And we’re pretty pleased with that! In the week that we’re generally showing off and unveiling our glam new look we also got our listing up in the AdAge Power list, which according to Matthew Watson’s excellent maths means we’re 39 in the global top 50 PR blogs.
It’s rewarding with the hard work and attention that’s gone in to building the Shiny Red blog. It’s been a really fun and educational process since the first unassuming post in 2006, and it’s something the whole team love doing and learn lots from.
Having seen Vero’s well-read post about PRs and bloggers this week, I’m reminded again how lucky we are as social media PRs to be able to get involved in this way – traditional PR doesn’t offer the same opportunity to be a broadcaster or journalist. The experience of publishing our thoughts online is so valuable both to communicate Shiny Red’s knowledge and personality, and and to learn as practitioners. I remember publishing my first ever blog post (bless) which wasn’t even under my name, but was a good moment of realisation about how it feels to put your own words out there. It certainly makes building and ‘pitching’ stories a lot more strategic when you can reflect, from experience – would I write about this?
Thanks to Matthew and Spinning Around for getting everyone into a bit of ranking mania it’s been good to see how our more localised communities line up and discover some new blogs too.
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