There will no doubt be many views expressed over the next few days, weeks and even months about the Revenue and Customs’ loss of 25 million people’s financial details on two disks. It is, of course, appalling. I’m appalled. You can see the whole sorry tale unfold on the BBC website, particularly on Nick [...]
Tag Archives: ethics
Marion Jones: Prophylactic PR
So Marion Jones is using the same platform she achieved by cheating, to admit to cheating. In so doing, is she just making it harder for the rest of us to apologise? Or is there just not enough money in it for ordinary folk? On watching the widely publicised video of her ‘confession’ I must [...]
At worst she feels bad for a while.
Add to New PR • Save to del.icio.us • Digg This! What to make of our oh-so-screwed up celebrities then? Lily Allen recently posts on a blog about feeling fat and ugly. This is very conveniently just before she makes her debut on American TV. She gets headlines in the UK and raises her profile. She [...]
Great speeches change the world
Add to New PR • Save to del.icio.us • Digg This! • Technorati Is speechwriting the same as copywriting? The former is intended to be spoken – performed even - while the latter is usually just for digesting inwardly, and yet they must share common goals such as evoking interest, stimulating thought and hopefully triggering reaction. Great speeches do [...]
New media causes asymmetric PR
Add to New PR • Save to del.icio.us • Digg This! • Technorati Do you remember the term ‘asymmetric war’? It’s been around a while but entered our popular lexicon when describing the capabilities of insurgents to resist the efforts of the West in its ‘War on Terror’. In so doing it encapsulates how a militarily disadvantaged yet widespread [...]
The only post in the world to defend PR people against journalists
I keep coming across stuff about how much journalists hate PR people. Seth Porges at Crunchgear tells us (ok, told us in December) ways in which we can make his life easier, ‘Joanna’ at 72point gives advice on how to approach them while even in India they seem to dislike us. There’s very little out there on [...]
If you’re interested in Whitehouse and Wolfowitz, you’ll love this.
I don’t just receive. Actually, I don’t really receive much at all on this blog. But I do give. Subscribe to my feeds and you get a good all-round view of what’s happening in the PR, journalism, copywriting and tech blogospheres. I’m not going to tell you exactly how I created these feeds, but what I [...]
Military PR is run with military precision. That is why it fails.
A colleague of mine used to work with military PR. Before this all flared up, I was told, at first hand, that really their PR operations are not staffed by PR people, or indeed by anyone with any solid knowledge of the media. They’re staffed by ex-military. Many would argue that the best people to send messages out would [...]
Pictures tell a thousand words – but which words exactly?
The story of the freed British servicemen (and woman) presented an opportunity to compare cover treatments across the UK media, especially regarding the imagery used. The Times’s image was quite sombre, showing tight-lipped soldiers with the only female marine dead-centre, staring directly at the camera. There was an unfortunate implication that one of the Iranians beckoning to them [...]
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- Why Google Shouldn’t Bother With a Home Entertainment GadgetThere’s a rumor going around that Google is planning some kind of home-entertainment device — possibly and answer to the (also rumored) Apple iTV. Apparently Google’s living-room product will be Google-branded, controlled via Android phone or tablet and may eventually expand to do things like control your room lights or kitchen gear. It really sounds like a […]Peter Pachal
- List of Corporate Social Strategist 2012 (Buyer/Brand Side, 1000+ Employees)It’s time for the annual publication of the list of Corporate Social Strategists at companies with over 1000 employees (enterprise class) that are spearheading, leading, and carving out social business at today’s modern corporation. The Corporate Social Strategist Defined Is the business decision maker for social media programs – who provides leadership, roa […]jeremiah_owyang
- 15 Fascinating Twitter Employees You Should Follow1. Kris We're intrigued by the tweets of someone that labels themselves as being "unnecessarily coy" and knows that they will someday live in Paris once their days of working with the "Twitter dudes" are through.Click here to view this gallery.You may follow lots of interesting people on Twitter, but do you follow any Twitter employe […]Brandon Smith
- First Photos of Beyonce’s and Jay-Z’s Baby Emerge on Tumblr [PICS]Blue Ivy Carter on Tumblr More than a month after Beyonce and Jay-Z welcomed their first child to the world, pictures of the newborn, Blue Ivy Carter, have emerged. A Tumblr blog titled "HelloBlueIvyCarter" popped up on Friday night, displaying five photos of the baby. Blue Ivy was born sometime on Jan. 7. The text on the new Tumblr blog reads, […]Brian Anthony Hernandez
- Revealed: Google Wallet Security Flaw on Android Phones [VIDEO]Don’t give up your wallet and plastic cards just yet — at least, not until Google Wallet gets a security update. The Android-only service, which lets you pay with your smartphone, turns out to have a major security flaw. If someone gets hold of your phone, they can effectively hit the reset button on Google Wallet — and get themselves sent a new PIN number. […]Kate Freeman
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- Groupon: From 'Wildly Profitable' to 'Learning How to Communicate'At a time when both Wall Street and the public may be down on Groupon, the company has hired a 20-year agency vet to handle its PR efforts....(author unknown)
