🎤 What does Halloween, and #standupcomedy have to do with confidence and community? Turns out - quite a lot! Last night’s Open Mic Stand up brought together digital nomads for an evening of laughter, music & shared courage tinyurl.com/2ncdnjnn #standup #womenincomedy

Take a look at today’s Daily Brief for the latest sci-tech news, such as: 💰 Overhaul raises $105m 🥽 Dublin’s MixRift appoints former Meta VP to board 💷 NI gets £30m for sci-tech industrial strategy ...and more! mailchi.mp/siliconrepub...

In case you missed it - 🗞️ Good journalism is hurting - and it’s personal. In the past few months, we’ve seen incredibly talented reporters, editors, and photographers - across major outlets and small publications - facing layoffs, closures, and uncertainty. How can we support? shorturl.at/tEeSE

🗞️ Good journalism is hurting – and it’s personal. In the past few months, we’ve seen incredibly talented reporters, editors, and photographers - across major outlets and small publications - facing layoffs, closures, and uncertainty. These are people who’ve dedicated their careers to telling…

✨ A training session for CEOs, founders & execs blending confident speaking, presentation skills and media insight, with just the right dose of comic relief - especially important in these pretty grim times. If you end up behind a mic-at a panel, pitch, networking event or all‑hands-this is for you!

🌊 Greetings from Elafonisi & ‘secret’ Kedrodasos beach! Back in the ‘office’ after a mini-break – hit me up if you're a founder, startup or VC - especially with LLMs pulling from earned media - smart, strategic PR is more valuable than ever. Full post shorturl.at/VfD3c.

Wagestream acquires pension technology provider Zippen tech.eu/2025/07/16/w...

👀 Spotted yourself in Google’s new AI-powered search yet? Love it or hate it, it's here to stay - while there's no guaranteed way to feature prominently, here's some practical steps to increase your chances…without breaking the bank. 💸 tinyurl.com/3b3kz759 #FridayPR101Day

Wagestream secures £300M debt financing to expand its alternative to high-interest loans tech.eu/2025/05/07/w...

Proud and privileged to announce that I was named one of the UK's top 50 independent PR practitioners, in the Independent Impact 50 awards lnkd.in/d4WutAa9. Massive thank you to 72Point @prca-hq.bsky.social @cipr.co.uk @rodcartwright.bsky.social Nigel Sarbutts Socially Mobile @provokemedia.com

OpenAI's image generator for ChatGPT, AI & sustainability - the 'post doll' era and real-world energy metrics. Bonus visual- image use & other everyday activities vs energy consumption bit.ly/4jBrtV2 #AIinPR *(Pls excuse spelling mistakes, I skipped fixing to keep image generation to a minimum ;))

What better way to kick off the week than a guest lecture @citystgeorges.bsky.social? I had a blast talking #CrisisComms, #AIwashing & #PR career advice w/ students on the Strategic Communication course; thanks much again for the invite to Dr Shubhda Arora - always a privilege & pleasure!

The folks at @standard.co.uk.web.brid.gy asked me to look at what impact the Labour government's plan for AI will have on the tech sector www.standard.co.uk/news/tech/la...

I tried something! Let me know if this works for you. This is a handbuilt list of journalists, academics, industry figures, activists et al on Bluesky who are focused on tech — especially online platforms, social media and AI. Click "Pin to Home" if you find it worthwhile: bsky.app/profile/will...

OpenAI unveils a new ChatGPT agent for ‘deep research’

🚀 Europe’s leading #AI companies, research institutions and @eurohpc-ju.bsky.social's centers combine their forces to develop next-generation open-source language models to advance European AI capabilities, the #OpenEuroLLM project. Press release: www.lumi-supercomputer.eu/open-euro-llm/ #LLM #LLMs

DeepSeek gets Silicon Valley talking

Thousands protest in #Thessaloniki, #Greece, chanting "I have no oxygen," demanding justice for the Tempe train disaster that claimed 57 lives. Demonstrators nationwide called for accountability and additional reforms in rail safety. #Tempe

How VCs and investors can amplify their portfolio companies’ success with PR Busy start to 2025 – nonetheless, the first #FridayPR101Day of the year is upon us, and this week we’re diving into how VCs and investors can amplify their portfolio companies’ success with the power of PR. Whether you’re…

Small studio, big impact: how MixRift is redefining MR gaming

WPP employees push back on return-to-office policy with petition #pr #comms

Artificial Intelligence: Plan to 'unleash AI' across UK revealed

Some thoughts about the government’s ambitious new plans for UK AI

The Guardian view on content moderation: Meta did far too little. Now it wants to do even less | Editorial

Facebook and X must comply with UK online safety laws - minister

Your messages going back years are likely still lurking online, potentially exposing sensitive information you forgot existed. But there's no time like the present to do some digital decluttering.

Happy New Year everyone from sunny(ish) Greece. Wishing health, happiness and success to everyone for an awesome 2025!

Insolvent flying taxi startup Lilium has found a buyer. A group named Mobile Uplift Consortium has agreed to buy Lilium’s assets. Details on the investors behind the group are sparse — though Lilium says that they're based across Europe and North America. sifted.eu/articles/lil...

Officially on holidays - wishes from over the rainbow. Merry Xmas and a happy new year when it comes, to everyone!

56 US startups have become unicorns so far in 2024: Here’s the full list

Instagram now lets you schedule DMs

Sundays are for gorgeous sunsets aye

Fresh #FridayPR101Day post: Choosing Between a PR Agency and a Freelancer - What’s Right for Your Needs? tinyurl.com/w28zrpnn. Any upcoming topic ideas, more than welcome!

Such an important topic - and sadly not limited to the UK. Greece is so much worse, with more issues arising from this.

IGN, GamesIndustry.biz, and Humble losing talent due to soft layoffs

Chaos has landed! Crit Attack is here - a free Mixed Reality arcade shooter packed with 90s nostalgia! Protect your living room from a monster invasion this holiday season. Fast. Fun. Family-friendly. Download now! 👉 meta.com/experiences/... #CritAttack #MixedReality #RetroGaming #MetaStore

Ian King quits Business Live and will leave Sky News in Spring www.cityam.com/ian-king-qui...

How can you make @bsky.app profitable without enshittifying the platform? We asked CEO @jay.bsky.team about her plans for the company at #WIREDBigInterview: wired.trib.al/kFm4jPL

Scientists Uncover 'Game-Changing' Therapy for Asthma Attacks https://gizmodo.com/scientists-uncover-game-changing-therapy-for-asthma-attacks-2000532798

Loyalty cards offer genuine savings, says watchdog

🚨 TechCrunch's official starter pack is live 🚨

Saving the world, one virus at a time #DrMario #Nintendo Some 90s nostalgia, anyone?

Another #FridayPR101Day post is live: Why is December the sweet spot for 2025 PR planning? Read more here tinyurl.com/a4eknsmm #PRtips #PRplanning

Morning. I've been up for a few hours helping push out our Black Friday coverage. If you need to buy something, there's a good chance it's on sale. All of our deals are only on products we have tested (and like). www.wired.com/story/absolu... More at @wired.com We'll be here all weekend!

Google’s new chess game lets you customize pieces with AI

Wishing an early #HappyThanksgiving to all US BlueSky-ers. Nice reminder for all of us actually to practice some gratitude (and dance, and turkeys)

Some news: amid rapid growth and some over-enforcement of its community guidelines, Bluesky trust and safety chief @aaron.bsky.team tells me the company will quadruple the size of its content moderation team www.platformer.news/bluesky-grow...

Bitcoin is trading stubbornly below $100k after a week in which it looked like the token was on track to smash that level. Analysts tell me there's likely to be some profit-taking going on after the cryptocurrency's huge post-election gains. More here: www.cnbc.com/2024/11/25/b...

#OnThisDay 3 years ago, @cipr-global.bsky.social’s The AI & Big Data Readiness Report was lauched from our #AIinPR panel. Great research that demonstrated the huge potential of #AI & Big Data for #PR early on-lead by Prof Anne Gregory, Swati Virmani & @andismit.bsky.social cipr.co.uk/CIPR/CIPR/Le...