Piaras Kelly PR - Public Relations in Ireland

Tyler says the things you own, end up owning you. It’s only after you’ve lost everything that you’re free to do anything - Fight Club
I was on my way to a meeting today and was in the middle of a call when my mobile phone died on me. Suddenly I was lost. I [...]

My specialty is being right when other people are wrong - George Bernard Shaw
Last week I posted about how RSS should be substituted for a different term in order to make it more accessible for the masses. I pointed out that I was starting to use the term Webfeeds, like a number of other [...]

There’s no business like show business, but there’s several businesses like accounting - David Letterman
One sure fire way to make it into the Irish Press is to make a jobs, investment figures or survey results announcement. Surveys get people into the press across the globe, but announcements about jobs and investment take on special [...]

The future is made of the same stuff as the present - Simone Weil
Amazon.com are offering syndicated content for their various products (thanks to Steve Rubel for the heads-up) so now online shoppers can subsribe feeds for the store’s various categories like books, music, etc. Better yet, each category is broken down further - [...]

When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web…. Now even my cat has its own page - Bill Clinton
Jason Clarke Photography have launched an Extranet for their photography services which will see them move two steps ahead of their competitors in Ireland.
PR agencies and their [...]

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow - Norman Vincent Peale
It looks like RTE have finally decided to follow the lead of the BBC, Sky News et al and venture down the route of podcasting judging by recent post from Hilary NY (the majority of the post is in Irish [...]

Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence - George F. Will
The Irish Times report (subscription required) on research published by the University of Ulster today which cliams that Gaelic games could be used to promote tourism in Ireland.
I was shocked to hear that Gaelic games have never been promoted seriously as part of [...]

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to stay, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact - George Eliot
I’m actually amazed sometimes how British people somehow assume that Ireland is part of the UK. Despite the fact that our national currency is the Euro, Brits don’t seem to see much difference between [...]

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime - Chinese Proverb
A growing number of companies are starting to recognise the value of Public Relations. Despite the fact that a lot of SMEs would like to do some [...]

Big words seldom accompany good deeds - Charlotte Whitton
You’ve got to love surveys, especially asurveys about blogging - God knows how many people can complete, but I’m sure they tell us something rather insightful. Technorati and Edelman have teamed up to conduct the latest survey. The survey’s aim to help shape the future [...]

Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door - Marlo Thomas
Oh the joys of anonymity! There once was a time (that would be pre my post on ‘Tips for writing content for your blog’) when [...]

If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. - Unknown
The fall in applicants for IT college courses is becoming a growing cause for concern in Ireland. There’s been lots of talk about it over the last couple of years and now the industry wants [...]

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough - Albert Einstein
Unfortunately I missed the IIA congress on Monday, but I’ll be trekking around Ireland and Europe over the coming months attending a couple of conferences, events and geek dinners. If you’ll be at any of the following events I’ll see you there:
Empathy [...]

If builders built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization - Gerald Weinberg
People are more likely to complain than give praise, it’s a simple fact of life. Just open a newspaper to see for yourself and the Internet is no different.
My posting has been a [...]

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it Harry S. Truman
A new freesheet, Metro, is set to be launched in Ireland shortly which will shake up the marketplace. The people behind it say that its main [...]

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster - Isaac Asimov
Sickened isn’t the word…but I bet it’s what Stephen Davies is.
His blog is dead and buried after the server crashed and the backup files were corrupted.
I can’t imagine the frustration that [...]

If you’re not confused, you’re not paying attention - Tom Peters
RTE report on the findings of a new survey that shows that many people do not understand financial terms. For example, a third of those surveyed didn’t understand what APR stood for. It’s hardly surprising, but it also raises an interesting point - [...]

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right - Isaac Asimov
The Irish charity Goal found itself in a spot of bother recently after some ill-recieved comments from the agency’s Irish director, John O’Shea. It was well reported that two directors of the American board of the charity resigned [...]

Online Banking in need of a PR overhaul

The Internet is the death of everything secret - Lance Storm
Privacy concerns are going to be one major issue Google and other search engines are going to face over the next few years. With potential employers (and even potential spouses) googling new employees, what is up about you on the web is becoming very [...]

Don’t agonise. Organise - Florynce Kennedy
The first draft of the TechCamp schedule is online (please note I said draft!) If the time doesn’t suit you for travel requirements, if it clashes with a session you want to sit in on or if you need more/less time, please make the necessary changes on the [...]

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly - Buckminster Fuller
Last week’s Pret-a-PSP event, as reported by Joystiq, just goes to show when it comes to brand association Sony beats Nintendo every time. The big N had a clever DS ad and sponsored some cult TV shows, [...]

Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door - Marlo Thomas
Meet Banksy and Thundercut - the mash-up artists of the art world. These guys remix the world around them, throwing up interesting street sign modifications [...]

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it - Albert Schweitzer
The Irish Times reported yesterday (registration required) about the regulation of charities in Ireland. Tom O’Higgins, a corporate governance consultant, [...]

If work were such a wonderful thing, then surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves - Lane Kirkland
All the talk in Ireland of late has been about Eddie Hobbs’ Rip-off Republic television programme, but another interesting story that slipped by last week was the fall in union membership over the last ten [...]