Comments on: Pondering about the future of Public Relations in Ireland http://www.pkellypr.com/blog/2006/0606/pondering-about-the-future-of-public-relations-in-ireland/ Irish Communications Consultant - Be Noticed Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:30:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Piaras http://www.pkellypr.com/blog/2006/0606/pondering-about-the-future-of-public-relations-in-ireland/#comment-60236 Piaras Sun, 26 Nov 2006 10:48:09 +0000 http://www.pkellypr.com/blog/2006/0606/pondering-about-the-future-of-public-relations-in-ireland/#comment-60236 Email sent Email sent

]]> By: Michelle Sullivan http://www.pkellypr.com/blog/2006/0606/pondering-about-the-future-of-public-relations-in-ireland/#comment-59424 Michelle Sullivan Fri, 24 Nov 2006 02:13:39 +0000 http://www.pkellypr.com/blog/2006/0606/pondering-about-the-future-of-public-relations-in-ireland/#comment-59424 Hello Piaras Kelly ! (have worked out the phonetics and am enjoying the way your name rolls off my tongue) I've been peeking into your blog now and then from my home-office in Montreal; I've worked as a PR consultant here for 5 years, 1 and a half or so as a solo practitioner. Because I've only discovered you recently, I'd missed this June entry and am pleased that my musings about moving my business overseas led me to stumble upon it. (Thanks Google) I'm the daughter of an Irish emigrant and so am blessed with citizenship and access to the European passport. Montreal is starting to feel small, and I've often thought about setting up shop in Ireland but am trying to be realistic about the obvious handicaps I'd have, trying to liaise with media I know little about. Any thoughts you might have on the edge a fluently bilingual (French/English) professional from Quebec might have trying to break into the PR game in Ireland would be appreciated. With family in Baldoyle, I'm thinking Dublin would be the most likely destination. Given the need to communicate with new arrivals, coupled with the market opportunities within the EU my question is: What does a girl like me have to do to catch a break, over on your side of the pond? Hello Piaras Kelly ! (have worked out the phonetics and am enjoying the way your name rolls off my tongue)

I’ve been peeking into your blog now and then from my home-office in Montreal; I’ve worked as a PR consultant here for 5 years, 1 and a half or so as a solo practitioner.

Because I’ve only discovered you recently, I’d missed this June entry and am pleased that my musings about moving my business overseas led me to stumble upon it. (Thanks Google)

I’m the daughter of an Irish emigrant and so am blessed with citizenship and access to the European passport. Montreal is starting to feel small, and I’ve often thought about setting up shop in Ireland but am trying to be realistic about the obvious handicaps I’d have, trying to liaise with media I know little about.

Any thoughts you might have on the edge a fluently bilingual (French/English) professional from Quebec might have trying to break into the PR game in Ireland would be appreciated. With family in Baldoyle, I’m thinking Dublin would be the most likely destination.

Given the need to communicate with new arrivals, coupled with the market opportunities within the EU my question is:

What does a girl like me have to do to catch a break, over on your side of the pond?

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]]> By: David Cochrane http://www.pkellypr.com/blog/2006/0606/pondering-about-the-future-of-public-relations-in-ireland/#comment-16575 David Cochrane Fri, 09 Jun 2006 13:34:23 +0000 http://www.pkellypr.com/blog/2006/0606/pondering-about-the-future-of-public-relations-in-ireland/#comment-16575 The risk, is that 'blog' and 'bebo' become the only two words that people grab onto when it comes to the Internet. The Internet is huge, I mean really really big, think of something big, and then think much much bigger. If we start limiting a medium to a few buzzwords and sites, we run the risk of limiting this medium in the same way that tradtional media is limited in scope and coverage. That said, it's mainly the old (traditional) media that's actually defining this new medium, so vested interests a plenty. How we communicate isn't so much the issue, WHAT we want to communicate is the first starting point, as the PR students will know, identify the audience, and then find the best means (channels) to communicate with them. This is what makes the internet great, big style advertising used to be about an ad during the Late Late show, now it's about geotargetting (targetting users by location), targetting by demographic (age) or other habits, some companies are going much further than this. Anyways, let's get the what sorted out, before we do the how. Don't get me wrong, I dig the whole internet thing, and have made myself a career from it, but it really is just another medium, that yes, should be include in the mix, but it's not THE mix. The risk, is that ‘blog’ and ‘bebo’ become the only two words that people grab onto when it comes to the Internet.

The Internet is huge, I mean really really big, think of something big, and then think much much bigger.

If we start limiting a medium to a few buzzwords and sites, we run the risk of limiting this medium in the same way that tradtional media is limited in scope and coverage. That said, it’s mainly the old (traditional) media that’s actually defining this new medium, so vested interests a plenty.

How we communicate isn’t so much the issue, WHAT we want to communicate is the first starting point, as the PR students will know, identify the audience, and then find the best means (channels) to communicate with them.

This is what makes the internet great, big style advertising used to be about an ad during the Late Late show, now it’s about geotargetting (targetting users by location), targetting by demographic (age) or other habits, some companies are going much further than this.

Anyways, let’s get the what sorted out, before we do the how.

Don’t get me wrong, I dig the whole internet thing, and have made myself a career from it, but it really is just another medium, that yes, should be include in the mix, but it’s not THE mix.

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