparation for a presentation I am giving at Hotel Website Marketing next week I pulled together a list of Irish media on Twitter and used Klout to some insight into their rankings/influence.  The results were surprising.  The landscape is…

Can you automate PR?

I wrote a while ago about new distribution services that were launched in Ireland mainly aimed at auotmating the distribution of press releases to media and others.  Generally they range from posting press releases on a press release portal of sorts…