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  <body>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://beta.bristolmedia.co.uk//assets/0000/0243/twitter_logo.jpg" title="twitter logo" alt="twitter logo" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A new social networking website has been launched in the West of England to improve contacts within the PR and news media industry and to open a window on the world of &#8216;blogging&#8217; and &#8216;Twittering&#8217;.  Basic Web 2.0 tools such as Twitter, which allows users to send &#8216;news flashes&#8217; around the world to laptops and mobiles, have transformed the business of &#8216;making and breaking&#8217; the news.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now a Bristol PR agency has developed &amp;quot;www.prBristol.co.uk &amp;quot;:http://www.prBristol.co.uk to stimulate blog debate about Web 2.0 and other industry issues and to share best practice. It also provides a &#8216;front page&#8217; of up-to-the-minute news from &lt;span class="caps"&gt;RSS&lt;/span&gt; feeds and a less formal social space for &#8216;meeting and greeting&#8217;, called The Watering Hole.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Matt Anderson, Commercial Director of Bristol-based Montage Communications who built the site said:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&#8220;Like many other offshoots of the Creative Industries sector, PR is quite fragmented and diverse, taking in PR agencies and in-house staff as well as sole practitioners and freelances &amp;quot;prBristol &amp;#8220;:http://prbristol.co.uk/blog/ can provide a means of &#8216;conversation&#8217; on the web and help bring people together.&amp;#8221;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Matt continued:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot; It will also help journalists to pinpoint stories and pictures that are relevant to them, rather than ploughing through dozens of emails of dubious value.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;</body>
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  <title>Need help to get twittering?</title>
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