Erica Douglas, author of Little Mummy blog, shares her thoughts with us about the world of blogging and why its changed her life

Sky 1 invested less than BBC1, ITV1, Channel 4 and BBC 2 on original programming, with Channel 5 being the only major to fork out less on production

Social media agency Smoking Gun PR warns of the dangers of the latest Facebook security threat, the bogus 'dislike' button

Never a team to miss an opportunity, Manchester PR agency Smoking Gun saw this shot of Corrie actress Helen Flanagan in the national press and spotted an opportunity to PR an exciting new product launch...

Read the views of a North West PR and social media agency on the masterpiece Old Spice integrated digital marketing campaign and view a video case study.

David Cameron’s awareness of the value of PR shines through again but boy does he need it. He may have neatly side stepped a PR blunder over milk but his recent gaffes have left him branded a 'klutz' and in dire need of crisis and reputation management support - the type of PR brief the team at Smoking Gun relishes.

The Lady Boys of Bankok came back to town for their 10th annual visit

The One Step Too Far advert campaign was designed by the Welsh Assembly Governement to help educate men on the issue of sexism and on the implications their actions can have on women. In order to further the work of the Welsh Assembly, the Smoking Gun team descended on the streets of Cardiff and spent 24 hours filming to help generate debate around the serious issue.

It's global Social Media Day being organised by the good folks at Mashable and there's a great event taking place tonight at 7pm in Manchester with a good mixture of speakers thanks to Nigel Collier and his team at Studio Skylab. We're pleased to be able to help out ChiChi from Realfresh TV with an 'armchair chat' discussing Panda Licorice.

A trip around the BBC in Manchester lets you see the North West Tonight studio, have ago at presenting the weather and even gives you some more information about the exciting move from Oxford Road to it's new home in Media City.

Does day dreaming help increase creativity at work? How can daydreaming be beneficial to you? For instance can it help you to rehearse the changes you want to make in your life? Be a good stress reliever, simply give you a break? All of those things. Specifically day-dreaming helps you, personally or vicariously, to imagine future events or recall past ones.

The World Cup marketing battleground has just got even bloodier with the unveiling of this, ahem, little effort from Nike! Like the Carlsberg World Cup ad it's star laden with fantastic production values. Whilst Carlsberg's effort focuses in on the raw power of what the World Cup means to fans, this one has much more football action and some cheeky nods to the superstar status and marketing power a great World Cup can bring players in the modern social media savvy world. But enough pre-match chatter, onto the action and judge for yourself which ad wins. For what it's worth I think we're into a penalty shoot out...

For anyone who thinks social media is a fad or only for media types, this updated film will change your mind forever!