Posts Tagged Social media

November 13, 2009 / Social media / Susan Reid

Will 2010 Be the Year of the Political Tweet?

Will 2010 Be the Year of the Political Tweet?

As the long anticipated General Election  approaches, it will be interesting to see how the social media revolution will impact on campaigning.  The media circus that accompanies every election i

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November 2, 2009 / Social media / Fiona Kendall

They Say Life Begins at 40

They Say Life Begins at 40

Last week marked the 40th birthday of the internet - at 10.30pm on 29 October 1969, the first ever telephone line message was sent from a computer at UCLA in Los Angeles to SRI in San Francisco. Altho

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October 8, 2009 / AppealPR News / Susan Reid

Guest Blog - The Benefits of Twitter

Guest Blog – The Benefits of Twitter

Richard Barker of digital design agency, Harrison Mann, gives some tips about optimising Twitter for business. Following a discussion with Susan and Paul from Appeal PR about how clients can use so

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September 15, 2009 / Marketing, Public relations, Social media, Yorkshire / Susan Reid

Making the Most of LinkedIn

Making the Most of LinkedIn

I first heard about LinkedIn a couple of years ago and duly signed up having been told that ‘everyone’ was joining.  After a quick five minutes spent creating a brief profile, I thought no more a

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September 2, 2009 / AppealPR News, Public relations, Social media / Susan Reid

Facebook – Employers’ Friend or Foe?

Facebook – Employers’ Friend or Foe?

As I was catching up on the deluge of blogs I subscribe to (there are some really interesting posts out there and it’s worth making the time to keep up with the latest discussions), I was struck by

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August 7, 2009 / Social media, Yorkshire / Paul Snape

Back the bid...

Back the bid…

Just think of it, June 2018, a balmy Saturday evening and a capacity crowd are coming to watch Brazil vs Italy at Elland Road. The recently improving Marketing Leeds are quick off the blocks with

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July 22, 2009 / AppealPR News, Public relations, Social media / Paul Snape

It's still not rocket science

It’s still not rocket science

I’ve never been an advocate of using complex terminology, technical speak and marketing buzz words during my career in PR, and have always found that a straight forward and direct approach to bu

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July 21, 2009 / AppealPR News, Public relations, Yorkshire / Paul Snape

Reaching out...

Reaching out…

Well, its often been said that PR people like the sound of their own voice and the look of their own copy. I disagree, and we have, for many years been very happy being the anonymous people be

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