Author: Becky Green (was McMichael)

PR Week UK ups its digital presence

Posted on by Becky Green (was McMichael)

PR Week has kicked off a couple of new activities aimed at the UK’s digital PR folks today – Peter Hay, digital editor, upped his Twitter activity picking up a host of new followers and the mag launched a facebook group for UK PR folks.

There has been a Twitter feed set up from PR Week UK for a while (hat tip Chris Reed at Fishburn Hedges) but the personal tweets should be a great addition to this.

Up to now, other than conferences on the topic and a small column in the tech sector highlighting industry bloggers, the magazine hasn’t had a very large UK digital focus or presence.

We’re looking forward to hearing about future plans in this area though.

Cross posted on Ruder Finn’s blog

professional nomads – recommendation #1

Posted on by Becky Green (was McMichael)

natexheaderChances are if you work from home a lot and travel for business, you book a fair amount of train tickets.  I was recommended the National Express site by pal and fellow collocator, Stephen Waddington last week and it seems great.  There was far more availablity that Trainline, lower prices and it seemed a lot more flexible about changing tickets etc (although i have yet to try the latter).

My rating: ****

someone once told me

Posted on by Becky Green (was McMichael)

Someone Once Told Me, Mario CacciottoloCame across this last week through a direct message on twitter from Mario Cacciottolo asking if I would have my pic taken for a new art project and hadn’t heard much about it…..in the tradition of good PR though, by lunchtime Saturday I had seen people discussing it on Twitter and read a review of it in The Guardian Guide.

Billed by said paper as:

“A compelling photography project. The idea is simple: people are photographed at random or by appointment, holding up sheets of paper with the words of something that was once told to them that has stuck in their minds ever since – whether it was a text message from a mate or words of wisdom from a grandparent.”

The site looks great – as intriguing as Post A Secret was when I first came across combined with Mario’s evident talent for interesting and stylish photography.

I am looking forward to doing mine early next month now.