PR In A Jar

The Pride of East Hull - Hull KR

Hull KR (a client) hosted the launch of the 'Pride of East Hull' , a revolutionary strategy to increase sports participation, tackle obesity and strengthen community cohesion.  The architect of this initiative is John Prescott MP, also a director of Hull KR, who has worked tirelessly with the club's Education and Sport Trust to bring together education, health and local sporting partners to improve the life-chances of the public of east Hull. 

The 'Checking You've Received It' Ring-Around: or, How to Lose Journalists and Infuriate People

The weekly 'Editor's Desk' slot in PR Week, where editors do a Q&A on how PRs can best deal with them, very often features a pet PR hate which seems to really rile editors, and understandably so.

Would you have PRs in your pub quiz team?

Another slagging off of PR people in the new issue of the excellent Standpoint magazine, this time from an unnamed 'mole inside the publishing industry'.

Upcoming Media Training Dates

Some media training dates coming up:

Tuesday 27 May, Blackburn: PR workshops as part of the BIG programme from Enterprise4All, followed by one-to-one PR clinics on 17 June

Wednesday 28 May, one-on-one PR clinics for designer-makers who participated in last year's Design Initiative PR seminar in St Helens

Wednesday 11 June, online PR seminar for Lancashire & Blackpool Tourist Board, Preston

Also upcoming: PR seminar for designer-makers in Cumbria, date tbc!

Guest Blog from Smith & Smith account manager Claire O'Connor

Hi, I’m Claire (3 beat pause) ... Claire O’Connor.

This week I spent most of my Wednesday in a room full of people in identical black suits, who were mainly lawyers and accountants, learning about how to network effectively. The seminar was meant to teach us how to ‘work the room’, how to approach groups of people who you would like to speak to, how to get rid of people you wouldn’t like to speak to, and how to know when people don’t want to speak to you. Playground politics if ever I heard it ...

PR training helps Manchester burlesque painter gain exposure

A PR seminar and a one-to-one PR clinic I did recently for Manchester-based NPO Design Initiative has brought young artist Gemma Parker some much-needed regional exposure.

PR Workshop for Design Businesses, St Helens, 3rd September

On Monday 3rd September I'll be leading a workshop at St Helens Chamber of Commerce around creative businesses and how they can maximize PR opportunities around exhibitions and trade shows.

Our Very Own LEAD Graduate

Our business director Nathan Smith has graduated from Lancaster University's prestigious LEAD programme, a mini-MBA for owner-managers of fast-growing SMEs.

For the past two years I've been handling PR for the course, and it was seeing the changes in previous LEAD graduates that made me think one of us should do the course this year.

Speaking up for Public Speaking

Worrying news from a recent survey by the Hampshire-based Aziz Corporation, which says 80% of British business executives would be scared of being interviewed on television.

Worse still, 58% said they would worry about "boring the audience" if public speaking and 32% were afraid of not being able to answer questions from the audience.

Blogging Workshop Too! - 20 June, Old Trafford

And while we're on the subject of training, there will also be a blogging workshop held by Creative Industries Trafford next Wednesday, 20 June, where I will be speaking alongside Craig McGinty.