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Isn’t this delicious?!

MontageHannah — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:11:02 +0000

Most of us regularly use more than one computer and that’s where Delicious, the easy-to-use, free social bookmarking site, really comes in to its own.

Delicious allows you to tag, save, and manage your favourite/useful websites. You simply ‘bookmark’ the web pages that interest you. Think of it as a portable ‘favourites’ facility; wherever you are, whichever computer you’re using, you can still search through your favourite/bookmarked sites online.

Of course, there’s more to it than convenient access to your favourite sites. Not surprisingly, it’s a popular social tool, boasting 5 million users and 150 million bookmarked sites. You can share your discoveries with your friends and family, and use the site’s Network feature to keep track of the Delicious tags and users that interest you

If you would like to check the extent of your delicious network try Network Explorer for extra insight.

And if spotting trends is your thing, the sight has a hotlist on its home page that allows you to check out its most popular tags … simply Delicious!

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Hit tip for the pic:

Uploaded on March 27, 2008
by Matt McGee

Survival Toolkit for Directors and business owners

Matt — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:02:40 +0000

Survival Toolkit for Directors and business owners

Originally uploaded by prbristolblog

They say that now is a perfect time to train your staff in preparation of the up turn in the economy.

With this in mind, would you like up to £1,000 worth of leadership and management skills training for your managers - all for just £135 (excl VAT)?

Visit - http://www.survivaltoolkit.com

PRBristol Jobs: Bath based Account Manager, PR – b2b food and corporate

Matt — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:31:12 +0000

A superb chance to widen your PR portfolio working on a variety of clients in food service and corporate areas for this leading Bath based PR agency.

The role will suit an ambitious and motivated PR professional, with real drive and determination to succeed, and with great writing skills. You need to be able to hit the ground running, so providing you can demonstrate your solid writing skills, your interest and knowledge in public relations as a career, and your sound commercial skills, you will be in a good place to get this job.

Your role will include writing for and working with the media, trade, regional and national to get your clients message across in the correct way, liaising with the client and your team to ensure that all campaigns are managed to budget and on time, and generally ensuring that the client experience of working with the agency is profitable, pleasurable and purposeful.

Really great chance to join an agency with a superb reputation, ambitious growth plans and a secure and solid history, based in beautiful Bath.

You may be at Senior Account Executive level looking for your next step, or already at Account Manager level and seeking a new challenge, please do send in your CV either way.

Elizabeth Snell places marketing, creative and PR people into both permanent and freelance roles in the West of England, and the rest of the UK. With seventeen years experience in PR recruitment, and an extensive contact database, our candidates are always extremely well represented in their job search. Clients and candidates enjoy our innovative, creative, honest and professional approach.

Interested, passionate about the marketing and communications industry and award winning, you can be assured of the very best service in your job or people search, from experienced and dedicated consultants.

Committed to attracting talent from the most junior level of candidates and retaining it in the industry, please visit www.graduateplusuk.co.uk for details of our tailored recruitment solution for graduate and entry level candidates.

The West of England is a stunningly beautiful part of the country, and our major cities and towns here are filled with some of the most brilliant creative talent in the country (as are some of our smaller villages and towns!). The PR and marketing communications industry here is full of motivated, dynamic individuals, with passion and energy - working on international and national clients. Our clients are not looking for candidates who feel that they would like to “retire to the country”, but for intelligent, creative people who would like to enjoy the benefits of living surrounded by simply gorgeous countryside, whilst at the same time being able to work with national and international clients and produce award winning work.

Of course, we are surrounded by the sea and beautiful countryside, all within a half hour drive of any of the major towns and cities, and so you can really experience getting the work-life balance right, without compromising your career.

South West UK - a great place to live and work.

Contact

office@elizabethsnell.co.uk or call 01275 373 455

Media Mouse: Bristol Evening Post and Western Daily Press to become one?

Matt — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:06:22 +0000

Now, I am expecting some Stilton in my Xmas hamper for this!

Rumours abound about the Bristol Evening Post and the Western Daily Press becoming one paper. This may be only speculation but it does follow the trend of merging Sport and Business news desks and ITV news rooms.

Can we assume that this may become the formula across the board with Northcliffe - might we see similar moves with the Western Morning News?

Well, for that one you will definitely have to come through with the Stilton…!

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Hat tip for mouse pic.

Uploaded on March 11, 2007
by Darny

Three different ways to digest the news

Matt — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:21:16 +0000

Sick and tired of the old newspaper or even the mainstream news website? Well, here are three ways to get a different news experience, by tracking several stories at once or even tracking location and popularity.

If you haven’t already bookmarked our PRBristol media centre, please do, as this is a great way of scanning a snapshot of Bristol, UK news and trade PR or media news.

Secondly, if you want to get a handle on breaking news on Digg, then my favourite way (and my screen saver) is Digg swarm, where readers swarm around new stories and make the popular ones grow.
But the winner has to go to Newsmap, an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps to display the enormous amount of information gathered by the site.

Hat tip - Pic by Joris Machielse

Friday Funny: Alfred’s big secret

Matt — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:10:56 +0000

Very funny featured video on our homepage by some of Bristol’s finest.

Uploaded on June 19, 2007
by Walt Jabsco

Finally uncovered, the terrible secret kept buried for 60 years! Filmed in 1 day, edited in 4 hours for On Sight & Panasonic’s short film challenge, part of the Wildscreen 08 festival.

Must See PR and Media Links from PR Bristol.co.uk

Matt — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:10:26 +0000

Here are PRBristol’s interesting PR and media news links for November 12th:

· News: UK consumers to spend 7% less this Christmas - Marketing Week - Consumers are planning to spend 7% less this Christmas compared to last year, according to a survey by Deloitte. The consultancy warns that retailers are facing one of the toughest festive periods for years.

· DMGT to axe 300 jobs in London | Media | guardian.co.uk - Daily Mail & General Trust is set to cut up to 300 staff across its London-based newspapers including the Daily Mail. By Oliver Luft and Ben Dowell.

· BBC Radio 2 broadcasts apology for ‘grossly offensive’ Brand-Ross prank | Media | guardian.co.uk - Short statement describes call to the former Fawlty Towers star Andrew Sachs as ‘unacceptable intrusion’ into private lives. By Haroon Siddique.

Facebooking Obama’s Cabinet

Matt — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:29:55 +0000

This story definitely has legs on Digg.com and shows how far politicians have come when using social media.

“Journalists are already looking into Obama’s highly visible online Cabinet, using Facebook and other social networking sites to gain info on the new team.”

read more | digg story

Paparazzi

Matt — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:04:13 +0000

Paparazzi

“Another day at the office.”

Originally uploaded by internets_dairy

PRIDE AWARDS - CIPR Bristol

Matt — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:04:23 +0000

Another PRide awards has passed us by again and 11 agencies from the 38 in Bristol took part. Notable results were Trimedia taking team of the Year off JBP and Pam Lloyd PR taking Outstanding Small Consultancy.

For me, the most creative campaign this year was Tai Chi farmers for Love OM by Bray Leno, which won the Best Use of New Media this year.

I have put a summary of the Golds below, but if you want to see who missed out or came close take a look at the CIPR website.

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Hat tip - Terren from Virginia for the photo

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Corporate Communications

Entry name: Helping business cut the red tape
Entrant: Montpellier Marketing Communication Group

PR Bristol.co.uk

Isn’t this delicious?!

Survival Toolkit for Directors and business owners

PRBristol Jobs: Bath based Account Manager, PR – b2b food and corporate

Media Mouse: Bristol Evening Post and Western Daily Press to become one?

Three different ways to digest the news

Friday Funny: Alfred’s big secret

Must See PR and Media Links from PR Bristol.co.uk

Facebooking Obama’s Cabinet

Paparazzi

PRIDE AWARDS - CIPR Bristol

Corporate Communications

Community Relations Business and Trade

Community Relations

Best Publication

Outstanding Young Communicator

Outstanding Small Consultancy

Public Sector

Consumer Relations

Best Use of New Media

Best Publication

Best Website or Microsite

Best Event

Outstanding Young Communicator

Outstanding Small Consultancy

Outstanding In-House Public Relations Team

Outstanding PR Consultancy