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Wikipedia and PR have got to work it out

By + on January 4, 2012 in CIPR, Ethics, public relations, social media

Still in the midst of his highly successful campaign against News International UK MP Tom Watson has embarked on a second campaign – this time to sort out the relationship between the PR business and Wikipedia. On a Wikipedia talk page Tom says: ‘The general point that I think is more important for the site. [...]

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Bell Pottinger Uzbekistan: a maelstrom in a teacup?

By + on December 6, 2011 in Business, Ethics, Government, Journalism, Politics, Public Affairs, Reputation Management, social media

It seems a month can’t go by without Bell Pottinger, the UK’s self-styled ‘leading’ lobbying company, embroiling itself in a scandal. Today’s Independent article has certainly sparked off a plethora of criticism and commentary, much of it ill-informed and ill-conceived. It’s important to try and separate fact from fiction and cut through the spin on [...]

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Liam Fox and Adam Werritty put lobbying back on the agenda

By + on October 17, 2011 in CIPR, Ethics, Government, Politics, Public Affairs, social media

The Liam Fox and Adam Werritty saga has absolutely nothing to do with legitimate public affairs practice, but unfortunately it has served to put lobbying firmly back in the media and political spotlight. Today’s Guardian has an interesting article that analyses the coalition government’s meetings with external representatives in the first 10 months of coming [...]

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Hackgate: The Movie

By + on July 17, 2011 in Business, Ethics, Journalism, Politics, Video

News International – the movie trailer. #notw

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Rupert Murdoch sorry advert – apologises for NOTW and News International

By + on July 15, 2011 in Business, Ethics, Journalism

Interesting mix between using we and I: Rupert Murdoch ‘sorry’ ad

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Burson-Marsteller and Facebook isn’t just right or wrong

By + on May 16, 2011 in CIPR, Ethics, Journalism, Media, PRCA, public relations

I’ve hesitated to add to the plethora of informative, biased, ignorant, helpful and self-righteous blog posts that have been published on the ‘Burson-Marsteller paid by Facebook to smear Google’ story. However, I do think there are still some relatively unexplored areas to discuss. The thrust of the arguments against Burson-Marsteller are that 1) It’s wrong [...]

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The intern debate: a self-perpetuating vicious circle of elitism

By + on February 25, 2011 in Business, Ethics, PRCA, public relations

In the last couple of weeks the debate about interns and work experience has continued to gain momentum. It’s something that I’ve always felt strongly about and it’s one reason why I worked for Andy Burnham during the Labour Party leadership election. Like me Andy came from a background that meant he was one of [...]

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OFT cracks down on social media malpractice

By + on December 14, 2010 in Ethics, Marketing, public relations, Word of Mouth

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has cracked down on a blogging company it found to be in breach of the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008. The OFT conducted a six month investigation into blogging network Handpicked Media which used people to blog, Twitter and comment on behalf of its clients without disclosing [...]

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