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It’s just two months since we welcomed Michael Purcell to JPR as a Social Media and Content Executive. But it’s hard to believe there was ever a time when he wasn’t here, he’s now so much part of the team!

• CIPRJane Williams

At JPR, the Chartered Institute of PR is in our blood. All of our team are members of the CIPR and all are participating its Continuous Professional Development Scheme. In our team, we have three former CIPR Northern Ireland Chairman and three CIPR Fellows. We had someone from the company on the CIPR Northern Ireland committee for something like 20 years, almost continuously, in the 1990s and 2000s.

• social mediaMichael PurcellContent Marketing

It’s not every day that you get to add an Iron Man to your team.

• social mediaCIPR

The CIPR has launched a new best practice guide to social media, available free to both members and non-members of the Institute.

• PRDigitalPRCA

We’ve just joinned the PRCA to add to our long-time, close involvement with CIPR. In exploring the PRCA’s resources, I came upon its Digital PR Report 2013 which was recently published in partnership with The Holmes Report and YouGov.

• PRDigitalgovernmentEIS

Shortly after I blogged about comments by Alex Aiken, the UK Government’s Executive Director of Communications, regarding the changes he is spearheading in communications within government departments, the Cabinet Office published the outcome of a ‘Digital Communications Capability Review’ that Aiken instigated.

• PRsocial mediaSEO

We provide our clients with a lot of value. And they appreciate it. We help them win new business; recruit great employees; build productive relationships with stakeholders and influencers. And lots more besides.

• PRsocial media

There have been some great and some not so great examples recently by organisations of social media use. Some have been labelled PR triumphs, others PR disasters. Here are just a few examples worth looking at.

• PR

I had the pleasure of attending a great event last night organised by PRmoment. I was in London for another reason (at the CIPR) but it was a bonus to be able to also squeeze in PRmoment’s first two speakers before I rushed to Gatwick for a flight home.

• PRmedia

Journalists are busy people. They very much appreciate PR practitioners who help them do their job. And they get extremely irritated by those who annoy them or hold them back. For PR people who want to stay in a journalist’s good books, here is a list of things you will definitely want to avoid doing, but which we are told by journalists that some PR people so often do: