PR Company Expands Despite Tough Economic Climate

London, England (PRWEB) February 4, 2009

UK PR Company Punch Communications has expanded its team of consultants to eight and is continuing to recruit due to significant number of account wins and a steady stream of new business enquiries despite the currently tough economic climate.

Christie Hobbs joins the team as its latest recruit, moving from Marbella – where she ran numerous travel, lifestyle campaigns for a Spanish PR Company – back to her roots in the East Midlands. Christie joins the team as a Senior Account Executive and will be working alongside the team on a broad range of accounts, from automotive, to consumer, to technology clients.

With the business having grown around 500% in 18 months, the agency is also currently eyeing other expansion options, in terms of additional offices in other UK cities. The agency is intentionally top heavy, with six of the current team of eight being either Account Manager or Account Directors, ensuring that the business is able to offer senior consultancy and draw upon extensive experience to deliver campaign success.

As the business expands, it has diversified into a number of relatively new sectors – including Automotive and Education, which are both specialisms that the business offers alongside both high technology, consumer technology and lifestyle/FMCG clients. The business also works with clients in the construction, sports, music and gaming sectors, amongst others.

In particular, the team is a strong advocate of leading edge communications tools, such as Twitter and Digg for example. The team has a wide usage of social networking, from the obvious (Linked In, Plaxo and Facebook) to those that are less mainstream, such as Xing, Naymz, Plaxo, Ecademy, Econsultancy, Delicious, Qype and TripIt.

Pete Goold, Managing Director of Punch Communications, commented:

“We take blogging and social media very seriously as a company, not for its own sake but as we strongly believe that the communications world is changing rapidly and it’s hugely important to me that we are at the fore of that change. Working with a number of leading web 2.0 clients certainly helps but the point is that many of the tools we use are becoming increasingly mainstream and, I believe, in a few years time, practices such as micro-blogging will be prevalent across a great many more corporate sites.”

The team has a range of blog sites, both on the Punch corporate site and personally, across multiple blogging platforms, including WordPress, Blogger and Typepad.

Pete Goold added:

“Another key differentiator for us is the number of non-PR Companies that are looking to partner with us, either because they don’t have a PR function or because they are looking to join up their PR and web functions, with our online PR service. This works particularly well when we also have a requirement – such as the development of a website or a graphic design requirement for example – that the partner can in turn fulfil. Having developed some highly beneficial two way partnerships with businesses in the past, we are currently exploring numerous relationships”.

With five new clients won in the last six weeks, Punch is building on the success of current campaigns, having achieved coverage for clients across the national media in the last few weeks, from The Sunday Mirror, The Express, The Independent, The Telegraph, The Financial Times and The Guardian to coverage in Empire, BBC Homes, Saga magazine, along with numerous leading blogs and websites.

For more information regarding how a PR campaign can help your company, please visit punchcomms.com or call 01858 411600.

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Despite Prosperity, India has Many Problems with Environment, Water and Poverty

Grants Pass, OR (PRWEB) April 06, 2012

“Despite the world’s third largest economy, India still has huge problems with poverty, graft, water distribution and the environment. There is much to be done, especially with India’s children.”

That’s how environmental journalist Robert Weir summed up his recent seven months in India, spent mostly in Calcutta (Kolkata), working with Rosalie Giffoniello’s “Empower the Children” program.

Weir discussed his experiences in India on the Sharon Kleyne Hour Power of Water syndicated radio talk show, on March 19, 2012.

Sharon Kleyne noted that she has a long-standing interest in India’s massive water problems and in the plight of the country’s millions of impoverished children. Her granddaughter spent time in India working in an orphanage, also in Calcutta.

In a discussion of India’s water problems, Mr. Weir noted that while India is relatively water rich, they have four times the population of the United States in less than half the area (1.2 million square miles). India’s water transportation and sanitation infrastructure is not well developed and running water can be unreliable.

Sharon Kleyne contrasted India with the United States, in which 635 gallons of water are used to produce one hamburger (including raising the cow). She noted that only 3% of the world’s water is fresh, only 1% of that is recoverable and most of the 1% is unsafe to drink. With projected world population growth and economic development, Mrs. Kleyne explained, the world’s water needs are projected to increase by 40% in the next 40 years.

Robert Weir arrived in India on August 2, 2012. In Calcutta, he contacted Rosalie Giffoniello, whose Empower the Children program educates thousands of slum dwelling youngsters. Weir noted that although every child in India is legally entitled to an education, government schools require shoes, uniforms and book purchases. As a result, many slum dwelling children do not go to school.

Empower the Children runs several small, informal schools in which shoes, uniforms and books are not required. Schools are often one room, with 70 to 90 students, ages five to 19, sitting on the floor. There is no running water and no toilets. The schools provide books, clothing, six nutritious meals per week, tutorial assistance, vocational training and even university sponsorship.

Robert Weir described the children as “Well behaved and eager to learn.” Most of the children’s homes are extremely small, with no water, sanitation or kitchen. There are community toilets and pumps but hand washing and baths are difficult.

During his visit, Robert Weir stayed in a poor area that was not a slum. The population density of 40,00 people per square mile was uncomfortable but he was uplifted by the religious diversity, and the sense of community in which all parents look out for everyone’s children.

Robert Weir’s website: http://www.RobertMWeir.com

Empower the Children website: http://www.empower-children.org

Sharon Kleyne Hour Power of Water is sponsored by Bio-Logic Aqua Research, whose Nature’s Tears

Despite Prosperity, India has Many Problems with Environment, Water and Poverty

WordPress Remains the Preferred Blog CMS despite Recent Malware Attacks, Maintains Blogging-oriented Sites

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) April 02, 2012

The latest episode of attack from Internet villains involved the spreading of malware to vulnerable WordPress sites with the intention of spreading an information-stealing botnet agent. Despite this issue, many bloggers and web designers still agree that WordPress is the blog content management system (CMS) of choice. Startingablog.com continues to endorse it albeit the recent negative association with the popular yet lately beleaguered CMS.

You should use WordPress to make your website or blog, Startingablog.com advises. It accounts for over 25% of new websites on the internet and the majority of self-hosted blogs. WordPress is an open source CMS, which has endeared itself to many a blogger and web developer for its ease of use. As of the middle of 2011, about 15 million websites all over the Internet were powered by WordPress. It started out as a blogging platform, but nowadays, its so flexible and adaptable that it can be used for any kind of site.

The security issue that has just plagued some WordPress sites can be attributed to the site owners themselves. Once upon a time, any security breach could be blamed on the platform itself, but in cases of hacked sites nowadays, the fault is with the administrator or the owner. These days, systems and platforms are so user-friendly that anybody can learn to start and maintain a blog or website. For this reason, it is of the utmost importance that beginners learn from trustworthy sites and correct tutorials. With sources that do not bother to include the minute details, site owners and bloggers manage to create vulnerabilities without intending to. Many professional web designers agree that WordPress remains to be better than the rest of the content management systems even after this recent attack.

Those who want to learn how to make a blog will find many sources commending WordPress for being simple to use. Tom Jones of Startingablog.com states, WordPress is great because it allows you to make a blog without having to write any code or do any technical geeky work. Basically it is a click and install system. That is something that many non-techies will find relieving. Plus WordPress is free, Jones adds to the statement, citing another important quality of WordPress that many blogging beginners will find comforting. The Startingablog.com team does what it can to educate its users on WordPress, frequently updating its blog to issue more tips or report on news regarding changes or upgrades.

The general consensus gleaned from blogging in-the-knows is that WordPress is still presently the preferred CMS. To make sure that site security is not compromised, those learning how to create a blog should get their guidelines from trusted sources.

WordPress Remains the Preferred Blog CMS despite Recent Malware Attacks, Maintains Blogging-oriented Sites