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The Turner Ink blog contains rants, bloopers, observations and opinions. It also has handy tips on grammar and punctuation, and useful ‘how tos’. Feel free to share the love.

19 Nov 2009

Posted at 12:39h in Interviews with cool people, Press Release writing and PR, Social media by
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For this month’s interview I’ve managed to pin down the ridiculously busy Jonny Stark, an Account Director from online PR agency immediate future, to talk about online PR, using Social Media and, of course, Twitter.   Turner Ink: Hey Jonny, thanks for stopping by. Ok, tell us a bit about online PR. How does it differ from traditional PR? Jonny Stark: People get...

13 Nov 2009

Posted at 19:27h in Bloopers, Press Release writing and PR, Website & SEO copywriting by
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Copy spotted on a PR agency website today. I dunno. Perhaps luxury goods brands like this kind of thing. But it all seems a bit lah-di-dah to me. What do you think? [Something] PR is cognisant of the connoisseurship and the hunger for luxury goods and services by the affluent market. Our agency knows how to communicate to that luxury lifestyle...

06 Nov 2009

Posted at 13:10h in Word stuff by
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Did you know that the English language contains more emotionally positive words than negative words? In fact, it’s about a 60:40 ratio. Surprising that. Considering having a good old moan is practically a national sport. The reason we know this is because the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary has recently been published; and what a beauty it is. Conceived and...