You know the drill – all you need to do to take part is tweet your “caption” to @revolverpr, post it to our facebook wall or add your comment to the blog below. We’ll announce the winner tomorrow – good luck!

This week’s winning caption, chosen by Account Director Helen Reid came from @anniemac63 :

This made us giggle – Garfield does indeed look very unimpressed with his get-up and ready to pounce! Congratulations, a virtual mulled wine is winging its way to you!

You know the drill – all you need to do to take part is tweet your “caption” to @revolverpr, post it to our facebook wall or add your comment to the blog below. We’ll announce the winner tomorrow – good luck!

This week’s winning caption came from @summerdaze7 :

The interns were challenged to make something famous while changing public perception and The Social Tattoo Project was their solution. The project’s premise is to sponsor unique tattoos based around major world issues that are then tattooed onto volunteers. To implement this, their social strategy involved asking Twitter and Facebook followers each week to vote between four trending twitter topics and, at the end of the week, the winning topic is chosen.

This innovative positive action demonstrates that sustainable and credible communication is key to captivating ongoing interest and empathy in the message and ultimately maintain the momentum of a campaign long term.

“Someone’s empathy can expire,” says Jenn Huang, co creator of The Social Tattoo Project. “If you ask someone now what’s happening in Haiti they probably couldn’t tell you, so we came up
with a social experiment where we make empathy permanent by tattooing volunteers.”

Head over to their Youtube page to see what causes they’ve inked up so far, from #poverty to #Norway, and show your support by following the campaign on their Twitter and Facebook. To continue, as the project’s budget decrease, more volunteers willing to cover the cost of ink are needed, so the feeling behind the issue quite rightly doesn’t disappear and remains in the public eye.

The site works by allowing you to select a topic of your choice and then search for related news articles, Tweets, Facebook posts, Flickr photos and then prompts you to drag and drop them into a multimedia story which can then be embedded into any website.

“We have so many real-time streams now, we’re all drowning,” Storify founder Burt Herman told the New York Times. “So the idea of Storify is to pick out the most important pieces, amplify them and give them context.”
The site is becoming increasingly popular in the USA with over 5,000 sites and blogs including The New York Times, The Washington Post and NPR (National Public Radio) using Storify to create and share ‘stories’. With more than 13 million views accumulated over the past 4 months it seems that Storify really is the next big thing.

Fancy giving it a go? You can sign in with your twitter account and get started right away! We’d love to hear your thoughts!

The mobile marketing and multi platform competition, DS4 Seekers is essentially a massive game of hide and seek where players hide a virtual DS4s in the streets around them.

After registering on their Facebook page, players are given a virtual DS4 to hide across Google Mobile Maps and Streetview. Players are then rewarded points if they successfully hide it from competitors or if they find a rival’s virtual Citreon DS4s. The points gives the player one entry in the draw to win a brand new DS4, the more points won gives them more entries and more chances to win.

As tablet and smartphone sales set to eclipse laptop and computer sales this year, knowledge of how best to implement new technology combined with innovative digital campaigns like this is essential to companies wishing to stand out.

The Revolver PR team are back, our visas’ expired but far from weary. We’ve brought home a token to serve the memory of our most fondly remembered jaunts, can you guess where it is?

We’ve dotted little picture postcard clues below and on our twitter and facebook pages to help.

Piece them together and either tweet your entry followed by #RevolverPR or guess away on our facebook page or right here. The first to guess the location correctly wins our grand prize!

Here’s the first piece of the picture!

Good Luck!


(The blast of a triumphant trumpet) Well done Alec for guessing GoApe correctly!



Have a great weekend folks!

Reports from the USA suggest that facebook is doing more than just keeping people connected…it’s helping police to fight crime!
Local police across America have started using Facebook to post information on local cases and to ask the public for help.
Feedback from officers suggests that Facebook users really are helping them to catch the bad guys. “Witnesses are using our local page to give us really useful information,” said Sgt. Joe Smart of the Conroe Police Department (Texas). Police in the area have been using Facebook to profile suspects and criminals since May this year. Local people have through facebook directly helped to arrest three people and to gather leads on several other open cases.
Police are also using the networking site to posts heat maps to tell the public where thefts, burglaries, car break-ins and other crimes are happening in the local area.

Across the border in Canada, the Toronto Police Service is joining in on the facebook action. The force has a new social media initiative, encouraging officers to sign up for Facebook, specifically stating that they are a member of the local police force.
The goal is to have around 200 officers with online profiles by early November. The program is designed to improve communication between police and the public. “We’ve prevented some pretty serious incidents simply because people reached out to the few police officers that openly stated that they were in the police on their social media sites,” said Const. Scott Mills, the force’s social media officer.
Mills continued to explain that two years ago, a Facebook friend alerted him to someone posting anti-Semitic rants on their Facebook account, which led to the person’s arrest and prevented what police deemed to be a violent attack threat.
Earlier this month, the Toronto police website added a facebook page where users can report lost property, crimes under $5,000 and traffic complaints.

Across the country in Vancouver, police received more than 3,500 email tips (many linked to Facebook photos of the rioters) in the week following the Stanley Cup riot which resulted in 140 civilians and nine police officers being injured, and saw 101 people arrested after trouble broke out at the annual ice hockey tournament.

Social networking certainly seems to be helping law enforcement in the USA. What do you think about the police using social media? Would it work in this country? We’d love to hear your thoughts!

We’ve left little picture postcard clues down below , and on our twitter, and facebook pages.

Fame, glory and sun tans await…

Piece them together and either tweet your entry followed by #RevolverPR or guess away on our blog or facebook page. The first to guess the location correctly wins our grand prize!

Here’s the first piece of the picture!

Good Luck!

Once again you lot are far to well travelled for us ! You guessed ‘Bankies Bike’ in Clydebank correctly! (well done to @LadyKentmores and @ChrisCathcart).
Never to be defeated however, we’ve got another picture for you, and this one’s a real toughie!…can guess where we are this time?

As usual, find your next two clues on our twitter, and facebook pages.

Double Drum roll please…..this week’s have two iSpy winners!

The winning answer for the first location (‘Bankies Bike’ in Clydebank) came from….George Johnson from @LadyKentmores antiques. Well done George!

And (drum roll again please) our second iSpy location (Alton Towers) was correctly guessed by the eagle eyed @KevinGilmartin Congratulations Kevin!

Have a great weekend!

You may have heard the terrible news from Mumbai last week of three bomb blasts in congested areas during the evening rush hour which killed at least 21 people and injured more than 100 others.
Nitin Sagar was following news developments on twitter from his office in New Delhi. Noticing the amount of people tweeting to offer help to victims and their families, and aware of the power that twitter has to quickly reach an incredible amount of people Sagar created a Google docs spreadsheet to act as a collective hub of contact details from those offering assistance in the hope that they could help an injured person on the street or a relative desperately searching for a loved one.
He inserted the details of five people and posted a link to twitter inviting people to add to it before he left work at 8 p.m

Just half hour later, the spreadsheet had grown to include the names of hundreds of people who wanted to donate blood, provide shelter, help transport people or help in any way possible. By the end of the night, the spreadsheet had been viewed by thousands and re-tweeted by even more. Most importantly, it had been successfully used by people who needed help.

Anirubh Sharma, a technology worker from Bangalore, saw the link on Twitter. A friend of his was killed when the Taj Mahal Palace Tower hotel came under attack in 2008. Sharma offered an airline coupon for a free ticket to anyone who needed to travel in or out of Mumbai to reach an injured friend or family member.
His soon received a call from a man who was desperately trying to reach his injured daughter.
“It’s easy to make noise,” he said. “But instead of just ranting on Facebook and Twitter, why not do something good?”

Sagar took the spreadsheet down once the need for emergency help dissipated, but has said that he plans to keep working on establishing more databases, so that if and when the need arises again, there will already be a relief database in place.
Clearly not one to bask under the ‘Good Samaritan’ banner that has been put upon him, Sagar this week tweeted: “Dear new followers gained in the wake of a truly delusional momentary Twitter glory, good luck. I am genuinely annoying on most days.”

A fantastic story that highlights the massive reach of digital communications.

We’ve left little picture postcard clues down below , and on our twitter, and facebook pages.

Fame, glory and sun tans await…

Piece them together and either tweet your entry followed by #RevolverPR or guess away on our blog or facebook page. The first to guess the location correctly wins our grand prize!

Here’s the first piece of the picture!

Good luck everyone!

Drum roll please…..this week’s iSpy location was Belfast! Belfast City Hall to be precise!
The first winning answer came from…..Chris Mullan on our facebook page! Congratulations Chris!

And the prize Chris? A postcard all the way from the fair city of Belfast!

Have a great weekend everyone!