19 June 2011 ~ 3 Comments

Combining car launches and social media

Last week I attended the second social media forum for PR professionals and journalists run by MIPAA – the Motor Industry Public Affairs Association – which was (as with the first) a very useful and interesting event. Talk included social media etiquette between journalists and PR people surrounding launches, such as ‘would tweeting information from [...]

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10 February 2011 ~ 0 Comments

44th and proud

There are all sorts of ways of measuring the usefulness of taking part in Twitter. For me, as a home worker, it provides one of the few things I miss about working in a large office – the banter. But better than that, it’s banter I can turn off to concentrate on tasks that will [...]

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09 April 2010 ~ 1 Comment

When automated tweets don’t work

There are all sorts of services that will automate your Twitter activity, but you need to show a bit of intelligence when you set them up otherwise you could end up sending pointless tweets that do your brand harm, not good. I know this, because the following just happened to me… I tweeted a few [...]

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