Kicking off 2012 with a big positive, Everything PR News had the opportunity to talk with one of the online world’s most influential leaders. Rick Rudman heads up the web’s most successful online marketing and PR software company Vocus. We took the opportunity to once again consult another visionary talent about the “now” and the future of the social web.
An article by Rebecca Smith, Medical Editor of The Telegraph shines light on food companies circumventing ad rules to target kids unhealthy products. According to Smith, companies such as Kellogg’s, Rowntree and even Cadbury have set up websites with games and videos targeting kids. And if engaging via the digital playground were not enough, social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook, even email, have been employed to get around government ad regulations.
Appscend is one of the few service providers that allow companies to create smartphone apps on a budget.
Let’s talk it to pieces. When Steve Jobs was alive, every tech blog on Earth covered his sweater changes. If not for stories of Facebook, Twitter, and 5,000 mobile apps the youngest demographic is starved for, TechCrunch and Mashable would be reduced to digital rags. There’s one thing for sure in tech land, the media is not fashioning the trend – or is it?
This holiday season, wouldn’t it be nice if every business that ever gave you the shaft got hammered with a lawsuit? Well, this was my
Damage control at its best. That’s all anyone can say about how Expedia has handled the TripAdvisor fake reviews issue. At least this is how most PR professionals would gauge the world’s biggest online travel entity’s efforts to stem the flow of negative press, and offset all other negatives in a potentially disastrous affair. According to the news, Expedia shareholders will vote their “conscience” on December 6th, on the TripAdvisor spin-off.
Over the last few weeks we have had talks with some of the world’s leading industry personalities. In light of the fact that many of our most influential decision makers are brilliant in any number of respects, actually resembling one another very closely even. It is interesting to note too, how some of these extraordinary people look like other characters physically.
2011 Top 100 Best Startups for PRs continues with the last five categories: Publishing and Document Creation; Media Monitoring and Analytics; File Sharing, Storage; Human Resources, Crowdsourcing; and Funding, VC, Money.
Brick and mortar meets the matrix of digital shopping today at Union Square in Aberdeen, UK. House of Fraser, a leading online retailer, has announced the opening of a so called “buy and collect concept store” this morning, a re-visitation by H of F into the Aberdeen market after a nine year abscence from the traditional store experience.
Last week, Everything PR News talked with Ian Herbison, CEO and Co-Founder of Speyside Corporate Relations, a leading agency focused now on the emerging markets of Latin America. For readers, this talk is a unique opportunity to gain valuable insight into not only one of the world’s leading corporate engagers, but an emerging Latin America.
