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The Economist on blogs

By + on February 9, 2006 in Business, public relations, Reputation Management

This week’s edition of The Economist has an article on blogs. I’m nowhere near as impressed with this article as I was with its recent look at public relations. I think the problem is that it contains nothing that other…

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Blog Herald gets it wrong on spam

By + on February 7, 2006 in Business, Marketing, public relations, Reputation Management

I like The Blog Herald. I really, really do. But it has got it badly wrong this time. It’s claiming that an email sent by Eric Olsen at FeedBurner is spam. Why? Get real. Spam is the rubbish about unwanted…

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Become a rail blogger and win a free year of commuting

By + on February 6, 2006 in Business, public relations, Reputation Management

Passenger Focus, the independent national rail consumer watchdog, has come up with a brilliant use of blogs. It has teamed up with Metro, the free commuter newspaper, to run a competition for people to blog about their experience of commuting…

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Wireless networking in the developing world

By + on February 6, 2006 in Business, Government, Politics

Richard Allan, the former Liberal Democrat MP for Sheffield Hallam and now public affairs honcho for Cisco, points to this interesting reference about Wireless Networking in the Developing World.

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The Guardian’s Charles Arthur on why not to send PR attachments

By + on February 2, 2006 in Business, Marketing, public relations

Charles Arthur, The Guardian technology editor, has an excellent post on his blog about why you shouldn’t send attachments to journalists. I’ve commented on the blog and below I’ve pasted a copy of my response: It constantly amazes me how…

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Government Google doesn’t work

By + on February 1, 2006 in Business, Government, Leeds, Politics, public relations

The Burning our Money blog has an interesting story about the Parliamentary Information Management System (PIMS). Another example of a government IT system not entirely going to plan. In my experience of the public sector it is usually a case…

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Travelodge’s dream PR

By + on February 1, 2006 in Business, Leeds, Podcast, public relations, Reputation Management

Well done to Shakila Ahmed, PR and communications manager at Travelodge for getting this news release on to the front page of the Yorkshire Evening Post. Now just think of the possibilities if Wayne Munnelly was to start a blog…

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Has Visa’s Road to the Olympic Games blog hit a roadblock?

By + on February 1, 2006 in Business, Marketing, public relations, Reputation Management

Phillipe Borremans reports that the Japanese Olympic Committee is telling its athletes competing at the Turin Winter Olympic Games not to blog about it. It says that the Olympic Charter bans athletes’ journalist activities while the games are on and…

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Google GNER and this blog is 4th link

By + on January 23, 2006 in Business, Government, Leeds, Marketing, Politics, public relations, Reputation Management, Self Promotion, Yorkshire

Google currently has my complaint about GNER’s new rip-off fares as its fourth item. Another good example of the potential influence of blogs. It’s already inspired five comments (four here and one on the YorkshireBizTalk blog where it is cross-posted).

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Big Brother is watching A PR Guru’s Musings

By + on January 23, 2006 in Business, Politics, public relations, Reputation Management, Self Promotion

My Statcounter logs reveal that my previous A PR Guru’s Musings blog has just been visited by Big Brother! I don’t think it was George Galloway looking for advice on how to re-brand himself as an MP after his brief…

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