Pickle Jar Communications

I thought I’d just share with my readers a little letter that I have just sent to another PR/Marketing company in response to an unsolicited marketing mailing that they sent me. I usually receive these kind of mailings warmly and with respect to the sender, but this person got the basics so wrong, that here [...]

I know I am always banging on about how PR people need to rethink this and rethink that, but today David Cushman has posted a really useful presentation on slideshare that really helps PR people to visualise the differences and challenges them to find ways to engage with what he calls ‘P2PR’ (I like this [...]

We’ve just created a new Handy Guide, though this time it’s in the form of a slidecast. This is designed as an introduction for companies thinking about trying to engage with blogs or create their own corporate blog as a means of raising their profile or communicating with their stakeholders. Handy Guide: Corporate Blogging View [...]

I’ve decided to play around with Animoto again this time to make a little compilation video of photos from our 1st Birthday party:

I promised in a blog post the other day that I would update you all on what we’ve been up to lately and what has been keeping us too busy to blog (not that there’s ever really any excuse not to blog of course!). Firstly, we were called up about six weeks ago by the [...]

Yesterday evening we celebrated Pickle Jar Communications’ 1st Birthday at The Earlsdon Cottage. We always receive excellent customer service from The Cottage but this time they excelled themselves and went that extra mile by fulfilling our quirky request to serve our guests jars of pickles, and labelling those jars up with the PJC logo without [...]

Just been playing with animoto to see if I can create a short video for the Pickle Jar Communications first birthday party tomorrow. The challenge is to see how the high res dvd version works (if at all) on a large plasma screen. I expect it will struggle, but good for online versions.

I attended a Higher Education External Relations Association (HEERA) meeting week before last as a representative of the CIPR’s Education and Skills group. They were chatting about different events that they might put on. Having recently become aware of Wilkes University’s highly targetted advertising campaign that ran in Spring 2007, I mentioned this to them [...]

Goodness me, it has been over two weeks since my last post! My have I been a busy bunny of late. More on that soon, but I thought I’d just doing a very quick post this morning while I am suffering insomnia induced by a tickly cough that seems to be building in my throat. [...]