Posted on November 26th, 2009 by sherrilynne
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Johnston Press, parent company to the Isle of Man Newspapers, is introducing subscriptions fees on their websites in a pilot scheme starting next week.
The Worksop Guardian, Ripley & Heanor News, Northumberland Gazette, Whitby Gazette (all in England), and the Southern Reporter and Carrick Gazette (in Scotland) will restrict access to non-subscribers, in an [...]
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Posted on November 26th, 2009 by sherrilynne
More than 70 members and friends of the Isle of Man Junior Chamber of Commerce attended a special eGaming meeting last night. Speaker Warwick Bartlett told the group: “I think the single biggest issue facing the eGaming sector for the next five to six years is going to be changes to law. That’s whether the [...]
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Posted on November 26th, 2009 by sherrilynne
Her name is Becky Cruel. She’s 14 years old and lives in the Isle of Man. And she’s a YouTube sensation…in Japan.
Inspired by reading the Japanese comic, Fruits Basket, she fell in love with Japanese culture and videos of herself dancing to songs in the Japanese anime style.
Her video has been viewed 323,000+ times [...]
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Filed under: Social Media
Posted on November 25th, 2009 by sherrilynne
Yesterday we held our first open course of our workshop: Getting to grips with social media, and it was a resounding success! Twenty-four people, representing a range of industry, public and private sector and various job descriptions, turned up for this four-hour session that covered everything from the basics about tools and social platforms to [...]
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Posted on November 25th, 2009 by sherrilynne
Lansons Communications Chief Executive Officer Tony Langham addressed a meeting of the Isle of Man’s Chartered Institute of Marketing group. He gave an overview of the work his firm is carrying out on behalf of the Isle of Man government; a 16-person media relations team is trying to raise awareness of the Island as a [...]
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Posted on November 24th, 2009 by sherrilynne
Today at our social media workshop we announced that Strive PR is forming a strategic alliance with PDMS Limited to create the Isle of Man’s premiere social media consulting service. We’ll be serving UK clients and those from further afield too!
It’s become glaringly obvious over the past several months that those professional communicators who have [...]
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Posted on November 19th, 2009 by sherrilynne
If you’ve heard about the eGaming industry in the Isle of Man and are curious to find out what it’s all about the Junior Chamber of Commerce is having an event next week that you’ll want to be sure to attend.
Warwick Bartlett will be the speaker. He’s going to provide an insight into the [...]
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Posted on November 14th, 2009 by sherrilynne
I was chuffed when earlier this week I was included in the PR Top 100 according to Edelman’s Tweetlevel.
Crowdsurfing author David Brain explains Tweetlevel on his blog: “Yet again we brutalise complex human concepts like trust, popularity, influence and engagement with our over-simplistic (but pretty bloody clever) algorithms.”
In the post’s comments, there’s a lengthy debate [...]
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Posted on November 12th, 2009 by sherrilynne
The Isle of Man Business & Innovation Centre (BIC) is marking Global Entrepreneurship Week (16th – 22nd November) by holding some workshops and info sessions for people in business and those thinking about starting a new venture.
It’s all happening at the BIC’s unit at the Tower Shopping Centre in Douglas (first floor above the cafe).
18 [...]
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Posted on November 10th, 2009 by sherrilynne
Remember that scene in Bridget Jones’s Diary where Daniel says, “You don’t have the faintest bloody idea of just how much trouble the company’s in. You swan in, in your short skirt and your sexy see-through blouse and fanny around with press releases.”?
My heart sank the first time I heard that dialogue. “That’s it,” I [...]
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Posted on November 9th, 2009 by sherrilynne
The Isle of Man Social Media Club had hoped to have a Super Third Thursday in November, but we’ve had a few challenges nailing down our speaker. So there is a slight delay until we have another Super event. But it will be worth it! December is usually pretty busy for most people so we’re [...]
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Posted on November 8th, 2009 by sherrilynne
It seems that journalists hate when PRs ring to follow up on an email according to a survey conducted by Iain Fleming as part of his CIPR (Chatered Institute of Public Relations Diploma) course at Queen Margaret University (thanks to Neville Hobson for pointing the story out).
The key finding: “The project also reveals that the [...]
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Posted on November 5th, 2009 by sherrilynne
The Isle of Man Junior Chamber of Commerce will welcome Chief Minister Tony Brown at a special meeting next week to discuss the Island’s unprecedented financial crisis after its budget was slashed by 24 per cent by the UK Chancellor Alistair Darling last month.
Darling has confirmed that the UK government is slashing £140 million off [...]
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Posted on November 5th, 2009 by sherrilynne
After an embarrassingly long absence due to family and business circumstances too numerous to mention, we finally have the return of the PR Top 5. Here’s what I’ve been loving this week!
1. When PR 2.0’s Brian Solis talks, people listen. And when he talks about news release embargoes (always favourite link bait subject), people comment [...]
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Posted on November 4th, 2009 by sherrilynne
I was in Ottawa for a couple of weeks and Joseph Thornley of Thornley Fallis was kind enough to invite me along to the Ottawa Third Tuesday meet up. Nevermind, it was on the fourth Friday of October, it was still a great event with more than 75 people turning up for breakfast. I [...]
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