Birmingham’s Biggest Tweeters

There are a number of tools around for calculating the popularity and impact of particular twitter feeds. As a consultancy interested in helping clients to influence and engage – rather than simply promote – we were struck by TweetLevel which has been developed by Edelman, a leading PR agency (one day, people will use tools developed by Urban but we’ll live with drawing on the greater resources of more established agencies for now!).

Urban’s Latest Musings

Here are the links to Urban’s latest blogs from the past week, or you can access from the News tab (top menu).

• Brand Dutton and Brand Birmingham – Reflections following Clive Dutton’s ‘exit interview’ with the Birmingham Post.
• Is the Sun setting on the Tories a dark days for Labour? – What does it mean for Labour now that The Sun has switched sides?
• Trust in the Trust – Kevin calls for some re-positioning of the BBC Trust.
• Mayoral Manifesto – A look at Centre for Cities’ 4-point plan to empower cities to bring the UK out of the recession.
  

Urban Client Services Executive

Natalie Chiang, has recently been promoted to the position of Client Services Executive.  Natalie joined Urban Communications in 2007 as a Graduate Trainee and then Client Services Assistant following her graduation from Cardiff University.

New Client

Rosetta Life, which offers relief to terminally ill people by providing a creative service which enables them to document their lives, has appointed Urban to provide public relations support to their activities within the West Midlands region.