Category: Public Relations

  • Twitter as a public service

    What a great initiative announced yesterday by the city of San Francisco – enable citizens to use Twitter as one of the means through which they can use the city’s 311 online information and services network. […] you will be…

  • Making the European elections visible

    I was thinking about the elections to the European Parliament coming up later this week and the fact that the only information I’ve received about them have been flyers through the letterbox from particular political parties. Hardly impartial (and no…

  • Audio sharing and growing pains

    The Guardian had a good story yesterday about Audioboo, the audio-sharing service (and social network) that I started using in March. Audioboo is primarily an iPhone app where you record up to five minutes of audio that the app uploads…

  • HP’s new OfficeJet Pro 8500 on trial

    How cost effective is your printer in terms of consumables like paper and ink or toner? Does it use a lot of electricity to run? Is it environmentally friendly in terms of manufacture, day-to-day operation and ultimate disposal? These are…

  • JournalistTweets: more than just a directory

    If you want to find journalists who use Twitter, there are quite a few directories out there already. A new entrant from business intelligence firm Cision, launched today, looks like it could be the place users will find of great…