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The Blagger's Blog

The Blagger's Blog 28th September 2012

U.S. economic growth revised downwards, Kanye West sex tape, Downton Abbey, Rainforest Alliance advert, and homophobic PR fails. Another week in the media.
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Social Media

The power of a tweet

From Amanda Holden to Katherine Jenkins and Daniel Thomas, we take a sideways glance at the social media muscles being flexed in the last month.
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Media News

Heineken- shaken, not stirred

With the new Bond movie just weeks away everyone's talking about 007, not least in the context of product placements and the rejection of Martini for lager.
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Marketing News

How to sell and influence people

In the wake of Apple finishing on top of the UK Coolbrands list, we ask the eternal question: "What makes a brand cool?"
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September 2012 in the Smoking Gun Study

Another full month here on Quay Street has seen two new clients, and a host of high profile public relations campaigns keeping us busy.
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Social Media

Simply unmissable 9

A seagull steals a camera and films a fly over of San Francisco before returning it to the rightful owner, but even more surprisingly MySpace is coming back.
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Infographic – Likeing brand's on Facebook

At Smoking Gun PR we’re all keen users of social media personally as well as professionally. As a result we understand how important a Facebook page can be for a brand. This week’s infographic looks more closely at the relationships between consumers and brand pages. A hat tip to Lab42 for creating the infographic.
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Social Media

PM Cameron to open Twitter account- what should his name be?

The Prime Minister himself will be tweeting from his own profile before October 10th. Questions remain over what moniker he will adopt, we can think of a few.
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Media News

Tony Murray

T Time: No Bread and Discuses

Our roving editor and man of many opinions, Tony Murray, finds himself knee deep in media distractions, from Kate Middleton's assets to Take That clones.
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The Blagger's Blog

The Blagger's Blog 21st September 2012

Bankers under fire, what the papers say, Twitter support Manchester Police, Mitt Romney 47 per cent PR fail, dates for the diary and next week's predictions.
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Social Media

To tweet or not to tweet (the subject is the question)?

Footballer Daniel Thomas will not be prosecuted for his homophobic comments on Twitter regarding to Team GB divers. But what do you think?
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Social Media

Required reading: Tim Berners Lee on The Drum

The World Wide Web inventor waxed lyrical in a recent interview about future predictions and the role of newspapers in our digital age. We muse on the latter.
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Chris Moyles' final BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show

So it’s finally here. The day some have dreaded and some have been waiting for a long time. Chris Moyles has just ended a record breaking 15 year stint as the voice, face and some would say ego of the BBC’s youth radio station. The show was produced in front of a select live audience … Continued
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