by Alan S. Morrison | Aug 22, 2025 | brand awarness, communications, marketing, PR, public relations, Social media
Here’s the uncomfortable truth about Social Media – the platforms love to sell you Reach as Views or Impressions because that’s something they can increase and decrease with their algorithms and make you pay cold hard cash for more of. This is why professional...
by Alan S. Morrison | Aug 1, 2025 | Accessible Communication, communications, Inclusivity, marketing, public relations, Social media
Six months ago I started posting vertical videos on LinkedIn because multiple sources, including Richard van der Blom and Social Media Today, said the algorithm had been changed to give most free organic reach to posts with vertical video. Also, I noticed some of my...
by Alan S. Morrison | Jul 22, 2025 | communications, marketing, public relations, Social media
One of the major things we use social media for is to generate traffic to our websites by sharing links in our posts. The problem is the social networks want you and your followers to stay on them and not be taken elsewhere by an outbound link. That’s why several...
by Alan S. Morrison | Jul 16, 2025 | communications, marketing, PR, public relations, reputation, Reputation management
In previous posts I’ve explained how best practice Public Relations is about helping your organisation achieve its goals via contributing to Business and Communication Outcomes and Impacts, media coverage is the Means and not the End of PR and Media Relations towards...
by Alan S. Morrison | Jun 27, 2025 | Business news, communications, marketing, PR, public relations
In a previous post I explained what Barcelona 3.0 Principles are and why people who pay for Public Relations should understand them and ask if the people they’re paying are using them to properly measure and evaluate the effectiveness, and therefore value, of the...
by Alan S. Morrison | Jun 3, 2025 | communications, PR, public relations
For understandable reasons, there’s training around, often free, for owners of small businesses to learn how to use public relations tools to get their business into the media themselves. Most give good basic advice and allow them to pitch their story to media they’d...
