Third Thursday

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 [...]

Strive PR is hiring!

Are you a recent PR graduate or do have you recently gained a CIPR diploma? Perhaps you’ve earned a degree in journalism, media studies or English? If you’ve answered yes to any of these questions and are looking to take your first step in a PR career we might have just the [...]

Strive PR e-newsletter

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 [...]

Spring, a time for renewal in PR

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Two weeks ago I made the decision to change a few things for a month to see what happens. I’ve cut back some of the volunteer work, taken my foot off the bizdev pedal.outsourced some admin and have spent as much time as is possible getting back to basics. That [...]

Social networking is a dinner party

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Imagine somebody is having a dinner party – inviting your customers, staff, shareholders and regulators – and you are not there.
That is the scenario Strive PR’s managing partner Sherrilynne Starkie laid before those attending a professional development seminar at the International Business School on March 17.
All of these people have links to you and [...]

Blog spring cleaning

Strive Notes is about to undergo a major makeover and in preparation we’re doing a little spring cleaning.  We’ve tidied up the blog roll by removing the excess verbiage and have added a few blogs that we’ve been reading for a long time now (should have been added ages ago!).
Watch this space for more change [...]

UTalkMarketing covers Hospice IoM

UTalkMarketing, the portal for marketing professionals, is running a case study on our campaign for Hospice Isle of Man.
Our goal had been to get as many Isle of Man residents as possible to visit the new Hospice facility during it’s open week.  Seven thousand people took the tour.  We were pleased with the result.

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Insight reader competition winner

We decided to do some ‘dead tree marketing’ a few weeks ago with Insight, Strive PR’s newsletter for clients and friends in the Isle of Man. In it we ran a reader competition with a bottle of bubbly up for grabs.
All the correct answers went into the hat and the lucky winner is Laura Howland, [...]

Happy Birthday Strive Notes

Yes it’s true. We’re toddling along properly now that we’ve turned two years old.  Strive Notes was launched in 2 March 2006 as a ‘virtual watercooler’ for Strivers.  Since that time, we’ve gone from being a virtual agency to a ‘combination’ model with our  virtual consultants being supported by an ‘real’ office of PRs in [...]