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Six months in: A look back…and forwards

December 17, 2008 – 4:59 pm

In the summer I left the ample bosom of ITV Publicity to join the broadcaster’s corporate communications team. Communications director Mark Gallagher gave me the perfect opportunity to channel my enthusiasm for all things web into the corporate engine room of ITV by appointing me as PR Manager for what was then ITV Consumer. I’d [...]

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Red Cross leading the way with social media

June 24, 2008 – 10:07 pm

Last year we were all a Twitter with the myriad of ways in which social media could make life more interesting. Now, it seems, we are starting to discover ways in which social media can actually improve, and in some cases, save lives. 
I heard recently that the latest organisation to reap the benefits of social [...]

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Saul Klein says ‘buy social’ (well, he would)

May 28, 2008 – 10:14 am

One of Europe’s top VCs has urged big media European media companies to buy social networks, say Reuters.
In an article that was shocking for the single reason that it was deemed newsworthy by Reuters, it’s been revealed that Index Ventures’ Saul Klein told the Reuters (geddit?) Technology, Media and Telecoms gig that ”new audiences are not in newspapers [...]

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Dare’s picks of the week

May 26, 2008 – 7:51 pm

I’ve been on holiday for the last week, so here’s an admitedly lazy post featuring some of the digital news as served up by the digital agency we work with, Dare. So, credit here goes to Rachel Filer at said agency. I’ll post these when we get them as the guys and gals at Dare [...]

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