Category Archives for PR

Seek or Shout was named winner of Acquia’s Partner Sites of the Year Award in the Social category, for its partnership with Drupal developers Isovera. Seek or Shout is a PR and media social community from Cision that will soon be launched in the UK. The Acquia award recognises the design, user experience, multimedia and [...]

SoGlos is an award-winning online magazine covering entertainment and the arts in Gloucestershire. Recently nominated in the Online Media Awards for Best Local/Regional News Site, the website is run by publisher James Fyrne and his partner Michelle Fyrne, who is the editor. James talked to Cision about SoGlos’ new internship programme, working online and being [...]

Video is increasingly becoming the medium of choice for web users, with Dynamics Media reporting that video consumption has grown 45% year on year. As PR is increasingly about creating and owning content, video creation should be an area all PRs are looking to exploit. While video is already a huge part of digital culture, [...]

Shall we publish it? Post it? Print it? Tweet it? Or Pin it? Does it require links, likes, retweets, or +1s? Gordon Kelly reveals the technologies that PRs should know how to use and, more importantly, when its best to use them.  The boundaries are blurring. Never before have journalists, PRs and consumers had so [...]

Rosalind Jana is the 17-year-old author of Clothes, Cameras and Coffee and former winner of the Vogue Talent Contest 2011 (writing). Currently enjoying the Easter holidays, Rosalind spoke to Cision about her future, British Brands and working with PRs. Clothes, Cameras and Coffee is a diverse blog that doesn’t easily fit into any one category. [...]

Rhodri Marsden writes a weekly lifestyle column and monthly technology column for The Independent, a weekly column about Twitter for Shortlist.com and technology features for other publications. Rhodri spoke to Cision about David Bowie’s vegetable juicer, a crackpot inventor and working in a bubble. How did your career develop?Originally I worked in the music business, [...]

Cision’s latest breakfast club, with The Daily Telegraph’s consumer tech editor Matt Warman and British Beauty Blogger Jane Cunningham, is now available online. The morning’s discussion has been broken down into bite-sized pieces for your listening pleasure. Each covering a different aspect of the conversation, the sections are: the introduction, day to day scheduling, communication [...]

Cision’s most recent webinar looked at ways for PRs to build relationships with the media. Hosted by editorial coordinator Jake O’Neill, the webinar covered social media, pitch tips and journalists’ PR pet peeves. Data from Cision’s Social Journalism Study was highlighted to give insight into how journalists are using social media tools, such as Twitter [...]

This morning’s live webinar will be available to download later this week. In the meantime, there were a few questions that we didn’t manage to squeeze in, the answers to which are below. Why do you think it’s important to not read/ignore user comments on news websites? The commentariat sections on news websites, including Comment [...]

As bloggers have become an increasingly popular target for PRs, it can sometimes be difficult to distinguish adverts from content. In the UK, critics accuse bloggers of failing to disclose the true nature of sponsored posts. Is it possible to maintain the character of a reliable blog and turn it into a successful business?  A [...]