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Mandelson reveals his original thoughts on Clause IV

By + on July 16, 2010 in Politics, public relations

I’ve just returned from a fascinating hour and a half breakfast with Peter Mandelson to talk about his new book The Third Man. From a professional point of view it was a great blogger relations initiative by publishers Harper Collins to invite a small number of ‘progressive’ (the words of their spokesperson) bloggers to a [...]

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How often the Labour leadership contenders are mentioned in Mandelson’s book

By + on July 15, 2010 in Politics

Haven’t had time to read Lord Mandelson’s weighty tome yet, but have had a quick glance in the index to tot up how many pages each of the Labour leadership contenders get mentioned on: Diane Abbott 0 – not a single reference to Dianne. Ed Balls 41 – yep Ed features pretty big. Andy Burnham [...]

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CIPR Social Summer – Social media isn’t new and PRs don’t need to be afraid

By + on July 9, 2010 in CIPR, corporate communications, public relations, social media

My presentation from last night’s Chartered Institute of Public Relations Social Summer series of guest conversations about social media and corporate communications: Social media isn't new, so PR people shouldn't be afraid View more presentations from stuartbruce. Next week’s is Iain Dodsworth of Tweetdeck fame.

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Stuart Bruce’s PR blog is seven years today

By + on July 8, 2010 in public relations

This PR blog is seven years old today. It was on July 8, 2003 that I first started my public relations blog. It wasn’t my first blog as I’d started one as a local councillor three months earlier on April 24, 2003. It’s therefore a very apt date for me to be speaking at the [...]

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