Wednesday, February 11, 2015

think you are too small? What about a mosquito?!



120 Landmark Buildings go green
Who says small can’t make an impact?  As the image above says, "If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito!"  Tourism Ireland has done a fab job over the past few years arranging for landmark buildings around the globe to go green on Paddy’s Day.  This year, Newstalk tells us that the Colosseum and others join the list – take a look at the video from 2014 of the ‘greening’ – their ultimate is the Great Wall of China but I was wowed by Table Mountain in South Africa.

Irish Children’s Digital Experience
Plenty of interesting stuff in this Irish Times piece on “Net Children go Mobile 2015” report from DIT which surveyed 500 Irish children.  It found that despite an age barrier of 13, 40% of 11-12 years have an online profile – but that’s down from 51% in 2011.   The report deals with ‘stranger danger’, online bullying and access to unsuitable or distressing content – 1 in 5 say they have accessed the latter.

New Business Editor
The more ‘vintage’ of us PR people will remember when Vincent Wall was a business journalist – a very good one and always a pleasure to deal – and then he joined us PR people on ‘the dark side’.  Not agency but in-house but let’s not allow facts to get in the way of a good story! But the Irish Independent tell us that he’s returning to the fourth estate as the new Business Editor of Newstalk!  We wish him well!



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