List/Grid Tag Archives: Advice
5 Things to Remember when Blogging this Year
This time last year I wrote an article for ProBlogger entitled “8 Reasons Why Students Should Blog”. The post is still well received to this day with over 600 re-tweets!…
5 Tips for Building your PR Campaigns this year
Introducing social media elements to a public relations campaign requires more focus than tailoring content for Twitter and Facebook (which really is a 2008 mentality). Instead, we should focus on…
How I landed myself a Graduate PR Role
It is my aim in this blog post to provide an honest overview of my graduate scheme search and how I landed my upcoming graduate role at Red. This is…
Don’t fall at the first hurdle…
Elly Russell is a final year student at the University of Brighton who is studying (BA) Hons Business Studies with Marketing. She has a strong interest in Digital Marketing, loves…
New Website allows UK Students to sell and buy used books
My name is Joanne Brady and I am the founder of TheBookPond.com. I am a graduate of The University of Hull, and of Durham University, and I am a mother…
Facebook is not a PR Godsend
I’ll begin this article by casting my mind back to early 2010. As part of a second year University assignment (overseen by the observant Richard Bailey) we had to deliver…
The CIPR Must Play a Stronger Role in CIPR Approved Courses
UPDATE (16/02/2012): THE CIPR’S RESPONSE TO THIS POST HAS NOW BEEN POSTED HERE. The Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) must do more to support their student members. Graduate unemployment…
Piracy is not the Answer
Being a student is tough. Further education isn’t just about the pain of reading countless textbooks and spending days in seclusion writing a dissertation. It is learning how to live…
A Question over Microsoft’s Perceived Twitter Strategy
Whilst I worked at Microsoft UK I often stared in disbelief how interns were allowed to take full control over official Microsoft Twitter account presences. Most interns had no prior…
SEO is a Crucial Component of Public Relations
My grandad called yesterday to announce he had “found a great company online called Finlux”. According to their website they are the world’s third largest television manufacturer. A look over…
Dealing with Social Media Crisis Management
Guess what? Social media isn’t new anymore. We all know how to use the tools and I still stand by my blog post from June that social media ‘experts’ are…
3 Blogs I Love (and you will love too)
Each day I read a variety of different blogs and the three listed below are my favourites. We should all take the below authors as examples to improve our own…
