Suppose you invested a million dollars in staging a huge corporate event and only 100 people showed up? You’d be disappointed no doubt, and you’d be asking the organisers for a good explanation! But this is exactly what’s happening to many companies who are making a huge investment in online social networks, according to a [...]
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The ‘number’ of mistakes I encounter relating to the bleedin’ apostrophe, for example, or the ‘amount’ of ignorance there is in the use of common English grammar, is a good sentence to illustrate the use of two words – ‘number’ and ‘amount’ – that are, so often, mixed up. ‘Number’ relates to specifics, ‘amount’ is [...]
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Image via Wikipedia Apparently Max Clifford had been advising, on a pro bono basis, Robert Murat, the man who for a time was at the centre of the investigation of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. This week, Murat received a payout of £500k from the British media for publishing unfounded accusations about him. He has [...]
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Image via Wikipedia Strive PR account assistant Caroline helped out this week by shortlisting the five PR blog posts she enjoyed reading the most… Simon Collister blogged about the pictures of the new Downing Street website are on Flickr due to their design team employing social media in their work. Bob LeDrew explains how to [...]
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I wonder what the folks behind Response Source think about Peter Shankman’s ‘Help A Reporter Out’ (HARO) service that is having a strong impact in the US PR industry. Basically Peter has devised a completely free-to-use service to link reporters with PRs and other sources. It started out as a Facebook page but soon outgrew [...]
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We’ve been publishing our blog Strive Notes for more than two years to highlight news and views about important media issues and the public relations profession. On the whole the blog has been successful in achieving our marketing goals, but I recognise that there is a significant proportion people in our community that may not [...]
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Isle of Man journalists are leaving the profession in droves. ITV Border recently lost journalist Joanne Clague, 3FM said goodbye to news director Merita Taylor, Isle of Man Newspapers have lost both editor John Sherrocks and business reporter Julie Taylor. Now Dan Davies is leaving Manx Radio to take on a government position. Why the [...]
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The people behind Paramount Pictures, Dreamworks and US TV networks Comedy Central and MTV have been making headlines with concerns over online privacy. Viacom, which was spun off from CBS as couple of years ago, has agreed to let Google strip identifying information from YouTube viewers’ data before complying with a judge’s order to hand [...]
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Image by Getty Images via Daylife Apparently, doctors who spend three hours a week playing video games made 37 percent fewer mistakes in laparoscopic surgery found researchers in 2004. You could be forgiven for fixating on the fact that they make any mistakes at all, never mind in over a third of cases! But this [...]
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Image via Wikipedia Jim Kukral believes so. He cites these reasons: ” The a-list died because of social networking tools. It used to be that connecting with thousands of people could only be done if you had massive reach like an a-lister. However, with tools like Friendfeed and Twitter, anyone can reach out and “friend” [...]
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Today was the inaugural ThirdThursday meeting of the Isle of Man Social Media Club. A small, but enthusiastic group of bloggers and people interested in social networks came out to Paparazzi in Douglas. The idea of today’s lunch was to get a feel for how much interest there is in the subject. Discussion ranged from [...]
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Wow. There are a LOT of people coming to ThirdThursday tomorrow. I’m really excited that so many people are interested in taking part. Just show up at Paparazzi in Douglas at 12.30 tomorrow. There is no strict agenda. I just want to gauge interest in future events and see what topics people would like to [...]
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Image via Wikipedia The Buzzmakr blog has a great post about Digg! shouts. Writer Natitude says, “My Digg ‘friends’ don’t seem to understand that if I vote for every single submission, it’s going to mean nothing. Shout me the ones you really like or want to go and I’d be happy to vote for it [...]
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Image by Getty Images via Daylife Despite the widescale adoption of wikis, blogs, intranets and other forms of internet communication, email remains the killer app that keeps us all in touch. Sending an email has become as natural as drawing breath. In fact, we are inundated with emails, both wanted and unwanted. We have sophisticated [...]
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Image via Wikipedia For the past two years my company has used the WordPress as the content management platform for Strive Notes, our blog, and it’s never let us down. A favourite with bloggers worldwide, the platform provides all the interactive features that make blogs social, and it’s as easy to use as word processing [...]
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For the grammar-obsessed among us, all hail the arrival of Grammarman! Brian Boyd, an English teacher with a penchant for comic drawings and good grammar, came up with the idea of a superhero intent on fighting crimes against grammar to help teach his students in Thailand. Apparently Grammarman was sent to planet Earth as a [...]
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I know I’m running a bit late with this, but hey, I’ve been busy. It doesn’t mean I don’t love you all! Mwah! Commenters Fred X Kami Huyse Eric Eggertson Reg Crowder Mark Dykeman Leo Bottary Leo Rita Rich Nathan Pledger Charlie Palmer Chris Heuer Ben Fairfax Owen Max Bob Geller Stu Peters Linkers Getting [...]
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It’s a lovely summer’s day – well, actually, it isn’t – it’s overcast, spitting with rain and July. But I use this sentence to illustrate another apostrophe crime. Sorry to go on about it, but every day I get emails that betray the fact people just don’t get it. Today, for example, I received this [...]
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Image via Wikipedia Last year I became an accredited consultant for the Isle of Man Department of Trade and Industry’s Business Support Scheme (BSS). The scheme lets companies get help in various business disciplines by underwriting half the fees of approved consultants, up to £4,500. Last week the people behind the BSS invited all the [...]
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