Friday Round Up

Tags: Elevate PR, FRU
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Events
Friday Round Up
Media

- Two in a row for London at the Rose of Tralee – we were impressed by host Daithi’s banter with the Roses
- We attended the Prudence Beauty Awards at the lovely Gibson Hotel last night – well done to all the winners and runner ups
- Aer Arann has gone into examinership this week
- After the horrible wheely bin incident in the UK, we were delighted to hear the story of Lilou the cat who went for a trip on the Dart. Iarnród Eireann used twitter to find its owner and the two were reunited yesterday
- Will Dermot Early play a role for Kildare on Sunday in the all Ireland semi-final against Down?

27/08/2010 – 13:01 No Comments

Friday Round Up

Tags: Elevate PR, FRU
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Friday Round Up
Sport

- Grainne Seoige made her GMTV debut earlier this week and is a hit with UK viewers – click here to read more
- Dylan McGrath’s new restaurant, Rustic Stone, is due to open on George’s St later this month – we can’t wait to try it
- This week, Terri Hatcher uploaded some natural looking pictures of her in a towel and no make-up to her Facebook page to “reveal some truths about ‘beauty’”. We salute you Terri.
- Irish swimmer, Grainne Murphy narrowly missed on a medal in the 800m freestyle final at the European swimming championships. She also set a new Irish record in the process.
- Tipperary and Waterford play on Sunday to determine who will face Kilkenny in the All Ireland Hurling Final – Come on the premier!

13/08/2010 – 13:36 No Comments

African update…it’s amazing!

Tags: Elevate PR, Elevators, Tanzania, TanzEd, Volunteer
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Travel

Karen, one of our Account Executives in Elevate, is volunteering in Tanzania for six weeks… here’s how she’s getting on:

I’m having such a great time, and am now half way through the project – I can’t believe how fast it’s going. We’ve just been so busy, it’s crazy! It feels like I’m here about three months not three weeks.

The school I’m teaching in is super nice, it’s called Top Stars and it’s really far away from the place that we’re staying in, but the principal comes and picks us up every morning in her pickup truck which is hilarious because we sit in the back with the bikes and chickens and food and stuff!! We all got bikes because we cycle everywhere! Seriously surprised I haven’t shed half my body weight because there have been daily bouts of sweat and tears on that bike.

In my school, there are only about 10 teachers but they’re all amazing people. It’s a nursery and a primary school so there are super small babies there, who are just adorable. The kids in the school are 3-10, years so they are quite young to be learning computers, but the teachers are really good with them. All our teachers started teaching the kids computers this week and they are really good, its great thinking that we taught them all of the stuff that that they know now…feeling very proud of myself!

Morogoro, the town we’re living in is a nice place up in the mountains. When we were on the way here from Dar Es Saleem, it was scary! You get such a culture shock when you arrive, as there are people everywhere, all living along the sides of the road. On our three hour journey to Morogoro, there wasn’t a second that we didn’t see people living in little houses on the side of the road. All of the African people just stare at us all of the time, they seem gob smacked that we are here. They constantly scream Muzungu at you (“white person”), which took a bit of getting used to, as they stare you right in the face and just roar the word at you!

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20/07/2010 – 10:11 No Comments

Intern Antics

Tags: Cheryl Cole, Donegal, Interns, New York
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By Abi Bock

It was during my interview at Elevate PR when I realized Irish English does not equal American English.

One of my interviewers was from Donegal, enough said. The other asked me to come in at half nine. “Sorry, does that mean half after nine or before?”

I moved to Dublin from New York in January 2010 and have slowly been understanding those slight language barriers.

So, what I’ve learned:

I’m knackered – “I’m really tired,” OH.

“Lovely.” Lovely word, I’m bringing it back with me.

“Grand” – That’s grand, you’re grand, grand, grand, grand – so many usages!

Thanks a mil = Thanks a lot!

Good woman.

“Rubbish” – cute way of saying trash.

Cheryl Cole – I didn’t know who she was before Ireland…

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18/06/2010 – 15:50 6 Comments

PR Surveys

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Social Media
Trends

It seems to be the season for trade and business publications to publish surveys and overviews of the PR industry at the moment. We have participated in three surveys which you will see in the current editions of Marketing Age, IMJ and Business Plus.

Summarising all of the pieces we see the following trends:

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04/05/2010 – 12:52 No Comments

“Give Up Clothes for Good” Campaign

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Since Monday, 5th April 2010 TK Maxx has been urging shoppers to drop in their unwanted quality clothing and household items to any TK Maxx store. Their donations will then be delivered to Enable Ireland shops, where they will be sold to raise funds to provide vital services for children with disabilities across the country.

We’re now in to the final week of the campaign and the Elevate team have been going into overdrive stacking up our ‘Give Up Clothes for Good’ donation bags. Each bag could be worth up to €30 and with every Elevator trying to contribute at least 1 bag each, that’s a donation of up to €360!

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21/04/2010 – 13:47 No Comments

Happy Easter!

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Happy Easter everyone – hope that you eat lots of chocolate.

These are some lovely Easter chics we got a delivery of from a client – his mum is knitting them to raise money for Crumlin Childrens’ Hospital, and they contain a cream egg. Cute or what?

01/04/2010 – 10:36 No Comments

Ode to Interns

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Interns

We are so grateful to our current and past interns who make our lives so much easier here at Elevate. PR is a demanding multi-tasking world and the daily to-do list can be scarily long.

It is wonderful to have enthusiastic young talent around that is eager to learn and delighted to get a taste for what the real world of PR is like (ie lots of computer time, clippings and evaluations).

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29/03/2010 – 11:06 8 Comments