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Survey proves value of Digital PR: Twitter users, the most influential online consumers

As client demand for influencer mapping, community building and engagement increases, I came across some interesting statistics that help prove such campaigns are worth their while. A new study announced yesterday by ExactTarget highlights that consumers active on Twitter are the most influential online. The report reveals that Tweeters are three times more likely to [...]

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In the wake of a PR crisis, time to reflect

I really enjoyed listening to this Guardian podcast on ‘reasons to be cheerful’ despite the glum economic environment. A key topic was Tony Hayward’s departure from BP, and with it, the end of some truly lamentable public statements. Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you’ll know that Mr. Hayward plus the word ‘gaffe’ have [...]

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Firefly PR finishes charity ‘Race for Life’

Yesterday evening at approximately 7.30pm, Firefly joined 5,000 women to take part in Cancer Research’s Race for Life in Battersea Park in support of a great cause. I’m happy to report that we all managed to reach the finish line: as an average, we did 5K in 41 minutes, with the top runner clocking in at [...]

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Firefly Selected by Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR) for Awareness-Raising Campaign

Following a competitive, four-way pitch, Firefly Communications has secured a strategic brief to strengthen CEDR’s reputation by raising awareness for the expanse of the its services and capabilities. These include expert mediation in personal and commercial disputes; conflict management in the workplace; advanced negotiation skills; and how to use structured dialogue in a variety of [...]

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“Hi, how are you? Are you interested in buying my wares?” said Bob, who then turned his back and walked away.

  Do you ever strike up a conversation and midway through it, walk away?  I bet you don’t in real life, unless you’re a very rude person. Start as you mean to go on, by following it through. Looking at the three points in my previous blog post about ‘resisting conversations’, I still have a few [...]

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Why not maximise your online presence?

Reading NMA’s article on ‘Top brands failing to use social media to fullest potential‘  one key fact caught my eye – only 15% of ‘superbrands’ link their social media activity with their communications strategy by linking back to their main websites. This particularly low figure would suggest that the majority of ‘superbrands’ prefer to separate [...]

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Check-in, Please!

Lately we’ve seen the emergence of a new kind of social media: localisation services such as FourSquare, Gowalla, Plyce or Veniu, as well as mash-ups like TellMeWhere. Most are based on the model whereby people share their locality among their network of friends and possibly include some (hopefully) positive recommendations about the place they’re visiting [...]

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Monitoring solutions – When will it stop?

Over the last couple of years, I have seen a plethora of bold new social media monitoring solutions promising to cut through the unstructured chaos of online conversations.  Are we ever going to see a consolidation?  Only yesterday I came across a wiki, providing me with a list of 130 solutions, I just wonder how [...]

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Social media, proof of the pudding

  Proof and measurement of online engagement is critical, especially if we as PRs are to get our clients as enthused in social media activities as we would like. While we must measure engagement, reputation and sentiment, being naturally pre-occupied with outcome-based results businesses also need tangible proof, such as number of downloads, comments, click-throughs, [...]

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