Pickle Jar Communications

My good friend Ellie Lovell has ‘tagged’ me in an activity where I am now expected to reveal 25 things that you didn’t know about me, just a pile of random facts. As it’s Saturday, I thought I’d have a go for fun: 1. I am a an Essex girl, having been born and raised [...]

Colleagues at the National B2B Centre have kindly included the Pickle Jar Communications blog as a case study on blogging for business on their website. We’re rather flattered to be profiled in this way, and thought we might follow that up with a little extra support of our own. So, if you’ve arrived at this [...]

As many of you know, I’m a big Twitter fan and manage three profiles: @tracyplayle @picklejar and @hecomms. Each serve a very different purpose for me. @tracyplayle is where I post my more personal tweets – the kind of daily ramblings that really only my mates would probably want to hear (though it seems many [...]

I wouldn’t ordinarily post a press release here as it isn’t the most appropriate format for a blog. However, as we are sponsoring the Birmingham Twestival, I thought I’d indulge myself a little and include the press release here: BIRMINGHAM TO JOIN 100 CITIES ACROSS THE WORLD IN FUNDRAISING ‘TWESTIVAL‘ On February 12th 2009 Birmingham [...]

I received an email earlier this week from animoto alerting customers that they’ve just entered an agreement with istockphoto. For quite some time now I’ve been showing clients animoto, particularly when I’m out and about doing social media training, as it’s a wonderful way of creating high-impact videos for your site without the costs normally [...]

There are some good social media monitoring services out there offering comprehensive monitoring solutions, such as Radian 6. I’ve had a demo of Radian 6 and it really is very impressive, but this does come at a price. I’m therefore always on the look out for good search services and monitoring services available for free. [...]