Piaras Kelly PR - Public Relations in Ireland

I just read about Emotibles on the Cool Hunter. They have a line of accessories to spruce up iPod earphones. It’s a fairly simple concept - flexible rubber charms grip onto your iPod earphones. In the age of personlisation, it’s a clever way to differentiate yourself from the millions of “regular” iPod owners […]

From Reengineering The Corporation:
For an idea to gain acceptance, everyone along the way must say yes, but killing an idea only requires one no.

I came across two really interesting videos thanks to Adoption Curve Dot Net by Johnny Chung Lee from Carnegie Mellon University. Chung Lee hacks a Wii to track fingers Minority Report style and how to create a Low-Cost Multi-touch Whiteboard using the Wiimote.

Both the Wii and the iPhone are examples of user […]

Guy Kawasaki’s “Art of the Start” presentation. It’s aimed at entrepreneurs, but relevant to everyone.

People should be forced to watch this in my opinion.

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I was eating dinner in a pub before going off to see a musical last night. I was finished my meal and was surprised when the waitress brought over a bowl of cocktail sausages when I finished my meal. I was about to say that I didn’t order them when I saw that […]

A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependant on us – we are dependent on him
Meteor is a mobile phone company in Ireland. One of their biggest selling points is that their customers get to send free text (SMS) messages until 2008. Text messaging is huge in […]

A picture is worth a thousand words
I don’t know about the rest of the world but the AA in Ireland run traffic updates on some of the major radio stations. I happened to come across this story about aspiring mobile phone weather presenters gathering for auditions for a video based mobile phone service.
Only in […]

One thing I’ve noticed since I’ve started working in PR is the difficulty in contacting some media personalities’ agents simply because there’s no quick way of finding out who represents them. You have to go through all the go betweens who all include their own handling charge in the personality’s fee. Believe it […]

Every now and again an idea pops into my head. While I may never do anything with it, I may as well blurt it out here in the hope that someone else makes use of it.
Myself and Ed were out for a meal the other day; I fancied an Indian and there happened to […]