Piaras Kelly PR - Public Relations in Ireland

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality - Beatrix Potter
Here are some tips on writing content for your blog:
1. Use catchy titles: As I subscribe to more and more webfeeds, I tend to flicks through content a lot faster. Short, catchy, [...]

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that’s no reason not to give it - Agatha Christie
Just in case you missed it, Trevor Cook has made his ‘Monitoring the Blogosphere’ PowerPoint presentation available for download. I’m not normally one to post about specific content being made available, but he has a fantastic [...]

These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future - Vernon Cooper
Electric News report about Tourism Ireland claiming to offer the world’s first ‘travelmentary’ - Taxi - which will follow two competition winners as they trek across the country in a bid to win cash and [...]

They say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself - Andy Warhol
While most people are obsessing over Apple’s latest beauty, the iPod Nano (thank God for backups because they almost fell flat on their face with the Rokr…Razr + glued on Nano = much better!), there are a few folks who [...]

If my doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster - Isaac Asimov
Just noticed that FM104 are offering a weekly podcast of the Strawberry Alarm Clock compiled of the best bits (Which bits would those be exactly? The moments of silence?) Either way, [...]

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five - Groucho Marx
In-game advertising has been the cause of much debate in the gaming community. They see advertisers as an evil force invading their personal space. Gamers don’t want to see McDonalds billboards as they unwind and submerge [...]

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order - Alfred North Whitehead
In a recent post Joseph Jaffe raises the point that traditional media’s coverage of things happening on the Internet only talks about them, rather than truly incorporating them into their content.
If you find a great site, [...]

The world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it - Helen Keller
One of the main topics coming through numerous channels over the course of the recent sad events in London and New Orleans is criticism of opportunists who seek to profit off tragedy. I agree that it is shocking to [...]

In politics, an organised minority is a political majority - Jesse Jackson
ElectricNews report that Germany has adopted Scotland’s e-petition system. E-petitoner allows members of the public to start an online petition and then discuss it online.
I hadn’t heard about it before, but what a great system. The principal benefit on the system is [...]

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision - Helen Keller
I’m after reading a an article in the Sunday Business Post’s Computers in Business supplement. I’m actually quite shocked after reading it. The article, entitled ‘Websites to catch the eye’, discusses website marketing and a [...]

These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future- Vernon Cooper
Ed Byrne argues that citizen journalism cannot be matched by traditional media when it comes to speed of reporting. Stories can be reported in real time effectively.
I can’t say that I haven’t noticed stories that will [...]