It may be a tired cliché, but the saying “there’s no substitute for experience” is advice that any PR worth his or her salt would give to anyone looking to start a career in the fabled world of public relations. It’s advice that stood me in good stead when I was looking for a job [...]

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With the BBC’s introduction of a position for a social media editor it would appear that digital news distribution and online networking has finally ‘arrived’.
But in fact the BBC has been rather slow off the mark and most broadcasters and traditional press have already appointed designated social media boffins.

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It seems professional marketers have forgotten the basics of their craft and opted to follow the lead of spammers everywhere, with news that Habitat has been ‘mistweeting’ of late.
The trendy furniture chain has been using online search words (known as hashtags) linked to the protests in Iran to lure large numbers of people into its [...]

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