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The importance of being earnest (and not maverick)

Oh, the importance of getting your message right and not letting loose any spokespeople that haven’t been media trained! While watching BBC Breakfast this morning, I saw a great example of this.

Thursday, November 11th, 2010

Running for the hills

The Government’s spending cuts, on top of several tough years for the UK economy, might have PR people throwing in the towel and running for the hills! Surely what we do will be the first thing to be cut as even the public sector is forced to tighten its belt?

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010

Carolyn Wojtas, Head of Marketing, Phoenix IT

Sarah is a great support and works just like she’s one of our team. She gets on with the job quickly, which minimises the time I have to dedicate to public relations and lets me think about the bigger picture. I know I can trust Sarah to get on with the PR and her friendly […]

Tuesday, October 19th, 2010

PR vital to Government during public sector cuts

I’m glad to see that, despite tough economic times, the Government sees public relations as being vital to the cause.

Thursday, October 14th, 2010

Can hacks hack it?

An interesting article appeared in PR Week recently looking at how an increasing number of journalists are moving over to the ‘dark side’ of public relations.

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010

Times Online focuses on quality

The Times recently published the results of what has happened to its website since it became paid for. PR Week reports that traffic to the website has dropped by just under one third.

Thursday, September 23rd, 2010

Not everything is PRable

Last night I was ‘made’ to watch episode two of Top Gear. Alastair Campbell was the ‘star in the reasonably priced car’, so at that point in the programme I looked up from my magazine. A lot of the audience booed him. Love or hate the man (and I don’t really have an opinion either […]

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

Authentic PR

I was very pleased to see that the world’s biggest consumer goods group is planning to step up its public relations. In a PR Week article Proctor and Gamble’s global marketing and brand building officer, Marc Pritchard referred to PR as “one of the most authentic ways to engage with consumers”. Thank you Mr Pritchard, I […]

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

Don’t panic Mr Mainwaring

Just back from Sunny Spain, which is why I haven’t blogged for a while – I didn’t want sand in my laptop! Now that the batteries are re-charged, I have just picked up last week’s PR Week. An interesting article about 78 per cent of FTSE100 firms’ websites not having basic social media functions such […]

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

Is ‘old’ media dead media?

An interesting conversation has been going on within a LinkedIn group that I belong to, the Network of PR Professionals http://tinyurl.com/24stshc

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010