This is a cross post from our new blog sherrilynnestarkie.com. Please reset your RSS to the new site. My friend Susan Getgood is speaking on Tuesday’s Blogging with Integrity webinar, and I encourage everyone who is interested in learning what is best practice in terms of blogger outreach to check it out. Susan and I [...]
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This is a cross post from our new blog sherrilynnestarkie.com. Please reset your RSS to the new blog. More than a hundred people turned up at Jaks on Thursday night for the Isle of Man’s first ever Twestival which has so far raised £1577.62 for the charity Concern Worldwide. Donations on the night amounted to [...]
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Twestival Global 2010 has been awarded a US $100k matching grant from Austin Ventures, a Texas-based VC firm. This means that for every £5 ticket sold, another £5 will be added to the total. Not only is 100% of all ticket sales and donations going to support Concern Worldwide’s educational projects, that amount will be [...]
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This is a cross post from our new blog sherrilynnestarkie.com. Please reset your RSS. On Thursday 25 March, people in hundreds of cities around the world will come together for Twestival Global 2010, a fundraising campaign for child poverty charity Concern Worldwide, and the Isle of Man is joining in. Twestival (or Twitter Festival) uses [...]
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This is a cross-post from out new site sherrilynnestarkie.com. Please reset your RSS to the new site! The Isle of Man’s International Business School has asked to me to speak at a lunchtime CPD seminar on 19 February 2010. I will cover the basics… What is social media – an overview of platforms How is [...]
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This is a cross post from our new site sherrilynnestarkie.com Please point your RSS to the new site, because Strive Notes will be put to bed before long. Mark your calendar! I’m running a ‘Getting to grips with social media’ workshop on 30 March 2010. Last November’s event proved very popular. It was sold right [...]
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This is cross posted from our new blog at sherrilynnestarkie.com. Please adjust your RSS now, because before long Strive Notes will be disappearing. Thanks to the more than 50 people who came out last week to Super Third Thursday, this year’s first meeting of the Isle of Man Social media club. Our speaker was CI [...]
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This is a cross post from our new site sherrilynnestarkie.com. Please reset your RSS to the new site, because we’ll be shutting this site down before long. Last night’s Isle of Man JCC’s Property Outlook event was sold out. No wonder! Black Grace Cowley’s Nic Cooper and Tim Groves teamed up to deliver a comprehensive, [...]
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Fourteen staff and friends of Strive PR recently visited Tracey Bell’s Super clinic to raise £180 for the Mayoress’ Charity Appeal. We toured the newly opened, state-of-the-art facility and enjoyed an evening of luxury including free treatments and demonstrations (and a glass or two or of bubbly). Tracey Bell donated 20% of all sales made [...]
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The Isle of Man Social Media Club meets the third Thursday of each month and everyone is welcome. On 21 January 2010, we are kicking off the New Year with Super Third Thursday with guest speaker Chief Inspector Mark Payne of the West Midlands Police. Chief Inspector Mark Payne is responsible for the smooth running [...]
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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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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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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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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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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 [...]
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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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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 [...]
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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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The United Way is a Canadian charity that plays a key role in bringing the whole Ottawa community together to change lives. I had the chance, many years ago, to see the United Way up close and personal. Last night I was lucky enough to be invited to attend SchmoozeFest 09, an event staged by [...]
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I was pretty disappointed that we didn’t manage to organise a Third Thursday meeting of the Isle of Man Social Media Club in October. I’ve been off the Island a lot lately and @OwenC who is usually able to deputise for me, was slightly preoccupied with the arrival of his new twin daughter and son. [...]
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Next week is the third Thursday of August and that means that the Isle of Man Social Media Club is getting together for lunch at Paparazzi in Douglas. Maybe you are trying to figure out Twitter, of have just established a Facebook Fan Page. Or maybe you’re a seasoned blogger with a long history in [...]
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Image via Wikipedia Time was, when asked this questions, I’d start to recite deadlines, copy guidelines and descriptions of newsroom teams. But that was before the Internet changed everything. Now print journalists are producing video reports and podcasts. Radio and TV journalists are blogging. And then there are bloggers, who many say are a law [...]
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You know, not a week goes by that I don’t hear from someone who’s interested in getting a start in PR and is wondering what it’s all about. So I thought it might be helpful to create a seminar that will answer many of the questions I hear time and again. It occurred to me [...]
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On Tuesday night the Isle of Man Women in Business network held its launch event and more than 130 women (and two men) turned up. I’m on the steering committee and so I was pretty excited, overwhelmed really, by the huge turnout. Clearly there is a real hunger for such a group among women entrepreneurs and [...]
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Following on from the success of our first ever Super ThirdThursday in February everyone is invited to attend our lunch meeting 19 March 2009. We revert to ‘regular’ format for this one, so that means we all meet at Paparazzi in Douglas at 12.30. We had a record turnout last month so I hope all [...]
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This week we had the Isle of Man’s Social Media Club’s first ever Super ThirdThursday! Thirty people turned up (that’s about twice as many as usual) to learn about the club, and I was delighted with the turn out. There was an excellent mix of bloggers, tweeter and Facebookers, and there were a number of [...]
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February’s meeting of the Isle of Man Social Media club is open to all and is taking on a whole new personality. The first-ever Super ThirdThursday takes place on 19 February, 12.30 to 14.00 at the Claremont in Douglas. First of all, you don’t have to buy your own lunch because Strive PR is sponsoring [...]
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ThirdThursday was a rather ‘intimate affair’ this month and I thank John Jamie, Charlotte, Chris, Nathan, Charlie and Owen for attending. One thing is clear, we need to make a few changes to breath some fresh life into this initiative, so that’s what we are going to do. Next month, we’re going to change the [...]
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The Isle of Man Social Media Club meets the Third Thursday of each month and that means next week, 15 January, we’ll be meeting for lunch at Paparazzi on the Douglas Promenade. 12.30 -14.00. Everyone with an interested in blogging, Facebook, podcasts, Twitter, etc is welcome. The Third Thursday initiative has four main aims. We want [...]
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