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I started blogging at Strive Notes four years ago in early 2006 but the time has come to make a change. Business has changed. Life has changed.
I thank everyone who has been reading commenting and contributing and invite you all to join me at my new site: sherrilynnestarkie.com.
I’ll be cross posting here for next few [...]
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PDMS, the software development firm specialising in web development services, has forged an alliance with Sherrilynne Starkie, managing partner of Strive Public Relations, to help organisations to build, manage and engage with online communities through social computing.
As part of PDMS’ Digital Design service, the new venture provides a unique combination of deep software engineering expertise [...]
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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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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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Senior Account Executive
This is excellent opportunity to join the Island’s only strategic communications agency. Ideally you will have a PR degree and 24 months experience gained within a similar environment and will have worked with technology clients. You should have strong B2B experience, good commercial awareness, strong writing skills and ability to produce a range [...]
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Are you studying PR, marketing, journalism or media at college or university? Are you looking for a summer job in the Isle of Man for 2009 and want to gain some relevant experience? We’d like to hear from you.
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My life is pretty much an open book, so when Leo tagged me on the seven things meme, I was a bit apprehensive. Can I even think of seven things that people don’t know about me? Here’s my best try.
1. When I was a teenager Patty T. and I climbed the fence at [...]
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Last night Strive PR hosted a Christmas party for our Isle of Man clients, associates and the media in our offices on Strand Street. Thanks to everyone who came out to make our night a great success (and quite a bit of fun!). And best wishes for the festive season to those of you who [...]
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Twice a year we publish a hard copy newsletter, Insight, for our Isle of Man-based clients, associates and friends. The most recent issue was distributed in September with a reader competition which asked people to identify mobile tag image for what it was.
I was pleased to draw Carrick Financial’s Stephen Burdett’s name out of the [...]
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If you’re not using RSS and newsfeeds, we publish a monthly e-newsletter just for you. So you can still get our news and information about media, marketing and communications, delivered to your in box.
If you are using RSS to get Strive Notes and don’t wish to receive the newsletter, feel free to send a message [...]
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Every month the folks at the British Computer Society Isle of Man section invites everyone to a seminar where information technology, how people use it and the industry that surrounds it is discussed.
Last month Andy Orton, managing director of Dotperformance, an Isle of Man-based digital agency, spoke about search engine marketing.
Andy’s been in business for [...]
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I had the opportunity to meet up with a bunch of students from Ballerkameen High School in the Isle of Man earlier this week. They are taking part in the Junior Achievement company programme and wanted to learn about how PR could fit into their marketing mix. I was impressed with the quality of question [...]
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Yesterday I attended a meeting organised by the Isle of Man Business and Innovation Centre. The purpose was to discuss connecting women in business on the Island. A healthy crowd of female entrepreneurs came out to discuss the possiblity of creating formal network.
Jo Dobson, director of strategic relationships at Coventry University Enterprise was on hand [...]
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Paul Ballard hit me with a meme earlier this week. In the spirit of sharing a bit about myself and fun, here we go!
Top three non work websites:
Weightwatchers
Facebook
eBay
Top three karaoke songs:
American Woman
Moonage Dayream
Like a virgin
Top three weekend cocktails:
G&T
Gin and Tonic
Gordons and Scheweppes
The three people I am tagging are:
Nickop
Kathryn B
Leo
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If you’re not using RSS and newsfeeds we publish a monthly e-newsletter just for you so you can still get our news and information about media, marketing and communications.
If you are using RSS to get Strive Notes and don’t wish to receive the newsletter, feel free to send a message and we’ll take you off [...]
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I’m chuffed to have been invited to take part on the upcoming FIR live panel discussion on the value of PR for start ups. Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz are co-chairing and so far the panel includes:
Rob Lane, CEO, Overlay TV (and several previous startups)
Mike Manuel, PR practitioner, Voce Communications
Katie Paine, KD Paine & Partners, [...]
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All you August and September linkers and commenters, please feel the love from Strive Notes:
Paul Stallard
Owen Cutajar
Steve Coleman
Nick Pledger
Reg Crowder
Travelwires.com
Leo Cussons
Antony Mayfield
Neville Hobson
Beyond Digital Media
Chris Heuer
Leo Bottary
Sally Whittle
Rachel M. Esterline
Tom Altman
John McGlothlen
Chris Brogan
David Jones
Nickop
Massimo Carraro
Nathan Pledger
DEREK”TheBandit’s”Blog
Paul Stallard
Deborah Zanke
Babooshka
Chris Bishops
Angela Maiers
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Well actually it is ThirdThursday and we should be having a meeting of the Isle of Man Social Media Club today. But with all the travelling I’ve been doing lately, it kind of sneaked up on me. I only just realised a minute ago that today should be the day. So what should we do? [...]
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Thanks to everyone who came out to today’s Isle of Man Social Media Club Third Thursday lunch. We covered everything from libel to Graffiti to Podcasting to Technorati to the need for a great foodie blog in the Isle of Man. As always I learned a lot. I hope you all did too. See the [...]
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Tonight, at the Sefton hotel in Douglas, Martin Blackburn, emergency planning officer will be speaking to the Junior Chamber of Commerce.
It’s a subject that we all worry about and then put to the back of our heads – what would really happen if the Island suffered a major incident? How would the hospitals cope? Could [...]
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It’s been seven years since I stood in stunned silence watching through my office window as the the Pentagon burned. It’s been seven years since I first understood why the word terrorism is such an accurate descriptor.
Life has moved on, but each year on September 11, I think about the people who [...]
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Astonishingly few companies within the UK are benefiting from the advantages that come from world class accredited service management. This talk presents a distillation of the best practices in IT service delivery. We will touch on existing and developing global IT standards, and IT performance aspirations including ITIL v3 and related best practice methodologies
About the [...]
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Strive Notes has being going strong for more than two years now and I’m still enjoying publishing it and I hope readers enjoy it too. But I know that not everyone out there as up to speed as some on how to use RSS and newsfeeds. So we’ve been sending out a monthly e-newsletters [...]
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I’m rather late on this, but it doesn’t mean I don’t love you. I’m just juggling a lot these days. All you July linkers and commenters, please feel the love from Strive Notes:
Brian Boyd
Don Draper
Shill
Digglit
Leo Bottery
Rachel M. Esterline
Daryl Willcox
Babooshka
Reg Crowder
Nick Pledger
FreshNetworks Blog
Owen Cutajar
School Communications 2.0
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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 [...]
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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 Ink
Common Sense PR
Ask Owen
Relentless PR
Charles on
Database Management
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Hello all you Isle of Man bloggers, would be bloggers and online marketers out there! If you’re like me, you want to be able to put a face to the name to the growing number of people online in the Isle of Man. I think it’s high time we formed our own Third Thursday Social [...]
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Each month, I write up a round up of the previous month’s most popular posts on Strive Notes. Interestingly, this month only one of the fave five relates to PR…the rest are tech stories. Things that make you go hmmmmmmmm. Perhaps we’re not engaging in the PR conversation the way we should be? I’ll think [...]
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