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Rick's Rambles

Our local media is dead. Long live our local media.

Smoking Gun PR MD Rick Guttridge reflects on a failing media industry, and its potential rebirth in the face of a renewed emphasis on localised information.
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Five tools to enhance social media content

We guide you through some of the best digital and social media tools to boost your online PR pull, and better yet, none of them are particularly expensive.
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Case Study: How to Craft A Cheese

With 288 media hits, and social media growth of some 90%, our public relations campaign for Butlers did its job. Here's how we managed to achieve those results.
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February 2013 in the Smoking Gun Study

Exciting times at this particular Spinningfields public relations agency, with business opportunities and new staff abound
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Simply unmissable: Volume 13

The Harlem Shake, what Harlem folk think of the Harlem Shake, goats shouting, and other online gems should make for a break from all that high speed media work.
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A few thoughts on Google, content bias and dodgy PRs

With the world's biggest search engine asking a website to 'tone down' negative news old questions about the digital media giant may need to be asked again.
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The Blagger's Blog

The Blagger's Blog 22nd February 2013

Our media roundup cometh: George Osborne's money worries, US PR stunt sees huskies soaking up sunshine, woman hides from journalist under desk, and Twitter opens new advertising API.
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Infographic: Pinterest for marketing

As with all social networks, since the image ‘pinning’ site Pinterest launched there has been speculation as to how it can work for brands. Well it seems the site is catching up with the likes of Twitter and Facebook in the marketing stakes. The site has just signed a deal with NBC’s popular show ‘The … Continued
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The Blagger's Blog

The Blagger's Blog 15th February 2013

Smoking Gun's media and PR roundup, today with IKEA promoting sex, many BAFTA wins, Egypt blocking YouTube, the Carnival Cruise nightmare, and payment by tweet.
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Local television set for Manchester (will people watch it?)

As the city prepares for a brand new addition to its burgeoning media and creative landscape we ponder on whether YourTV will realise its potential.
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The Blagger's Blog 8th February 2013

More bad beef in Britain, the new auto-pancake making machine, GCSEs not to change (as much), more kids face an impoverished childhood, and other media news.
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The Business Show: an introduction to social media for business

Today some of the team spent an interesting day at The Business Show at Old Trafford, Manchester where our MD, Rick Guttridge, gave a talk about getting started in social media for business. The idea was to share our many learnings in the field and provide tips on everything from how to start, what tools … Continued
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Twitter buys into social TV analytics, big time

The 140-character giant has bought Bluefin Labs, a company that studies what people say about brands and television programmes via social media.
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