Using a Blog as the central Public Relations tool for a general or internal event can add really weight to the publicity and profile that it can achieve, as well as providing the perfect focal point for other marketing and promotional activities supporting it. The Event might be a conference, a seminar (or a series…
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This is a true story! It started when I made an appointment to chat to a meditation teacher about some stuff that was going on for me. He forgot. No biggie, it happens. A few days later I called two friends who said they would get back to me and both forgot. I called a…
The other morning I woke up grumpy. It was Monday, it should have been Sunday and I was not a happy bunny. The very last thing I felt like doing was walking the dogs, but the only thing worse than walking Pebbles, is not walking her. Without a walk to take the edge off her…
My husband and I recently discovered House MD, the series. We love it, or at least Season One, it kind of deteriorates after a while! Anyway, one of my favourite parts is Dr House’s absolute certainty that “Everybody lies.” While his brutal methods of extracting the truth makes for good TV, the unfortunate reality is…
Pebbles was our adored Jack Russell who died unexpectly earlier this year. She was an enthusiastic and wholehearted little being who came with a tiny design flaw. A weak bladder. This meant that too much excitement, or being shouted at, led to a small, but unwelcome puddle. For some reason I was thinking about an…
Steve Rubel highlighted last week a perfect example of the speed that news can be spread by the use of blogging in his article Gmail down, Bloggers know before Press, as it became clear that word of gmail being down spread around the blogosphere before being reported by traditional online press. If we take this a step…
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Always remember to put up a profile up on your Business Blog and let people know who they are dealing with. All Blogs, and not just personal blogs, are essentially personal in outlook and not just another website full of product information and advertising speak. That’s why they work so well in communicating ideas and…