What’s it like working virtually to a homeworking newbie? Sue, our new PR admin support enlightens us.
Midlands PR agency sponsors Remote Worker Awards
We're sponsoring the Remote Worker Awards. Check out our press release: Midlands PR agency Vitis PR announced today that it is sponsoring the PR prize for The Remote Worker Awards. Award winning Vitis PR consultancy specializes in providing senior level PR services to its clients. While offering technology public relations, the team has also worked across many other vertical sectors including retail, logistics, healthcare, publishing, financial services, education, recruitment and marketing.
First PR agency job….by our latest recruit
We asked Nadine, who works as our account administration, to let you know what it's like working for us.
Vitis PR agency February 2010 update
Another uber busy month has kept us away from the blog. February started with a trip down to Farnborough to represent our embedded electronics consultancy client at the Southern Manufacturing and Electronics Show. We met with 8 journalists during the day and picked up some great show preview coverage in Elektor, Design Products and Electronics among others.
Samples of media coverage and Vitis tech PR agency update
It's been another interesting month for our tech PR agency.
I wanted to share just a few pieces of media coverage we have generated for our clients in October, so you get an idea of what we can achieve. It's hard to put the list in order as the stories mean different things to different clients and we can't put everything here, so here are some of the ones we are most proud of:
- Yuuguu review on BBC's flagship consumer technology programme - BBC Click
Busy Week at Vitis PR
It's been a pretty busy week at mission control and all outlying regional offices ;-).
We've been working on the West Midlands ICT Cluster newsletter, generating interest in the new Yuuguu for Skype integration, promoting Rapide Communication's enhanced text booking confirmation service and working on telling more of our contacts about Magic Software's application platform.
Our client joins the Linux Foundation
credativ has just announced that it joined the Linux Foundation. We wrote and distributed and sold in the news to targeted media. We also arranged a face to face meeting with a leading open source journalist who we hope to provide more stories to in the future. Here are a few of the sites that…
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Some of the daily tasks of a PR agency administrative assistant
We've been really busy and Nadine, who does our admin is off at the mo, so we got a temp in...also called Nadine, a PhD holder who's filling in time until she gets a job. At the end of her first stint in a PR agency, we got her to summarise what she's done for us, so if you're thinking of going into PR admin, here's what you may be expected to do.
Generally speaking, administrative assistants are responsible for a variety of administrative and clerical duties necessary to run an organisation efficiently. They serve as information and communication managers for an office; plan and schedule meetings and appointments; organise and maintain paper and electronic files; manage projects, conduct research, and disseminate information over the phone, email or websites.
Month in the life of a PR agency admin assistant
We asked Nadine, who looks after our admin, to write about what she's been up to this month. "This month has been a very busy one for our PR agency with the addition of several new clients. But with it has brought the opportunity to learn new skills, including things I never thought possible without…
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Small business VoIP from Cloud Net
We work for a great small business VoIP company called Cloud Net. They provide plug and play internet telephones and switchboard. We like the idea so much that we have switched our business phone system to theirs. It's already saving us money and is really easy to control online.