28/08/2011

Now hiring

Back from a short holiday and I’m now fortunate to be in the position to say that we have several positions available at MPiRe, the Muscat-based boutique PR firm, both for traditional PR and social media.

WHAT WE NEED
  1. Experienced PR executives in possession of the right mix of skills, ranging from good technical and analytical skills to soft and interpersonal skills. You must be a 'jack of all trades'.
  2. Fluency in Arabic and English.
  3. Someone with an insistence on honesty, transparency and integrity.
          WHAT WE WANT
  1. Someone with community management experience.
  2. Great communicators comfortable with teaching social media to others.
  3. Someone with a social media profile in one or several of the popular social networks.
  4. Salespeople who can help us grow our social media clientele.
          WHAT YOU GET OUT OF THIS
  1. A well-paid job with a cool ‘conversation’ agency.
  2. Working with national clients.
  3. Staff blogging privileges on Oman Collective Intelligence.
  4. Sole responsibility for accounts to build your resume and reputation.
  5. An overall rewarding experience.
  6. An awesome boss...:)
HERE’S HOW YOU GET THE JOB
  1. I don't want CVs. Connect with me through Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin or the blog. I’m easy to find.
  2. Tell me why you are the person we’ve described.
  3. Send me a mail with a short list of what you’ve done and where I can find evidence of it. Or have a full profile on Linkedin. It’s easier that way.
  4. Understand this will be a competitive search and while several positions are available I will only choose the very best! Be outstanding.
You don't have any experience but you are ambitious, creative and hard-working? I suggest you give it a try...;)

Ready? Connect with me now

12/08/2011

I'm off!


See you in a few weeks!

06/08/2011

Brilliant example of promoting a city

Toronto is Trending is a great example of how to creatively and originally promote a city. The site pulls in social media info and aggregates tweets, check-ins and blogs, and allows you to see the city through the eyes of the locals, which is just what you want to do when you're planning a trip.
It is an awesome tourism campaign from Tourism Toronto and a visually compelling and unique initiative. You can select categories, see the top trending topics for the week, how many people have checked into different venues as well as live camera feeds.
Will it help promoting the city though? Only time will tell really as a lot of participation would need to come from the locals and residents of the city. Regardless….really good work!

02/08/2011

Top 15 brands on Twitter

Our friends at Socialbakers have just published some stats on brands on Twitter. I’ll just post here the Top 15 but if you visit their page you’ll also find the most popular personalities, media, and much more.

#
Screen name
Following
Followers
Tweets
1
567,774
1,986,996
16,968
2
113,398
1,640,881
8,269
3
548,562
1,639,505
4,581
4
15
1,612,405
3,816
5
78,625
1,581,673
7,689
6
35
1,581,506
1,572
7
3,125
1,571,016
10,983
8
779
1,555,357
3,905
9
31,710
1,403,567
12,038
10
277,402
1,355,276
2,982
11
100
1,326,478
890
12
140
1,276,305
15,948
13
77
1,273,168
874
14
10,059
1,153,455
7,160
15
1,986
1,099,681
21,391