Thank you for your great advice. I agree that a thoughtful or intriguing description is likely to encourage click-throughs and getting the imagery right is a little more difficult but you’re doing a great job!

Keep up the good work!

Is anyone else out there as inventive as http://pinterest.com/ProtocolEd/ ?

I think you need to make the most of images (quite obvious but also perhaps difficult to implement). So for example, make sure you have an image on every blog post/news story/website page, so that as soon as it’s published you can ‘pin’ it right away! That way you’ll never get bogged down with having to share it.

The think I love about Pinterest is that the boards stay up for longer, meaning more people can appreciate the pictures, you can be creative with your pictures (the more creative the better), and you can have fun with it!! Also, the description gives it the flexibility to explain and/or intrigue your followers.

I think Pinterest is ideal for retail and fashion, and recipes, but we have managed to forge our little imprint on there… so watch this space!!

http://www.pinterest.com/ProtocolEd

Enjoy!

Thank you for your comment. It’s great to see an example of Pinterest in action! It seems your board acts as a portal to reach carefully selected teaching resources, which gives it a depth not automatically associated with Pinterest. Do you have any tips for others wanting to use the social network in a similar way?

Carly

We are definitely going to be posting much more as the site develops and grows in popularity, and look forward to following other teaching-related boards too.

If you like you can see our Pinterest here: http://www.pinterest.com/ProtocolEd

Cordelia

Thanks for your message. Apart from the heavy academic text books you will be required to read for different modules, there are a few books which I found indispensible for background information and reference throughout my three years of study:

- Essential English for Journalists by Harold Evens;
- The Public relations Handbook by Alison Theaker;
- The Newspapers Handbook by Richard Keeble;
- Feature Writing: A Practical Introduction by Susan Pape and Susan Featherstaone;

I hope this helps. Good luck with everything! I’m sure you’ll love the course.

Carly

As someone who is about to embark on the same university course as you is there any recommended reading that I could do over the summer? Thanks!

The recruiter-HR relationship is forever a strained one, and probably worse so since `inhouse recruitment` teams popped up. The PSL is one way of putting this distrust and anxiety over the process on a contract.

I’m one of those people who believes HR should oversee the process of recruitment, but not the actions and decisions. Let professionals in line management/directorship talk to professional recruiters who understand their clients’ market.

This would increase the mutual respect factor and develop the relationship – allowing recruiters to be seen genuinely as specialists by the people who understand and ultimately make the hire. Then the comments might bear some different sentiment.

I too am stunned as to why PSL agencies didn’t attend but can’t help but wonder why? Does anyone know the latest rates of the contract PSL that Nokia ask agencies to work to – I’ve been given some numbers but would like some confirmation? I believe Hyphen (Spring) are involved on the perm side.

The bottom line is that if a PSL isn’t working then something has to change. If agencies aren’t interested or can’t supply at certain rates then they should be brave enough to admit that in order that the process can be managed efficiently. It’s a two way street.