The Public Relations Consultants Association and Meltwater, on behalf of the public relations industry, have been involved in a long-running dispute with the NLA (Newspaper Licensing Authority) and today the UK Court of Appeal issued the latest ruling in the long-running saga. It’s fair to say it is a mixed verdict. The court has ruled [...]
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Burson-Marsteller and Facebook isn’t just right or wrong
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 [...]
Churnalism.com exposes an ugly PR and media truth
Churnalism.com is a great new website by the Media Standards Trust. It is intended to help the public ‘distinguish between original journalism and churnalism’. Churnalism is a news article that is based on a news release that hasn’t had much real journalistic input added and much of it has been cut and pasted from the [...]
Media that I pay for
Ged Carroll blogged about media that he pays for and then Stephen Waddington followed, so I thought I’d add to what could become a meme and list my personal essentials: The Guardian – no matter how in to ‘online’ I am, nothing beats a physical newspaper. It’s so much more enjoyable and easier to read [...]
Vote Match from The Telegraph matches your views to party policies
The Telegraph has a great tool that enables you answer a quick quiz to assess your views on a wide range of different policies and then tells you how closely your views match those of the different political parties. It even enables you to embed it on your own website, which is what I’ve done [...]
A duck’s Christmas quacker video
My brother has adopted two ducks and despite not being quackers decided to let them in the joy of Christmas by opening their own present. This was after Duck Duck narrowly escaped a roasting after disappearing for five days just before Christmas as reported in the Whitehaven News – Christmas quacker: a lucky duck returns [...]
Top 10 word of 2009 is Twitter, then Obama, H1N1, stimulus, vampire, 2.0
According to research by the Global Language Monitor Twitter was the top word of 2009. The analysis was completed in November using a proprietary algorithm that tracks words and phrases in the media and on the internet (including blogs and social media). The words are tracked in relation to frequency, contextual usage and appearance in [...]
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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, Wikipedia and BP–a sorry tale
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Corporate communications videos need good stories and emotions
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CIPR president election for 2014
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Is is time to abandon lobbying and target voters directly?
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Welcome to the CIPR–together we are stronger than we are alone
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Lies, damned lies trade unions and lobbyists
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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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Julio Romo: Stuart, a great piece. Indeed Flipboard feature of...
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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.