Emma’s Beautique is Capital FM‘s annual beauty event on the south coast. It brings beauty brands together to showcase the latest trends in make up and skincare and it’s presented by Capital breakfast host Emma Jo Real Davies.
I went from being a guest to a panelist Emma’s Beautique, a Capital FM beauty event, in the blink of an eye.
Continue reading “On the panel at Emma’s Beautique hosted by Capital FM”
Bright Lights Big City was featured in the 23 March edition of ‘This week in PR’ on PR Place.
Continue reading “Bright Lights Big City features in ‘This week in PR’, PR Place, 23 March”
Oh my goodness, where do I start? I’ve got a lot to learn. Here’s 10 video basics that I’ve learnt from doing my first vlog. Continue reading “What I’ve learnt from filming my first vlog”
Find out what advice I have from this year’s speed networking event for students held by the Public Relations department at Southampton Solent University. Continue reading “Meet the Professionals 2018 at Solent University”
Continue reading “The #StartingOut Series – Vlogger Brogan Tate”
Pick your friends carefully if you want to be able to get back into your Facebook account! Continue reading “Would you trust your friends with your Facebook account?”
The annual Meet the Professionals event at Southampton Solent is a valuable networking event for students. This year it was in the newly completed Spark building and attracted a much bigger crowd.
It is a fantastic opportunity for Southampton students studying public relations, advertising, marketing and creative subjects to see what’s available in the local area, network and pick up valuable advice.
This is my third year doing the event, the first as a student and the second and third as a PR professional. Read about the tips and tricks I picked up and gave out at this year’s event. Continue reading “Meet the Professionals 2017 at Solent University”
Southampton Solent University students have decided to curate their own public relations textbook and they are looking for contributions from PR professionals.
Continue reading “PR students’ curation creation”
MAC Cosmetics recently launched their new Liptensity lip sticks and they invited the bloggers of Southampton to a special preview event to take a peek.
The battle of keeping up with all the blogs you want to read may have just taken a step closer to being a bit more manageable.
Blog Lovin’ is a new service that curates blogs on topics of your choosing, the bloggers you follow and connects you to potential advertisers and paid blog opportunities. If you are short on time, and let’s face it who isn’t, this a one stop shop for keeping up to date with all your favourite blogs.
The step-by-step process when you sign up guides you through adding your blog to the site. Don’t worry if you can’t find your blog at first. I emailed them and a few days later it was added for me and they sent me a lovely email to let me know!
To connect your blog you need to ‘claim your blog’ which then gives you a code. It then asks you to post a new blog post with that code which allows Blog Lovin’ to recognise your site and display your blog posts.
Once you’ve added your details, added a picture and changed the settings to your liking you are all ready to go. This was a fairly quick set up process for me, it took me about 15 minutes once my site was recognised.
When it connects it lists all your blog posts in a wall that can be clicked on by your followers, under a tab called ‘Everything’. It also shows all your followers and other blogs similar to yours under two separate tabs.
Along the top row are five headings, a bell symbol that lets you know when you have new notifications and a silhouette of a person or your image once you upload one, that takes you to your account menu.
My Feed
The blog posts are laid out simply and are really user friendly…
It gives you the option to read it by clicking on the title, save it, share it through social media or email and mark it as read so you can keep an eye on what you have read already.
When saving it gives you the option to create a category so you can organise your saved blogs for when you come back to them later. This I find really useful because I don’t always have the time to read things but love to come back to post. 
Explore
This gives you multiple ways to find new blogs. It gives some popular categories across the top, further categories under more, or you can use the top right hand search function to conduct some manual searches of your own…
Find Blogs
This works in a similar way to ‘Explore’ but rather than listing it by topic this is a search function for the person behind the blog.
Activate
Activate allows you to instigate the networking side of the Blog Lovin’. By filling out your blog details it will match you to incoming PR and advertising opportunities, some of which are paid in money or gifted items.
Shop
This is another great feature of the site, it curates items from blogs and gives you the links or place where you can buy the products. Which instantly answers the ‘Oh my god, I love that, where can I get it?’ question that I usual have when reading blogs that feature amazing products.
It looks like a useful resource to discover new blogs, network, find new blogging opportunities and get more followers. I’m going to trial it for a few months and see if it helps improve followers to my blog. If you like it and create a profile don’t forget to add me too!
Click here to follow my blog on Blog Lovin’!
Know of any other good blogging sites? If so, please feel free to share in the comments!
Or if you want me to follow you on Blog Lovin’ then again please put your blog link and a message in the comment section.
