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Liverpool's TEDx conference in August was a great success - now the videos of speakers at the creative/digital event have gone online.

PR professional Fritzi Wemheuer with her views on how regional newspapers can thrive in the age of Facebook and Twitter

OVER the next ten years a generation of Myspace, Facebook, Twitter and Flickr users will enter professional life and find themselves confronted with the traces of their teenage years. This will have and already has had consequences for job applicants, but can in a much broader sense affect the way people grow up.

WHO remembers the clunking fist? Today, the volcanic shockwaves thundering through the corridors of power come from a familiar but very different force: the pulverising power of the pen - or, more precisely, newspapers.
The great expenses scandal of 2009 is very good news, not just for newspapers, but also for public relations.
Public relations needs a well-staffed, confident newspaper industry with strong circulation figures.

AN AWARD-WINNING food writer has joined the team at the tourist board to boost the region's destination's culinary appeal to visitors from all over the world.

Anne Benson will be working as food tourism consultant with leading and aspiring local chefs, restaurateurs and suppliers.

She will work with The Mersey Partnership (TMP) tourist board to develop service and quality standards at establishments across the region.

PUBLIC relations firm Paver Smith is in talks to buy rival Factory Communications.

The two Liverpool firms have agreed heads of terms on the deal, and say due diligence is at an "advanced stage".

The deal is set to be completed at the end of May, and would create an enlarged Paver Smith business with 31 staff and a forecast turnover of £2.4m.