Here are five nuggets of hyperlink goodness, provided by a rather fine Manchester PR Agency (yes, us):

• If your agency doesn’t use these PR metrics then sack them.
• Keep your eye on Plexus Engine.
• Fancy reading up on a few cheeky WordPress plugins?
• There must be an easier way to find wifi hotspots than this nifty Foursquare app?
• Google+ pages for business.  Yawn.

More hyperlink goodness from your most cherished Manchester PR agency.

• Kevin Rose has launched Oink, a service which I think really should just be a function of Foursquare
• New feature makes Google+ more relevant for PRs
• 10 reasons why PR matters.  Some old chestnuts in here but always worth a reminder
• Thinking about a social media department?  Don’t bother, it doesn’t exist in isolation.
• In my humble opinion PR can bring a lot to good web design
• Daily Mail’s clarifications and corrections section just gets larger each week.  This is what the kids call a ROFL
• Google launches gmail app with glitches.  World goes mad
• United launch its own social network because our 660million fans can’t all come from Manchester

Here are another six links to interesting internet nuggets and trivia, as shared  by your favourite Manchester-based PR agency:

• An interesting look at what ‘thought leaders’ believed exhibitions might have looked like now
• We really should enter the Golden Hedgehogs
• Obama turns to Tumblr
• Two good pressies for beginners.  What is newsworthy? and proof reading.
• Flow visualisation in Google Analytics.  Useful
• A bit of Roy Keane, which still makes good viewing despite the context of the Manchester derby.

Here are six links to interesting internet stuff and nonsense, provided by your favourite Manchester public relations agency:

• Group scheduling tool Doodle reached 10million users
• Am I the only person that still likes Quora?  Not according to this article.
• Do PR people always pick the low hanging fruit before the wheels come off? Brush up on your buzzwords?
• NLP in digital marketing.  Forget it at your peril.
• I love you Dropbox.  That is all.
• And finally, the Daily Mash sticks it to the Stone Roses.

Here are some top links which put the PR into Public Relations.

1. Measuring SEO for PR

2. Another cool news curation tool

3. A tidy post on geeky digital media presences

4. A CIA problem solving check-list- ideal for pitches

PUBLIC RELATIONS – Here are some links which tickled my whistle this week. Let me know if you find any of these useful.

My blog is now listed on the PR All Top. All Top is Guy Kawasaki’s project, which aggregates the internet. I’m chuffed!

Twitter voicemail tool.
An interesting tool, but still a little irrelevant if you are the only person to use it. (Plus, I’ve not tested it yet)

More WordPress Plugins
I use all these apart from the last navigation plugin, which I will be test driving later this week.

How Small Business is using Social Media
I don’t normally link to Mashable as the likelihood is that if you are reading this post then you probably read Mashable religiously. However, statistics on small business are as rare, which is bizarre seeing that 90 per cent of companies are SMEs, so I thought I would point this post out.

Create a website without knowing anything about CSS or HTML
Flavor Me looks like a pretty good way to build a website. I am putting it to the test right now.

My public relations links and tips of the week are below.

30 Twitter Hacks and Plugins to Spice Up Your WordPress Blog
I’ve not put any of these Twitter hacks to the test on WordPress. I shall do soon. Some good ones.

Facebook Largest News Reader?
Facebook, the biggest source of news on the internet. Well I never…

Lifehacker – Twitter Google Chrome extension
Again, bloody useful. Oh, isn’t the internet a wonderful thing?

Daily Perfect is a stunning new news curation tool
I’m addicted to this already. Could be a lot better, but give them time….

Foursquare will never catch on
I wrote this post for Citypress, the public relations consultancy which I work for.

Here are a few links to interesting articles which I found this week

Excellent Resources Help You Create Your Own Social Networking Site
This is very geeky reading but there are some excellent tools, tips and plugins here for the digital and web savvy social media professional

How To Rank Top In Google
Nice summary of SEO, should you need to explain it to a client or marketing contact

List of The Top Free Press Release Sites — Moola Days
Public Relations professionals can argue whether news agencies are useful or not for securing press coverage, but what you can’t deny is that this blog has the most definitive list

20 Real-World Uses for Google Wave
What I like about this post is that it doesn’t get carried away and gives real, tangible uses. Any PR professional who has read up on Google Wave will have come across these uses before. However too often Google Wave blogs talk about the platform like it is a cure for cancer, while this post reiterates the most useful functionality