Blog Relations PR survey
Hugh Fraser and Matthew Lynn of Blog Relations have published the results of their recent blogging survey of 50 PR consultants. While the sample size is perhaps not representative of the entire industry and, as…
Notes from Blighty
Back in San Fran after a whistlestop tour to the UK. From those I spoke to the mood in the UK seems positive from an agency perspective with lots of companies looking for agencies and…
London
I’m off to London for a series of meetings and to renew some old acquaintances. I’ll see if I can find out some new trends in PR and media from a UK perspective while there….
Global PR Blog Week 2.0
The Global PR Blog Week 2.0 starts today. It’s an online event focused on how new communications technologies are changing public relations and business communication. Expect lots of good posts and comments about blogging, podcasting,…
Under The Radar – Enterprise Technologies
The next Under The Radar event is coming up on November 16, 2005 in Mountain View, CA. This time it’s focused on Enterprise Technologies. The call for companies was sent out recently, and there is…
Entrepreneurs Foundation
I’ve started to help out in the marketing communications council for the Entrepreneurs Foundation, which promotes involvement by Bay Area companies in community programs. Participating companies donate a small amount of their equity to the…
The Guardian gets $145m make-over
The Guardian newspaper, one of the UK national dailies, finally unveiled its new mid-size format today. As part of an estimated $145m overhaul according to BBC estimates, the paper has resized to a format between…
Adium – Multilingual IM for Mac
Many communications professionals now regularly use Instant Messaging to correspond with clients, reporters, partners and co-workers for those one-to-one urgent matters where emails might get lost or are too slow. Since IM networks like Yahoo,…
Who’s There? – Free Seth Godin ebook
Marketing maestro, Seth Godin has kindly made his latest ebook freely available. ‘Who’s There’ is an ‘Incomplete Guide to Blogs and the New Web’ and is available for download here. At 45 pages (small ones)…
Are your manners business class?
While browsing through the bookstore this weekend, I came across Jacqueline Whitmore’s ‘Business Class – etiquette essentials for success at work.’ At 192 pages it’s an easily-digestible, whistle-stop tour of business manners. Most of us,…