If you’d like an opportunity to interview Tony Blair then now’s your chance as Microsoft sets up a live Prime Minister’s Question Time via MSN Messenger. The PMQ will be a live video chat on Tuesday April 4 when 10…
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PR and politics have lots in common
Public relations and politics have a lot in common. Not least is the fact that both PR practitioners and politicians are frequently criticised by people who know very little about the subject but think they are expert commentators. The reason…
Yorkshire Forward podcasts
Yorkshire Forward has unveiled its new podcasts which “give visitors to the web site the chance to listen to audio files containing the highlights of our major regional events”. Eight different audio files at the moment including The instructions are…
Flogging a dead horse
I always read Stuart Jones’ BusinessMatters blog so I’m not sure how I missed this post about the tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians which says that “When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy…
Milliband to become first blogging cabinet minister
The Sunday Times is reporting that David Milliband (who was orginally from Leeds) is to become the first blogging cabinet minister. It’s a typical tacky Sunday Times story with more spin than a fairground ride. They lead on the rather…
Marketing Leeds fiasco gets worse
On my Stuart’s Soapbox blog I’ve just written a rather lengthy post about the shambles that is Marketing Leeds. I won’t repeat it all here but for anyone with an interesting in marketing, ethics or new media it is probably…
Ex-Labour general secretary Matt Carter resurfaces
Congratulations to Matt Carter, the previous general secretary of the Labour Party who has become the managing director of the new London office of WPP-owned opinion researcher Penn, Schoen and Berland. PR Week quotes Matt as saying that PSB intends…
Asda Wal-Mart, Tim Allan, Portland PR and the GMB
PR Week’s diary column carried an interesting snippet that I think deserves far greater attention. It reports that Portland PR, the firm set-up by ex-Downing Street aide Tim Allan, has been engaged in some appalling activity. On behalf of its…
Europe needs access to free map data to compete
Very interesting post by David Tebbutt about a crucial difference between the UK/Europe and the USA. It’s all about how in America you can “freely use zip codes to pick up geographic coordinates from a number of free sources”. David…
Four things meme
Stephen Davies has tagged me with the four things meme so here goes: Four jobs I’ve had: Organic waste disposal technician (toilet cleaner) Labour Party Regional Officer Politician (elected councillor) PR consultant Four movies I can watch over and over:…
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Public relations isn’t part of marketing
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How PR can use Flipboard to create magazines
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PR ethics – European Association of Communication Directors’ debate
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PR, Wikipedia and BP–a sorry tale
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EE customer service eventually comes up trumps
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Tom Foremski Thought Leaders event at the CIPR
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How PR can use Flipboard to create magazines
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Celebrate Europe Day today
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CIPR president election for 2014
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UNICEF reminds people Facebook Likes don’t save lives
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Julio Romo: Stuart, a great piece. Indeed Flipboard feature of...
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Steve MacDonald: Facebook can actually create awareness to what is ...
Stuart Bruce
Award-winning international communications trainer and consultant specialising in online PR, digital corporate communications,digital public affairs and social media. Frequent international media commentator and conference speaker.