Matthew Watson has updated his complication of top PR blogs. He starts with the AdAge Power 150 and simply filters out anything that’s not strongly related enough to PR. Topping the list is Danny Brown, a Canadian based blog that comes 33rd in the AdAge 150, then PR Squared and another Canadian blog by Dave [...]
January 12, 2010
The Press Association creates TNR Communications
The Press Association is creating a new agency for online, photo and broadcast PR services by merging TNR and PA Photocall. The new PR agency will also be creating a service called Videocall which makes use of social media and video. Hopefully we’ll see them making use of Brinkwire’s all-in use of YouTube video embedding [...]
January 11, 2010
Northcliffe launches Northcliffe Digital
Regional newspaper powerhouse Northcliffe Media has created Northcliffe Digital to – as you can guess – concentrate on digital. The new MD will be Mike Rowley and the new Content Strategy Director is none other than Robert Hardie. I’ve met them both and know they’re clued up in this space. Rowley told Journalism.co.uk, “One of [...]
January 7, 2010
More than 100 bloggers behind bars
Over at The Register, John Ozimek cites research from Reporters sans Fronieres to declare blogging is a dangerous business. He notes there are more than 100 bloggers behind bars around the world. The problem is that in a few countries ‘online dissent’ is a criminal offence. We may automatically think of places like China, Iran, [...]
January 7, 2010
Stop talking about SEO and get on with it!
I’ve just this week subscribed to PR Moment’s blog. Ben Smith’s written a post today that seems to confirm that as a wise decision. In his post Ben argues that the PR community has a chance to grow its marketshare relative to the other marcom mix. The post is simply titled; Blogs, SEO, and video [...]
January 7, 2010
Will Mashable join Tim Armstrong’s Aol empire?
Jon Silk’s written today of news that Aol may bid for Mashable. Silk compares edgy TechCrunch to Mashable’s safer but just as popular content and suggests there is little wonder why its Mashable that’s talking to a big name buyer. I’m a fan of many of the more geeky Aol blogs but don’t understand their [...]
January 6, 2010
Gawker eases away from page views and to unique
The powerhouse that is Gawker Media is believed to be moving away from raw page views as a key measurement and towards unique visitors. Website theAWL.com has what seems to be a leaked memo in which Nick Denton, Gawker big cheese, explains the shift. “… some pageviews are worth more than others” and an item [...]
January 6, 2010
CIPR President, Jay O’Connor, tackles 2010
Over at PR Voice you’ll find the CIPR President’s New Year message. O’Conner begins by thanking outgoing President Kevin Taylor which is nice if predictable. Jay tackles a key question; “What’s the role of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations”. This blogger thinks it’s a good question. Aren’t we all in public relations now? Anyone [...]
January 5, 2010
LoveJingles does a social media jingle a day
A random email touting the blog LoveJingles.com hit my inbox after lunch. It’s from a guy called Love Harnell. What a good name. What Harnell is doing is selling a jingle a day. The first jingle, January the 1st, went for $1. Looking at the calendar it looks like he’s booked up to 26th of [...]
January 4, 2010
The PR opportunities behind a tweet: @CoryBooker and @BigSixxRaven
This story has made it all the way across the globe to a snowy Scotland. Seems the local residents in Jersey are also suffering from some unwelcome snowfall too. Local radio DJ (with the rather awesome name of Ravie Rave) noticed the authorities hadn’t shoved her 65-year-old father’s pavement she did something about it. What [...]
January 13, 2010
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