The first role of Social Media Club is: talk about Social Media Club! « Brendan Cooper – Your friendly PR social media planner Thoughts on my first social media club London event. It goes to show how interesting a conversation can be when it’s peopled by intelligent, perceptive, communicative people who aren’t drunk. (tags: socialmediaclub [...]
links for 2008-01-18
Murphy’s Law » PR & Twitter… Twitter is an odd beast. No one is quite sure whether or not it’s useful. I’m of the same mind – I just need to a case study of absolute glittering victory to tip me towards liking it, but I’m not there yet. (tags: twitter pneo001 pr murphyslaw) POP! [...]
‘An incompetence’: played, and won!
Gordon Brown has slipped the media a fast one by saying Peter Hain is guilty of ’an incompetence‘. It was one of those occasions where I heard the words but knew something wasn’t quite ‘normal’ about them. When I heard the phrase second time around I loved it. It pitches itself between damnation, and absolute damnation. It’s calling him, by a [...]
Meet the blogger, read the blog: five top tips to help readers get to know you
Often, when going through blogs – as I do for example when looking at entries in the PR Friendly Index – I want to know more about the bloggers. I find it interesting to see what they do for a living, what they’re trying to achieve with the blog, and what sort of content to [...]
Google Reader needs to speed up
I’ve recently found Google Reader to be tediously slow. This is a major obstacle to its usability and take-up. For example, I’m looking to move house and had the bright idea that I could take advantage of some forward-looking estate agents who issue RSS feeds of their searches. So far, so good – but when [...]
My Biggest Influencers are… me, myself, I
Interesting one, this. Cece Lee was tagged for a meme on Your Biggest Influencers and, in turn, tagged me. It’s a funny thing, and I don’t want to come across as weird (or, at least, more weird than I already am), but I honestly don’t think I’m influenced by anyone. Really, I’ve tried hard to [...]
Brendan Cooper’s PR Friendly Index for January 2008
POST-EDIT: If this all looks terribly familiar, it’s because I just had a bit of a mare with my feeds, so this may have been republished. If so, apologies… First off, let’s take a look at the branding. It’s no longer the PowerPR Index. It’s the PR Friendly Index. I’d been thinking of changing the [...]
Social media: it’s ok to be lazy
Many, many moons ago, I had a vision. No, not one of those funny ones you get after too much Guinness, but an insight into what I would like from a website. I wanted to set one up, but I saw too many barriers. I would either have to host it myself, or get someone [...]


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