Category: Professional Development

  • Expanding the scope of EuroBlog 2008

    The EuroBlog 2008 conference in Brussels, which ended on Saturday, brought together about 100 people from the worlds of PR academia and PR practice from across Europe and from the USA. The event was billed as "Social media and the…

  • Social media and the future of PR

    I’m heading to Brussels tomorrow to participate in EuroBlog 2008, a two-day conference that mashes up academia and PR to produce an event that I’m sure will be worth the time of everyone attending, speakers and guests alike. This is…

  • Ten tips for encouraging blog comments

    A couple of days ago, someone forwarded me a request from a journalist writing a piece for a national UK paper about social networking. The journalist’s questions were a little unclear: I need ‘ten top tips’ for social networking, what…

  • Social networks from the Financial Times

    BrandRepublic reports that the Financial Times’ conferences arm has launched a pay-to-join membership forum so that media and technology executives working in the digital, new media, mobile and telecoms sectors can network. Not only a forum for people in this…

  • 26-Week Internet Marketing Plan

    If you’re in charge of the marketing function in your business then you can’t afford not to manage your own internet marketing strategy. That’s the premise behind the 26 Week Internet Marketing Plan, an audio-visual training course from Edinburgh-based Purple…