http://simpsonftpr.blogs365.org/hp_wordpress Blogging about Technology & Financial PR Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:11:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As Facebook nears its one millionth Irish user (Irish Times today*) a timely warning from CareerBuilder that Social Media could severely damage your career prospects. CIO Insight ** reports research from CareerBuilder*** which finds that inappropriate information posted on Social Media sites is increasingly being taken into account by potential employers.   So ... http://simpsonftpr.blogs365.org/hp_wordpress/?p=43 As a PR blogger I must stick to PR issues. But let me address one that makes me madder than Vincent Browne interviewing a pro or anti proponent of the Lisbon Treaty.   The (admittedly tenuous) PR link is to the image of soccer. When will FIFA insist that referees automatically book ... http://simpsonftpr.blogs365.org/hp_wordpress/?p=42 Back from 34 degrees Algarve sunshine to find an encouraging number of new business opportunities – all in the technology sector. This upbeat atmosphere confirmed by press release which I write on first day back for the Irish Venture Capital Association on funding figures to be announced shortly. These find ... http://simpsonftpr.blogs365.org/hp_wordpress/?p=41 The May issue of BusinessPlus asks a number of PR people which public relations they most admire (excluding their own clients). I am quoted as being a huge fan of Ryanair as they break a lot of the rules of PR but get away with it by religiously sticking on ... http://simpsonftpr.blogs365.org/hp_wordpress/?p=40 Yours truly (along with a hundred other PR folk) is quoted in the May issue of BusinessPlus which has a timely and wide ranging feature on “Using PR to Help Boost Sales”. In it I say that, “PR’s time has truly come due to the shift to the Internet…This not ... http://simpsonftpr.blogs365.org/hp_wordpress/?p=39