PRBristol.co.uk designed for people making and breaking the news
June 27, 2008 Posted by Matt in : Bristol , 1 comment so far
Frequently as a PR company we have the need for stakeholder and one-to-one communications, but in a time poor and disparate industry it can be hard to keep in contact with our network. One of the staple skills of a journalist or PR is to build a powerful and far-reaching network to obtain and distribute news or a client’s message. As a result, we came up with the idea of PRBristol.co.uk.
The objective is to provide a stronger voice for the PR and news industry and to use blogs to share best practice and to improve communication between PR practitioners and the news media.
Organisations in the private and public sector are using new technology in increasingly sophisticated ways to communicate with consumers, customers and stakeholders. The lines are also becoming increasingly blurred between those who make the news and those who break the stories, not least because of the introduction of multi-media platforms which have revolutionised the way news is disseminated.
www.prBristol.co.uk will introduce the industry to the fast-moving world of social networking and to other developments up and down the spectrum of news media. This site is intended to be useful, informative and influential.
We have also developed other microsites to assist the network such as a ‘News at a glance’ feature to be used as your home page in your browser or the ‘The Watering Hole’, which adds to the social network dimension of a journalist’s or PR’s social life!
I would be grateful for any observations and input as we want this network of sites to benefit PRs, in-house press officers, freelancers, journalists, editors, broadcast journalists, news agencies and photographers in the Bristol area.
BCS Search for the Best MP Websites 2008
June 26, 2008 Posted by Stephen Hilton in : e-democracy, Bristol, Awards , 1 comment so farThe British Computer Society (BCS) is searching for the best MP website 2008.
We the citizens are invited to suggest MP websites that successfully engage, excite, and usefully inform us. They also have to be easy to navigate, accessible and make effective use of modern media techniques such as blogs, pod or video casts and instant messaging.
All of Bristol’s MPs have a web presence:
You can vote HERE for MP sites that you feel are worthy of an award - and those you feel are not!
Finding your way around the internet
June 20, 2008 Posted by Kevin in : Bristol , 1 comment so farWherever you are, if you don’t have a map, there’s a chance you’ll get lost. This chance increases exponentially in more complex environments. With approximately one hundred million websites scattered around the virtual globe it doesn’t come much more complex than the internet. Information Architects in Japan have organised 300 of the most prominent websites into a structured map based on the Tokyo Underground layout. Only another 999,999,700 websites to squeeze in…..
Who are the hard to reach?
June 12, 2008 Posted by Kevin in : Bristol , 3 commentsLots of assumptions are made about who the “hard to reach” digitally excluded individuals in the UK population might be. Generally these assumptions focus around deprivation, ethnicity and disability. However wealth, education and privilege don’t necessarily guarantee inclusion in the digital age. Ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair is himself a self-confessed technophobe.
Famously, Senator Ted Stephens of the United States Congress, demonstrated a breath-takingly sketchy grasp of how the Internet operates while opposing an amendment to the Net Neutrality Bill. Better reserve a few seats for any similarly minded politicians and bureaucrats at the next “Introduction in IT” course.
