Jo’s PR top five

Exciting week for me so far, a promotion!  And with the new job title comes a slightly new blog. Something a little different with less about what I am doing and more about what I am reading.
Bare in mind this is new to me so I am keeping it fairly simple to start with. It’s [...]

Do you STRIVE for more?

Yes? Then Strive Public Relations may be the place for you. We’re looking to build our Isle of Man team to deliver inspired communications programmes to both Manx and UK-based clients. We are looking for at least two Media Mavens and two Mavens In Waiting.
We’re virtual and that means flexible. So if [...]

New Media Age top 100

Global Beach, the digital marketing agency, has been listed in the UK’s top 15 agencies by trade publication New Media Age.  It’s the second such accolade for Strivers’ clients this week. 
The magazine quoted Global Beach’s executive creative director Dan Northover. “The challenge is to get good people and then hang on to them, and we’ve [...]

Junior Achievement Isle of Man

Yesterday more than 250 high school students were on hand for the launch of Junior Achievement’s new Introduction to Business Programme at the Methodist Promenade Church in Douglas in the Isle of Man.
At the day-long event, students took part in a business game designed to simulate real life business situations. The game, devised by OSA Recruitment, [...]

Strive to the rescue of RSS virgins

I know that most bloggers are pretty keen on RSS syndication, and quite right too.  But I have a feeling that there are quite a few Strivers out there that might not yet have gotten their heads around the technology. 
That’s why today we launched Strive Live News Feeds on Strive’s home page.  Now all you [...]

News Release…Strive PR Partner Named Pet Lover of the Year

DOUGLAS, Isle of Man, April 1 /StriveNotes/ — The International Association of Pet Lovers today named Strive Public Relations Managing Partner, Sherrilynne Starkie, The 2006 Pet Lover of the Year.  The award was made in recognition of Ms Starkie’s life-long love of all things fluffy.
“Sherrilynne’s loving attitude toward furry creatures made her a natural choice for [...]

Striver Rita Rich gives ’sound’ advice…

I saw a product review in InformationWeek on a new service from Gcast that supposedly makes producing a Podcast ‘as easy as making a phone call’. And I thought to myself, I should try this!  I thought I’d ask Strive Partner Rita Rich, the radio expert, her opinion on the service.  As you know, Rita [...]

Birthday wishes

Happy Birthday to Ottawa-based Strive partner, Stacey Diffin-Lafleur.  A bricks and mortar agency would have passed a card around for everyone to sign.  Then we would have let Stacey buy us all a drink at lunchtime to celebrate.  I guess this virtual greeting will have to do.  Have a great day Stacey!

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Welcome!

We’ve created this blog, Strive Notes, as a kind of ‘online water cooler’.  Strive Public Relations is a virtual company and our teams work from many locations around the world.  This business model has tons of benefits for our clients and consultants alike.  It keeps costs down, increases productivity & quality, improves clients’ access to high-level [...]