Category Archives: Public Relations
Just Four Little Words….
Dearest blog snorkellers, you must be thinking this is your lucky fortnight. After months without word, I regale you with not one, but two, whole posts. You’ll recall my last was all a tad gloaty, pangs of vindication panging through … Continue reading
Filed under Public Relations, Social Media
PR – Image Problem? What Image Problem? (Part 2)
Came across this blog post. Authored by one Steve Riches, food and drink editor of The People. Which is a bit like being culture editor of New Philistine magazine. Actually, it IS culture editor of New Philistine magazine. Mind, you, … Continue reading
Public Relations – Image Problem? What Image Problem?
(Heaves sigh of despair.) Right, dearest blog trotters, and especially those of you who labour, as I do, in this vale of tears we affectionately call ‘spin’, here – I am afraid – we go again. Just before I get … Continue reading
Filed under Communications Strategy, Public Relations
Made-Up Jobs In Communications – Chief Content Officer
Once upon a time, there was a chap called Nicholas Graham, who (in 1985) started a company called Joe Boxer, which sold (and still sells) underwear. Nicholas Graham syled himself ’Chief Underpants Officer’. I have often wondered whether I should … Continue reading
Reinventing Online Shopping With ‘Social Commerce’
Thanks to The Globe and Mail (Toronto) for this article published yesterday, entitled ‘Retail Giant’s @Walmartlabs plans to reinvent shopping with ‘social commerce’. You can read it by doing the light clicktastic on this word here. Working in retail in … Continue reading
Filed under advertising, Marketing, Public Relations, Social Media
Lies, Damn’ Lies and Social Media Statistics
Another day, another hefty dollop of horseshit about how the social media conversation is changing, irrevocably, life as we know it. (While I’m here, big up to Danny Rogers, the ‘editor’ of PR Week, for this phrase ‘Increasingly one hears … Continue reading
Corporate Communications – Trends for 2011
It has been a mighty long time, blog trotters mine, a mighty long time. I’d like to say that it’s because I’ve been doing something incredibly exciting, dangerous and isolated for the last however many months it has been since … Continue reading
Chips and Beans
Chips and beans – staple foodstuffs – the very foundation of a robust and balanced diet. Every day, three times a day, if I had a choice. (Sorry, dearest blog trotters, I find myself a little lacking in the breakfast … Continue reading
God Loves Facebook
Proof, if any were needed, that the world is no longer a suitable place for right-thinking people like you and me, blog snorkellers mine, in light of the fact that it has gone completely and utterly hatstand. Here’s some numbers for you. … Continue reading
Social Media In The Workplace – Medieval Thinking
Morning snorkellers. Yesterday, you may recall, I stuck up a much-viewed and widely-discussed (I am almost certain that it probably was) post – Social Media In The Workplace – The Debate Rageth On – in which I set out my … Continue reading
