Scotland
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Miss Scotland sends a Valentine – to a dead man?
PR is a rather surreal game at times. There I was in the DADA offices yesterday, when current Miss Scotland Stephanie Willemse shouts out to me “Craig, how does this look” and opens her coat to reveal an interesting (and incredibly sexy) outfit Steph was doing a job for the National Trust for Scotland to
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It’s Twestival Time!
It’s time for Twitterers to show what a social and good natured bunch they are tonight with the Twestivals taking place across the globe, with the noble aim of raising funds for Charity:Water, helping to provide drinking water to those who need it most. Anyway, I’m absolutely delighted that companies I work with have been
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Quick update
Things have been hellish quiet here since the Robert Burns Twitter fundraiser. Basically BlueHost borked the site and if it hadn’t been for the wonderful talents of Gavin Montague I’d still be down. Anyway, in the middle of all the chaos, I found another theme that I like better than this but it’s going to
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Twitter gets its own newspaper – the All Tweet Journal RT
So the mass-media newspaper indutry is dying is it? Tell that to James McIvor of Scooped. Not content with setting up a successful mock front page business – Scooped/Making the News (an idea that 99% of subs said ‘I wish I’d thought of that’ when they heard about it) and being a sports author, he’s
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Robert Burns Twitter fundraising nearly done
I could go off Twitter after last weekend. More later, but thanks to all who took part – either linking in to www.twitter.com/ayrshirebard or donating via the link below or just retweeting the message. Gratefully appreciated. NOTE: the link will stay active most of Tuesday if anyone wants to make a late donation (I’ll be
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Help preserve Scottish poet Robert Burns’ legacy – Give just $2
It’s the cheapest birthday present ever! As I’ve mentioned online and below, we’re fundraising via Twitter for the new National Trust for Scotland Robert Burns Birthplace Museum. I’ll also be posting lines of Burns regularly via his Twitter account at www.twitter.com/ayrshirebard. For anyone writing about Burns until Tuesday, feel free to use the hashtags #burns.