Digital Skills: Views from the PR industry
Recently, PR Week (Wednesday 13 January 2010) ran an article lamenting the level of digital skills within the PR industry. Using stats provided by recruitment agency Major Players, Matt Cartmell highlighted the More...
Video of my Presentation on e-portfolios
Here is the video recording of my presentation on e-portfolios from Thursday’s learning lunch at Leeds Met. It was a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon and both Charlotte Britton and Stephen Waddington have penned More...
Slides of my Presentation on e-portfolios
I shall be giving a presentation tomorrow (Thursday 14 January 2010) at Leeds Metropolitan University on e-portfolios. I will be giving my views from a graduate perspective and how I believe e-portfolios can be More...
Q&A with Edelman HR Ace
This post is the third in a series focussing on PR graduate jobs, employability and general tips on getting into the industry. I’m delighted that Antonia Katsambis, Senior HR Assistant at Edelman kindly agreed More...
Ghost Bloggers – Who You Gonna Call?
Over the last week or so ghost blogging has been a big issue – a quick look at Dell’s B2B Social Media Huddle Twitter stream (#DellB2B) will show you a range of opinions. As many have pointed out including Wolfstar’s More...
Q&A with High-Flying SAE
This week I have adopted a slightly different approach to the blog and carried out a guest post Q&A with Matt Churchill, Senior Account Executive at Edelman. For those looking to get into the PR industry, Matt More...
2010 Euprera Social Media Awards
This post if for all those PR student bloggers out there who have been maintaining a blog for a while – have you heard about the Euprera Social Media Awards? The Euprera Symposium is an annual coming together More...
The Business of Buying Off Bloggers
There has been a lot of talk lately about buying off bloggers. This murky practice involves individuals being paid by PR agencies and SEO specialists to basically write nice stuff about a client. This in turn creates More...
2010 PR Grad Schemes
I was thinking the other day what would have made my life easier in my final year at university. Looking back it was a hectic period – amongst all the deadlines, presentations, portfolios and exams we were More...
Why do you Tweet?
This is a question that increasing numbers of people have asked me lately. Read Write Web published some research on this topic, however I feel that people are drawn to Twitter primarily for three things and they More...
Streisand Strikes Again
Last weeks headlines were dominated by a gagging order placed on the Guardian newspaper – which in something of a masterstroke ran a story about absolutely nothing. For those with their head in the sand, the More...
