November 13, 2009 / Social media / Susan Reid
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
November 2, 2009 / Social media / Fiona Kendall
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
October 8, 2009 / AppealPR News / Susan Reid
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
September 2, 2009 / AppealPR News, Public relations, Social media / Susan Reid
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
July 30, 2009 / AppealPR News, Marketing, Social media / Susan Reid
There can be no doubt that 2009 has been the Year of Twitter – everyone’s doing it from celebrities to government ministers (not to mention the US President) and there’s even talk of makin
July 24, 2009 / AppealPR News / Les Able
In those far off days when newspapers were populated by hard drinking hacks and old Imperial typewriters cluttered the desks of smoke ridden newsrooms the impending arrival of personal c
July 22, 2009 / AppealPR News, Public relations, Social media / Paul Snape
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