5 Tips to Pitch Yourself to a Potential Employer Using Social Media
I was inspired to write these tips after reading Katelyn Mashburn’s fantastic post on making the perfect pitch to journalists. This got me thinking about not only how important it is to get the pitch right when More...
Q&A with Graeme Anthony AKA the Guy whose CV went Viral
Happy New Year – and what better way to kick things off than by having a chat with one of the industry stars of 2010! I’m delighted that Graeme Anthony, Senior Account Manager at Frank PR, AKA the guy whose C.V.I.V More...
Q&A with Young PR Pro of the Year
This post is the eight Q&A in an ongoing series looking at the usual Social Web Thing discussion topics of PR, social media and employability. I’m delighted that Ben Matthews, Programme Manager at 33 Digital More...
Q&A with Paratus’ Lead Social Media Consultant
This post is the seventh Q&A in an ongoing series looking at the usual Social Web Thing discussion topics of PR, social media and employability. I’m delighted that Adam Vincenzini, Lead Social Media Consultant More...
Q&A with Wolfstar’s Head Innovator
This post is the sixth Q&A in an ongoing series looking at the usual topics of PR, employability and other hints on getting into the industry, albeit with a particular focus on social media. I’m delighted More...
Graeme Anthony & THAT CV
I often post wonderful examples of graduates who have used innovative methods to land a job in the PR industry, however this week the spotlight can only be shone on one person. Graeme Anthony. The creativity, technical More...
So You Want to Work in PR? Here’s My 10 Top Tips
The inspiration for this post came about after an acquaintance of mine asked me to give some advice to one of his friends about ‘getting into PR’, well specifically, the agency side of things. I was delighted More...
10 Social Media #Epic #Fails
I’ve put together a presentation deck of 10 Social Media #Epic #Fails. It’s something I have been working on for a while and for the presentations I give, it often helps to include a few examples of More...
Landing a Job in the Digital World
I gave a presentation this week entitled ‘Landing a Job in the Digital World’ at Leeds Metropolitan University. The deck focused on using an e-portfolio, blog and social media to record achievement, More...
Research Internship at Edelman
Edelman has a paid internship available for somebody to work in Strategy One – the agency’s research division. The role is to ‘assist in the media research activities of client projects and expose current More...
Ben-cotton.com Launched
I thought I’d let you know that my Lifestream, Ben-Cotton.com has gone ‘live’ after some initial beta testing. A lot of people have asked me, why have I produced this site, so hopefully this post will go some More...
