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| Member blogs | |
| The Wrong Copy | Blog from Jo Chipchase, one of the UKPress founders and moderators. |
| Coasolutions Blog | General musings of COA Solutions staff and COA Solutions owner Jon Moulton, relating to IT, finance, HR and business intelligence. |
| The Philosophy Shop | A blog that applies philosophical reflections to everyday life, and particularly education news. |
| Vitis PR's blog | Whatever vitis considers interesting in PR, technology and life. |
| News feeds | |
| NewsNow | UK news source updated every 5 minutes |
| Wired | Respected source of technology news |
| PA News Centre | News snipppets from the PA |
| The Register | IT news with attitude |
| CNET News | IT news from CNET |
| Red Herring | More tech sector news |
| BBC News | The BBC's searchable news resource |
| Press releases & contacts | |
| BusinessWire | From press release distribution and regulatory filings to search engine optimisation, multimedia and monitoring services, a full suite of public relations and investor relations services right at your fingertips. |
| Business Wire PressPass | Free, 24/7 direct access to news, photos, multimedia and corporate information from thousands of companies, tailored to your exact coverage needs, via RSS, email or the web. |
| PRN NEWSDesk | Breaking news from companies plus archived news, photographs and other corporate press information |
| PR Newswire's Multimedia Releases | Multimedia news releases (MNRs) from PR Newswire make it easy to deliver news in a multimedia format, merging video/audio, text, logos, photos and related documents into a dynamic HTML platform. See www.prnewswire.com/mnr/prnewswire/35169 |
| ProfNet | Global expert sourcing service from PRN |
| SourceWire | Press releases, PR contacts and many other useful things for tech journalists |
| ResponseSource | Popular service that enables journalists to request information from PRs in many sectors |
| Press Dispensary | Professionally written press releases and distribution services ordered online at a reasonable price. Aimed at SMEs who wish to make announcements but do not wish to pay agency fees. |
| Discussion lists & forums | |
| uk-netmarketing | Lively and invaluable discussion list populated by leading figures from the new media industry |
| Fleet Street Forum | A bulletin board for journalists |
| Reference & research tools | |
| Dictionary.com | Also includes Thesaurus.com...find just the word you need |
| Refdesk | Excellent starting place for Net fact-hunting |
| Finding Data on the Net | A journalist's guide to Internet searching |
| Online Legal Documents UK | NetLawman offers best quality legal documents, business documents and personal legal drafting service in UK. Find all DIY legal agreements and legal forms online. |
| NUA Internet Surveys | Search through hundreds of research reports |
| Forrester Research | Research outlining the growth of the Net and beyond |
| IMDb Internet Movie Database | Whatever the movie, find out all about it here |
| Hobbes' Internet Timeline | Useful history of the Internet |
| Useful Internet Web Sites for Investigators | Part of UKLegal.com |
| whatis.com | Find the meaning of technical terms |
| Headcount.com | The size of Internet markets worldwide |
| The Web's Too Big:PR | Search engine focusing on the websites of UK PR agencies, providing users with a highly focused search experience |
| New media publications | |
| .net | Consumer orientated publication with accompanying Web site, on-line forums and mailing list |
| New Media Age | More about the new media sector |
| Newmediazero | Yet more... |
| Internet.Works | Internet business title |
| ClickZ | All about online marketing and PR strategy |
| Media industry directories | |
| Hollis | The UK's leading information provider for PR, media, advertising, marketing services, sponsorship, corporate hospitality and events, the music industry and associations. |
| Approved PR Companies | Find, compare
and request free quotes from pre-approved PR companies based in
the UK. Read our free guides to choosing a PR agency. |
| Resources for journalists | |
| Gorkana | Media specialists offering a free range of products and services to journalists, including access to the latest journalist jobs, daily email bulletins highlighting journalist news and recent moves, plus a media request service that can help you source news, product and case studies from the PR industry. |
| Audit Bureau of Circulations | Who's selling what |
| Freelancers Net | Find a freelancer / promote yourself |
| Freelance Journalist | A resource aimed specifically at freelance journalists |
| DotJournalism | Online news for online journalists |
| Media UK Internet Directory | Online radio, magazines, TV and newspapers in the UK |
| The Rate for the Job | Useful guide for freelancers from the NUJ |
| Hold the Front Page | News stories and resources aimed at regional journalists |
| The Slot | Useful Stateside resource for copy editors, created by Bill Walsh |
| Guardian Unlimited Style Guide | Useful guidance for writers |
| Resources for PRs | |
| Gorkana | The media portal for PRs. Products and services include an online media database, forward features, media requests, PR jobs and daily email bulletins highlighting the latest PR and media news. |
| PR Week | Popular PR publication online |
| FeaturesExec | Suite of media information services for PRs in the tech and finance sectors |
| Metrica | A specialist media evaluation agency that can help clients establish the best methods of measuring the effectiveness of their PR function. Clients range from global corporations to small, not-for-profit organisations. |
| Press Dispensary | Provider of press release writing and distribution services and affordable 'white label' media centres with a whole host of useful functionality. |
| PR Newswire's Social Media Metric | Companies can monitor what’s being said about them online with PR Newswire’s Social Media Monitoring tool. This invaluable resource covers 30,000 online news sites, 20 million blogs, 5 million daily forum posts, as well as microblogs, (Twitter), photo and video sites (YouTube and Flicker) and publically available spaces of social networking sites (Facebook and MySpace). |
| Industry training courses | |
| Press Dispensary's PR Masterclass | A basic grounding in how to write good PR copy and avoid language and content journalists dislike, with advice about online distribution methods. |
| PR industry bodies | |
| Institute of Public Relations | "The eyes, ears and voice of the public relations industry" |
| Public Relations Consultants Association | Another central UK public relations body |
| PR Scotland | Online resource for Scotland's PR professionals |
| PR agencies | |
| Midnight Communications | Clients include Adobe Systems, Affinity Internet, Power Quest, Unipalm |
| Nomad Communications | Clients include About.com and The451.com |
| Samphire Public Relations | A consumer PR Agency with clients in the travel, leisure, food and drink industries. Manages global campaigns with members of its team speaking 7 languages. |
| Whiteoaks | Clients include 1eEurope, BT Bis, Calvis, Horror Channel, Hybyte, Keynote, MHP, Siemens Datatrak, Xpedite |
| Zed PR | Client include Interactive Intelligence, Kingston Communications, Nouveau Solutions, QND-Media, Jupigio (dream artist), the Action 100 bike ride, and The Life Spa |
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