Surrey Media News (United Kingdom)

DollObservers.com, the online community for fashion doll lovers, has announced the finalists for it's first Fashion Doll Awards. With 10 categories representing the best of the doll industry, nominees including Mattel, Tonner Doll and Integrity Toys.

FreshNetworks has initiated the strategic social media strategy for Telefónica Europe. The initiation will involve training 29,000 employees across Europe.

Elite Soccer is an online magazine for soccer coaches and is published by a partnership between the League Managers Association and Green Star Media. The partners have announced an extension to their partnership following the success of the magazine.

Blogging brings no easy money- A segment in 'Blog Your Voice' that showcases 4 featured segments from and for the blogging world- Protest against plagiarism

New service launched to help B2B companies pursue revenue generating opportunities that often get neglected due to lack of resources, expertise or 'the day job'.

On Thursday 11th December 2008 the CEO of The Accessory People Group, Nasa Khan, presented a cheque to the CEO of Crimestoppers, Michael Laurie CBE, for an impressive 34K.

Green Star Media has won a Media Pioneer award, awarded to specialist media businesses who embody innovative thinking. MD Andrew Griffiths outlines five key factors behind Green Star's success in converting website readers to paying customers.

New agency, The PR Farm (www.theprfarm.com), has announced that it is open for business. The Surrey-based agency kicks off having just won fine food brand and premium smoked salmon producer John Ross Jr (www.johnrossjr.com).

Bringing award winning special effects and motion graphics to the UK presentation design market. Mediastation proved that they were top of their game by winning a 3 way competitive pitch.

All over the place – More and more businesses are coming online to get their share of the pie from online web surfers who are turning their attention to finding people to do business with online.

. The Latvian airline airBaltic was chosen for anna.aero ANNIES Award as Europe's largest flag carrier by new routes. In Europe, CIS and the Middle East airBaltic operates 27 routes more in the summer season of 2010, compared to summer 2009.

The KLIX drinks vending website has been transformed with a fresh look and easy to use navigation.

Charity social networking event held at Farnham Castle hailed a huge success

Nick Halsted has confirmed that he will deliver a speech at Farnham's first Twestival

Farnham Castle to play host to Twestival on 25th March 2010

A free Tweet-up is being planned for the local Twitter community to meet, network and socialise in Farnham, Surrey at 7pm on 3 February 2010. This social networking event is open to local businesses, journalists, PRs or any digital media enthusiast.

PR in a crisis is a challenge for any communications team. Being well prepared and practised is the key to getting the right message across at the right time.

I really love this idea. The concept of cramming all the knowledge you can into one place and making it accessible to the world is so bold and so ambitious that you have to admire the guys at WolframAlpha for trying to pull it off.

PR is currently experiencing a squeeze from other disciplines.

Surrey PR company, thebluedoor, awarded industry standard of excellence and predicts further growth. As it moves into its second year of business, Surrey based PR agency, thebluedoor, is celebrating.

Is Advertising Value Equivalent an effective solution?

It was great to see the Twitter debate kick off at Internet World today.

KLIX sponsors Cateys 09 - We’re delighted to share the news that we are sponsoring ‘The Best Group Marketing Award’ at the 2009 Caterer & Hotelkeeper Awards (“Cateys”).

Political corruption and conspiracies always make good headlines, but there is one story this week that is an interesting mix of fact and fiction. And it’s one that is of real interest to those of us involved in digital PR.

With the launch of our new website this week (www.thebluedoor.com), I have become increasingly obsessed with our Google Analytics software, checking it on an hourly basis to see who is visiting and where they come from.

This weekend the British national newspapers were full of reviews of Barack Obama’s first 100 hours in office. Debate over his ability to continue his use of the web as proactively as he did during his campaign formed a large part.

Claims made by Alex Wissner-Gross in The Sunday Times article, “Google and you’ll damage the planet” (January 11, 2009) have created considerable debate.

We’re only a few days into 2009 and many New Year resolutions have already been broken or put on hold.

The role of service providers, especially PR consultants, was the panel discussion topic at this month’s excellent TechCrunch talk in London, hosted by Mike Butcher. PR was a hot topic - many start-ups having had bad experiences of PR.