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More BME PR practitioners – and one BME Prime Minister

by Guest July 26, 2010
More BME PR practitioners – and one BME Prime Minister

by Gabriel St Aimee, Intern at Northern Lights PR
Without intending to evangelise, PR is needed for the BME community, not just for diversity but for the industry – despite the current debate.
PR could be used to alleviate the overly saturated careers, which the BME community is drawn to. Law is just one example of an [...]

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Universities think PR exists in a fantasy land!!

by Guest July 23, 2010
Universities think PR exists in a fantasy land!!

by Mohammed Waheed, Intern at Northern Lights PR
Student with high expectations
When you attend university you think you are the “bee’s knees” and you will learn everything you need to know to be very successful in your future profession, however, not everything is what it seems.
University PR
At university I was taught all about marketing communications and [...]

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Skills 4 Work or Skills 4 Life?

by Guest July 22, 2010
Skills 4 Work or Skills 4 Life?

by Liane Clarke, Intern at Northern Lights PR
The final week of the Internship and as we prepare for our final presentations to Northern Rail, Hallmark, Bradford School of Management and Northern Lights, each of us is reflecting upon the internship and our experiences. From the beginning we have encountered a schedule filled with workshops and [...]

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Run a dynamic internship – without the resources of a FTSE 100 corporate

by Victoria Tomlinson July 20, 2010
Run a dynamic internship – without the resources of a FTSE 100 corporate

It is Northern Lights PR’s 20th anniversary this year. To celebrate we wanted to do something new and different that reflected our values – had heart, made a difference and shared our PR skills.
When Heather McGregor of Taylor Bennett told me about their Brunswick Internship we knew this was it.  We wanted to run the [...]

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Six tips on networking from the industry experts!

by Guest July 14, 2010
Six tips on networking from the industry experts!

by Nafisa Shafiq, Intern at Northern Lights PR
Another week of the internship has passed and this week the session that has interested me most was based on networking. I’ve not had any ‘real’ experience of networking, and Victoria Tomlinson’s do’s and don’ts have all been useful.
In general, like many others I believed networking was all [...]

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More transforming social media tips

by Victoria Tomlinson June 29, 2010
More transforming social media tips

My last blog covered the tips I took away from the CIPR Northern conference.
But I couldn’t cover all the gems I want to share with our clients in one blog.  So here are the follow on points on social media that every business certainly needs to be thinking about and most should be taking action.
1. [...]

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Learning from Linkedin

by Victoria Tomlinson April 20, 2010
Learning from Linkedin

A lot of our clients don’t ‘get’ Linkedin.  They are great networkers, have a far larger contact book than they will ever put onto Linkedin and are regularly in touch with their contacts.
What could they get from Linkedin?
One of the answers is interesting research.  Let’s look at two examples

Joining Linkedin groups

For me, Linkedin started to [...]

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