I saw this today and thought what a great idea! GolfCross is the new style golf game which uses a rugby shaped ball instead of a round one! You have to hit the ball into a high, rugby style goal!! Cool! Read the rest of this entry »
I wanted to talk about this in my blog as the green issue is rapidly spiraling to the forefront of everyone’s mind and it’s getting on my nerves. I just received a press release about lessening our impact on the environment in which, it states that there are huge variations in individual greenhouse gas emissions. Is this news? You’d have to be stupid not to have figured that out already. Read the rest of this entry »
So, after singing the praises of PR Week in an earlier blog post I thought I’d better subscibe to the web site so I could access interesting articles about PR on the web and web 2.0, that everyone in marketing or PR seems to be talking about at the moment. I wanted to read advice on how to win in this complicated arena. Read the rest of this entry »
Just saw this on Digg - Food Network Running McDonalds Subliminal Ads
I think this is a serious issue yet few people on digg seem to agree. If it’s true, it’s a violation of your rights and a dangerous thing. Whether or not McDonalds were a party to this or not I don’t know but subliminal advertising does work - if it didn’t why would it be illegal? It’s a serious issue that shouldn’t be taken lightly and if McD’s are doing this they should be brought to trial for it. Read the rest of this entry »
I saw this piece on Howstuffworks.com. It’s about how digg works. It’s great as if you don’t know what blogging and digging is all about - you can start here - like me! Happy digging…..
Mediadisk is a PR contacts database which holds the details of journalists working at every newspaper, magazine, TV station, radio station, website and newsletter that you could imagine. It’s a fantastic program and is aninvaluable tool for anyone doing PR in the UK. Read the rest of this entry »
I recently got sent some junk mail from The Sun Holidays for £9.50 offer which they are about to start plugging again. It annoys me as we got totally stitched up last year by one of their holiday destination partners. Read the rest of this entry »
If everyone else is doing it I suppose I’d better jump in. So here you go, 5 things no-one needs to know about me….
1. I stuck my willy in a plug socket when I was a one year old and it blew me across the room. I survived and have been electric in bed ever since……
The CIPR is the UK’s leading public relations industry professional body and well worth having a look at.
They represent the interests of people working in public relations in the UK and abroad and offer access to information, advice and support, and provide networking and training opportunities through a wide variety of events, conferences and workshops.
I found a report this morning on the excellent Markting Sherpa web site. It’s fantastic and has loads of information on leasons learned in 2006 from marketers accross the world. It has a free downloadable 60 page PDF to read through to help you with desicions on your campaigns.
The report covers everything from email marketing to social networking and is a useful tool for PR’s, marketers and MD’s alike. Have fun…