Piaras Kelly PR - Public Relations in Ireland

A lot of people liked my previous post on writing content for your blog. Here’s a couple more things that I’ve thought of in the meantime which I feel could be added to my initial list.
1. Use questions in post titles. There’s nothing better than asking a question to stimulate discussion. […]

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery - Anais Nin
I forgot to mention that I signed up to James Corbett’s OPML directory and became the node manager for Public Relations. Over the weekend I compiled a list of Irish Public Relations Consultancies, representative […]

Stephen Davies tells me that he is unable to post comments on this blog using Firefox. I seem to be able to post them using Explorer or Safari. If anyone else has any problems, email me - smiarasATgmail.com

People are definitely a company’s greatest asset. It doesn’t make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps - Mary Kay Ash
Ten years ago most PR consultancies in Ireland didn’t have an email address, now every staff member has at least one. […]

Assumptions are the termites of relationships - Henry Winkler
PR practitioners are starting to pitch bloggers as well as journalists to write about their clients these days, not always with great success. One of the topics I’ve seen come through in feedback is that how can a Public Relations practitioner pitch a blogger, if they […]

There are three types of lies: lies, damn lies and statistics - Mark Twain
60% of Irish people don’t use email according to the latest JNLR figures. Personally I think that the research must have been carried out poorly. Anyone in a white collar job has an email address so i honestly can’t see […]

Anybody remotely interesting is mad, in some way or another
The ‘In fact ah‘ website has posted a video clip of Eamonn Dunphy’s rant on RTE about the Roy Keane saga. It’s a riveting watch as one of Ireland’s leading broadcast journalists loses the plot over the course of fifteen minutes.
Instant Punditry also points out […]

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper - R. Serling
I don’t subscribe to the theory that advertising is dying. If it was then why would I know about brands like Cillit Bang?
It […]

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we’re here we should dance
It’s Christmas party season and the festivities seem to be in full swing. I was at the Spin FM/98 FM Christmas party last night. With a room full of DJs, God only knows why they needed a band?
Next […]

I know what you’re thinking. “Did he fire six shots or only five?” Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you’ve got to ask […]

Brian Greene is starting a representative body for Irish podcasters. He is setting up the group because:
The need exists to safe guard the activity of podcasters regards licencing, legal and a range of other issues like standards, training, hosting, product placement & sponsorship.
I don’t think there’s going to be much fuss about product placement […]

I forgot to mention that Tom Raftery has posted his podcast interview with Robert Scoble in advance of the IT@Cork annual technology and business conference.
I won’t make the conference, but I’ll be down in Cork for the geek dinner with Scoble. Apart from the usual suspects, Hugh MacLeod and Tom Murphy will also be […]

Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream - John Berger
The Limerick Leader, an Irish regional paper, pulled off a publicity masterstroke yesterday when the publication paid €31,000 for a winners’ medal from the first […]

I’m going to the Irish Internet Awards tonight. Any other Irish bloggers going? I know Michele, John and Ed are.
What I really want to know is whether dinner is a free-for-all or are we actually assigned seats? I haven’t worn the tux in a while so it’ll be a nice excuse […]

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them…Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them - Denis Watley
I’m relatively new to the PR profession and one thing that’s taken me a long […]

A number of Irish media organisations have started podcasting of late, but I always find it funny when I read about it in the newspapers. Surely they should be targeting Irish bloggers or message boards as these are the most likely people to download their podcasts.
I got a bit of a shock today when […]

Nobody does it better
Makes me feel sad for the rest
Nobody does it half as good as you
Baby you’re the best
There’s less than two weeks until Ireland’s inaugural geek dinner with Robert Scoble, which is scheduled to take place after IT@Cork’s seventh annual Technology and Business conference. Apparently there are places still left at the […]

This is my truth, now tell me yours - Nye Bevan
The Irish Times ran an anti-blogging article which is funny because the Times has been the most supportive of the medium thanks to the likes of Karlin Lillington and Danny O’Brien. Heck my blog is even linked to from the Irish Times website. […]

Customers who don’t get support become someone else’s customers - Brigade ad
Thanks to Stephen Davies for pointing out that eBay is now allowing owners of eBay stores to have their own RSS feed. Normally I hate jumping on the bandwagon with these announcements, but this is a really great example of the benefits of […]

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing - Albert Einstein
It’s taken me a while to post about this, but Ed Byrne has an interesting post up called ‘Irish bloggers for hire‘. Before anyone gets riled up, the post […]

TechCamp features in this month’s PC Live, courtesy of an interview with Ireland Offline. Thanks for the mention guys! On the TechCamp front expect some news soon, it’s looking like March 2006.
I would like to say that I’ve been too lazy to organise anything, but work has been pretty busy of […]

A sale is not something you pursue, it is something that happens to you while you are immersed in serving your customer
The BBC’s headline ‘Tesco in e-mail marketing assault’ is one of the best headlines I’ve seen in a while because it sums up what Tesco carried out last month perfectly, whether the company realises […]

Despite what looks like what will be a terrible movie, check out Bryan Singer’s video blog (courtesy of Tcal) from the set of the new Superman movie, Superman Returns.
In what is bound to be the start of a long line of video journals from movie sets, etc, video blogging is sure to take off over […]

Everybody’s talking at me. I don’t hear a word they’re saying. Only the echoes of my mind - Harry Nilsson
Upon first reading of my headline, most people will think that the time for companies to get consumers talking about their products online started a long time ago. However a new survey (as reported […]

Look at me, don’t look at me!
Today marked an interesting shift for the future of celebrity PR and how the media go about reporting on their favourite goldfish bowl. Tom Cruise hired a new ‘PR guru’ and Kate Hudson sued five publications for publishing photos and articles that suggested that she was suffering […]