Pickle Jar Communications

We have just published a new ‘handy guide’ to the Pickle Jar Communications website. Get Tweeting looks at the marketing communications opportunities for organisations interested in using Twitter.

I keep saying this and I will say it again – I love Twitter. I am a big fan. This week as I was updating the Pickle Jar Communications website, I was twittering about my progress. This was simply done as an update to what we have been upto at PJC – not with the [...]

I’m delighted. I’m chuffed to bits. I’m estatic … I’m now an ‘expert’ on PR on LinkedIn! If you’ve been following my blog this week, you might have spotted my post earlier this week pondering just how many questions one should actually answer on LinkedIn. This is because I’ve began answering questions on LinkedIn in [...]

We’re delighted to announce that we launched our new website this week. As with any successful website, we aim for it to be an ever evolving project, but we’re happy with the results so far. New features include a Twitter feed (anyone reading this blog for a while will know what a big fan I [...]

I use LinkedIn fairly regularly as a means of maintaining and extending my professional network. I’ve also more recently stepped up my activity on there by answering questions that other members of the community post. I’ve already had one person tell me that they would like to include my answer in their blog along with [...]

There’s no harm in a little bit of silliness on a Monday morning, now, is there? A good friend of mine has developed his own little ‘friend’ – Spaceman Steve (don’t ask). Spaceman Steve keeps popping up all over the place and this morning, look where he popped up. It’s a novel approach to marketing [...]

I recently received the photographs from the Fast Forward challenge final that I managed on behalf of Ideas for Life TV. Just because I’m proud of the teams that took part and proud of pulling this series together, I thought I’d share the picture of the winning team from Woodway Park School along with the [...]

In my role as Events Officer for the CIPR Education and Skills Sector Group, I have been organising a conference on the role that new media plays in crisis communications. I am very excited about this conference because we have such a great line up: – Peter Reader, University of Portsmouth (and all-round crisis comms [...]

I had a wry smile to myself today as I read Tariq Tahir’s article in the THES, ‘The Queen for a Day’. Reading others’ experiences of hosting a royal visit took me back a few years to a former role at the University of Warwick. It’s not quite to the scale of Joan Concannon’s experience [...]

I love reading updates from Mashable – the social networking blog – and their posts often provide content for my own blog posts for all the right reasons. Sadly, though, today they’re forming a blog post for all the wrong reasons. I decided while grabbing a quick bite to eat this lunchtime to delve into [...]