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Archive | April, 2006

IE7 rocks!

By Stuart Bruce on April 28, 2006 in Technology

As a tech-savvy PR blogger I’ve tried to like Firefox, I really have, but apart from its tabbed browsing I didn’t like it. Internet Explorer 7 on the other hand rocks. It is fantastic and does nearly everything I want…

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AccMan Pro – Dennis Howlett on innovation for professional accountants ? Easyjet blog for small business

By Stuart Bruce on April 28, 2006 in Uncategorized

Dennis Howlett has an interesting post about why Easyjet (or indeed the other low-cost airlines such as Jet2) should have a blog for small business. He’s right.

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BBC Online 2.0

By Stuart Bruce on April 26, 2006 in Media

The BBC is continuing to be at the forefront of the internet with this announcement about BBC Online 2.0. Technorati : BBC, Web 2.0 Del.icio.us : BBC, Web 2.0

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Blogging bobby on the beat

By Stuart Bruce on April 20, 2006 in Government, Public Sector, Yorkshire

West Yorkshire Police is leading the way when it comes to using the web. First they launched www.beatcrime.info so you could punch in your postcode and see crime figures for your community. Then they launched the Neighbourhood Police Teams website…

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Journalists – the real spin doctors?

By Stuart Bruce on April 12, 2006 in Politics, public relations

Trevor Cook’s post about journalists being the real spinners requires no comment just agreement.

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Christina Odone should learn to tell the truth

By Stuart Bruce on April 10, 2006 in public relations

PR 101. Always read the whole publication before responding. As soon as I had finished reading ‘Press and PR partnership – networking or not working’ and Anne Summer’s letter on the same subject I broke off eating my lunch to…

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The truth about PR and journalism

By Stuart Bruce on April 10, 2006 in Business, CIPR, public relations

COPY OF LETTER TO MEDIA GUARDIAN Anne Summers (Media Letters, April 10) will be pleased to know that PR can claim moral equality with journalism as the Chartered Institute of Public Relations’ code of conduct has the same regard to…

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Forthcoming engagements

By Stuart Bruce on April 10, 2006 in Business, CIPR, Government, Leeds, Marketing, Podcast, public relations, Public Sector, Reputation Management, Self Promotion, Technology, Yorkshire

Over the next couple of months I’m attending and speaking about blogs, blogging, reputation management, corporate communications and public relations at a number of events: April 13, Leeds – Government News Network / Trinity & All Saints College – Postgraduate…

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BBC Breakfast biz journo creates a blog on live TV

By Stuart Bruce on April 5, 2006 in Uncategorized

BBC Breakfast TV business presenter Declan Curry has just created a new business blog live on TV to show how easy it is. Shame they used Blogger for the demo and gave lots of plugs to Google – what other…