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#MicroBizMattersDay, 9 January 2015
MicroBizMattersDay is promoting self-help among the self-employed and micro-SME owners, from marketing to construction and beyond. Last year, I mentioned National Freelancers Day, and I visited several...
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Mobile, PR and social media
As a member of the CIPR’s social media panel, I volunteered last year to coordinate production of a guide on “Mobile and public relations“. After persuading a few others to contribute, I wrote about...
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UKSoloPRs tweetchat on Friday 27 February
The first CIPR tweetchat focused on independent PR practitioners is scheduled for Friday 27 February, starting at 12 noon GMT and lasting approximately one hour. The main hashtag will be #CIPRchat...
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Tweetchat helps UK SoloPRs set agenda
A CIPR tweetchat attracting over 60 participants has helped set a direction for UK independent PR practitioners. I participated in two CIPR tweetchats last week. CIPRSM Hackday The first was run as...
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PR use of public images under FOP threat
Photographs including modern buildings and other creative works may fall foul of new European Parliament copyright proposals. New constraints on ‘freedom of panoroma’ may stop PR businesses using...
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City-Insights: hyper-local story-telling
As a construction technology blogger, I sometimes encounter tools that have wider potential including use by communications professionals. City-Insights helps ‘tell stories about places’ via mobile...
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#ProtectFOP or lose your marketing collateral
Proposed EU changes to national Freedom of Panorama (FoP) rights could have a profound potential impact on individuals and organisations taking photographs or videos of modern buildings and sharing...
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Launching a CIPR independent PR practitioners network
Long-term readers of my PR blog will know that I have been seeking to improve CIPR provision for independent practitioners since 2014 when I chaired a CIPR roundtable of independent PR practitioners...
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Epson targets freelancers’ print costs
Epson’s central London pop-up shop gives visitors a space to co-work and to test their new EcoTank printers – which offers the UK’s growing population of freelances and SMEs a cost-effective...
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“Paul, it’s your parkrun anniversary!”
An email landed in my inbox this morning announcing that it was a year since my first Parkrun. It motivated me to write about my past year in running, and to ponder on volunteer communities. I am a...
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