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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.
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Twitter isn’t a popularity contest. A tweep might have a ton of followers, but this is not necessarily a measure of his influence. How an individual behaves and interacts within the community is a better indicator [...]
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When is comes to apportioning blame for the current economic recession, it seems that bankers are getting the lion’s share, according to a PR Week survey carried out by research company OnePoll.
In fact, [...]
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It’s been a bad week for the American airline Southwest. Movie director Kevin Smith, also known as Silent Bob, was allegedly kicked off a flight because he’s too fat to fly. He vented [...]
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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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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 [...]
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If 2009 was the year of Twitter, then let 2010 be the year that social media comes of age and takes its rightful place at the centre of [...]
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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 [...]
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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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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.
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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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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 of [...]
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The second edition of Exclamation magazine, which I edit on behalf of Bridson & Horrox, the Isle of Man printing and stationery company, was issued this week. This story is my editorial contribution.
They say that when you laugh the world laughs with you and when you cry you cry alone. But during these recessionary [...]
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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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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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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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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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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 cafe).
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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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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 off [...]
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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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Recession still getting you down? Have you had your fill of doom and gloom headlines and are you getting rather sick of thinking about all these economic woes?
Then you’re certainly not alone. In tough times past Hollywood, fiction writers and the entertainment industry as a whole have tended to do [...]
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This morning I was up and at my desk early, as is my normal practice on a Wednesday morning. That’s where, for close to three years now, I could usually be found hammering away at the keyboard to get Tech Talk, my weekly column for the Isle of Man Examiner Business News done and dusted.
But [...]
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Napoleon once said that the UK is just a nation of shopkeepers, and I can’t help but feel that he may have a point.
Even though the pint-sized megalomaniac meant it as an insult, if he had been around today he would have probably harangued the Isle of Man for being nothing more than an island [...]
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It’s been pointed out to me a few times over the last few days that within a couple of hours of my interview with Manx Radio’s Stuart Peters about Twitter, the site crashed and was down for hours. The implication is that Talking Heads audience members flocked to the microblogging site in droves [...]
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