Tory MP Louise Mensch has launched a rival to Twitter in the US, to appeal to an audience of people frustrated at the global social networking site. Called Menshn.com – a play on the word ‘mention’ – it allows users in the states to post messages and debate within subject forums. This moves away from [...]

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Oliver Chesher, director of Admiral PR and Marketing recently wrote a guest blogged for www.hotel-magazine.co.uk discussing the effectiveness of blogging for your business.  Arguably one of the most powerful social media tools is blogging. Derived from the term ‘web-log’, a blog is simply a website, or section of a site, that is kept regularly updated with content its audiences might [...]

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The Times is using social media to great advantage in a bid to win more subscribers and embolden its presence in the media comment sphere. Readers of the Times Opinion pages will no doubt be interested to learn the website has launched an “experimental Tumblr page”. Faced with this news, one might ask himself two [...]

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Admiral is on the highway to success after another account win. Following a competitive pitch process, the consultancy has been appointed by RED Driving School, the second largest driving school in the UK, to raise national awareness of the company and increase the number of learner drivers choosing RED. Admiral has taken control of the [...]

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This month, our non-exec chairman Stephen Waddington goes under the Admiral spotlight to give us some insight into his world as a PR moderniser and recent author of Brand Anarchy, his new book. What do you do to relax? I split my time between London and the North East and spend all my spare time at [...]

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The Northumberland Gazette re-launched as a compact edition and overhauled its web site this week. Admiral PR’s chairman Stephen Waddington who lives in Northumberland and is a long time Gazette subscriber, marked the occasion with an article for the paper about the relationship between newspapers and social media. Here’s an excerpt of the article. The [...]

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