Monday September 1, 2008

• Notes for inspiration and reflection

  KEEP IT SIMPLE!
  What's the problem? Who cares?
  Your solution = Particular>General>Particular
  What? So What? Now What?
  … guide the conversation
  … what spreads wins
  … Don't communicate, facilitate
  … Information interchange - information is a one way street, conversation is not
  … Communication is the transfer of emotion
  All good concepts to adopt for daily interactions but easier said than done.

  I thought that [...]

Thursday May 22, 2008

• e-Petitions … making change happen

  Electronic petions or e-petitions are quite popular at present. Be they about Tibet or women in the  catholic synod they give a very easy way for petitioners to support their favorite cause from the comfort of their computer chair - even if our in-boxes can get overwhelmed by pleas to support right now!
  I have to [...]

Sunday November 11, 2007

• How POLICOMM "… makes change happen"

  … 'making change happen'

  …To achieve this aim it is critical to not only disseminate information and generate awareness but also to employ the disciplines of listening, clarifying and persuading. …The strategies that are the most successful are the ones that utilise the maximum available expertise and that activate the most relevant networks [...]

Tuesday September 25, 2007

• Succeed at Managing your PR and Reputation

  The services POLICOMM offer include:
  * Research on, and analysis of, the relevant political issues of the day.
  * Support for political briefing and contact activities.
  * Identification of key decision makers and policy influencers.
  * Strategic advice on the most effective means of approaching decision-makers.
  * Help in creating strategic alliances and working with third parties.
  * Early warning of [...]

Tuesday July 31, 2007

• Communication with Respect

  The internet is great for finding information and publicising your opinions and views but sadly there is a growing tendency for the intolerance of others' views and there are sustained attempts to abuse and intimidate individuals.
  This issue was recently addressed at a conference: the 5th International forum on Online Dispute resolution in Liverpool, England (I [...]

Monday July 9, 2007

• openess, modernity and oceans?

  The Portugal 2007 logo reveals a Portuguese view of the visual representation of the Presidency of the European Union.
      
  The "Blue flower" is a symbol of today's Portugal: modernity, harmony, the oceans, transparency and openness to the future.
  The petals are arranged freely but concentrically, symbolising the individual contribution of each Member State to the [...]

Wednesday July 4, 2007

• Hello! I'm Gordon Brown. I govern Britain …

  Make friends and influence them …
  A new dawn for Europe; new, new, new and change, change, change for the UK government and Tony Blair is off to the Middle East to form New Hamas and New Fatah.
  You may be skeptical about real change happening or are optimistic for moving forward but the scenery and the [...]

Saturday June 16, 2007

• RSS feed broken

       Some of you may be experiencing trouble with the RSS feeds for this site, my apologies for this. For some reason the feed address has changed and now does not validate. This post is also part of my testing procedures so please bare with me.
  Thanks … Ray
  PS if any one has ideas how to [...]

Wednesday June 6, 2007

• Twitter being added!

  Warning! … I am trying out a new plugin to enable me to make short comments that will appear in the right hand sidebar - Twittering. I am using Alex King's 'Twitter Tools' plugin that uses the Twitter application. Things may go horribly wrong or hopefully work very well. The initial result may be [...]

Tuesday June 5, 2007

• Is the logo a good PR Tool?

  The logo for the 2012 London Olympics has been unveiled.
  The jagged emblem, based on the date 2012, comes in a series of shades of pink, blue, green and orange and will evolve in the run-up to the Games.
  "This is the vision at the very heart of our brand," said London 2012 organising committee [...]

Monday May 14, 2007

• Piracy - How to on the Web - Not a PR Tool

  CrunchGear gives us a Guide to Piracy on the web or rather explains a bit how to download that pirate copy of the latest movie. They say:
  “Piracy” happens, piracy will never go away, and, as a service to you we’ve decided to explain some of its relevant points to the uninitiated. Whatever your stance on [...]

Wednesday May 2, 2007

• Your wish is my command! - RSS Feeds for files

  Some readers would prefer to get RSS feeds for the individual channels rather than for all the posts - So here they are: For an update Digest of all posts: All posts
  For individual Channels:
  PR Tools
  PR_Analysis
  PR_Commentary
  PR Tools You'd Better Believe
  If you’re not familiar with RSS feeds click here to learn [...]

Tuesday May 1, 2007

• How to save time reading the web

  Click To Play

  There are two types of Internet users, those that use RSS and those that don't. This video is for the people who could save time using RSS, but don't know where to start.
  Thanks to Common Craft for producing this video and to Blip.tv for providing the code to place it here and to [...]

Tuesday April 17, 2007

• How to Power your website

  This site is built and powered by WordPress using the Semiologic theme developed by Denis de Bernardy with the implementation of his Semiologic Pro package. Denis and the Semiologic Community Forum give excellent support and problem solving.
  The site uses extensively Plugins found in the Semiologic Pro package and other sources. The use of these Plugins [...]

Friday April 13, 2007

• Cool colours for your PR Tools

  Adobe Labs released a very useful tool for anyone that would like to learn about combining colours or creating what they call colour themes. The tool is called kuler.
  Need to know what accent colors might go with your colour logo?
  Visit kuler, go through the popular combinations, and click on one that contains your [...]

Thursday March 29, 2007

• How to do Distributed Publishing …

  The following article gives an insight to 'distributed publishing'.  (The article appears here using the method described) It is a very long article but worth reading, so I ask you to click on the page 2  link below to read it all at once.

Wednesday March 14, 2007

• Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet

  Have you ever wondered where the junk text you often see in sample templates or trial websites comes from? In short it has been used by printers since the 1500s and actually is not total garbage but is extracts from a latin text written in 45BC.
  Check out www.lipsum.org/   for the what/why and where? info and [...]

Friday February 23, 2007

• Is this the new PR Tool ?

  The popular YouTube, MySpace and Secondlife websites are continuing to grab the IT and PR headlines and are fast becoming the most viewed sites for many people. As well as the frivolous, personal or scandalous content some serious content is featuring in the top ten lists.
  Who would have thought that a video made by [...]

Monday February 5, 2007

• Who gave me this? … the Business Card ritual

  UPDATE:  Patrick Carney of Referrals for Life gives us:
  Ten Commandments of Networking at a Business Event
  Sound advice - reflect now on which commandment do you break most often.
  Originally posted 06 june 2006
  >> Chris Brogan at The Business Card Game - lifehack.org reminds us again of the use of the Business Card ritual.
  Do you [...]

Friday February 2, 2007

• Your Contribution to Global Warming or is it just PR?

  On the eve of todays UN report that points the finger at all of us for warming up our planet, many city landmarks in Europe turned off the lights for 5 minutes. A gesture to bring attention to the issue of global warming. I had good intentions of personally doing it but simply forgot to [...]