Today’s Daily Telegraph has a story about the growth in the number and spend on what it calls ‘government spin’. Comment from Philip Young and Ian Green, but my favourite is from Simon Dickson. My take on it is that…
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New Statesman on blogs and business
New Statesman has a rather weak cover story on Bloggers for hire about the relationships between blogs, bloggers and business. tags: blogs, business, New+Statesman
Right-wing French political party wants its members to blog and podcast
Loic Le Meur reports that right-wing French political party UMP is encouraging its members to blog and podcast. It is offering free blogs to its members, and most importantly is also offering training. Loic reports that the move has attracted…
PR blogger suspended by Orange
Inigo Wilson, community affairs manager for mobile phone company Orange, has written a lengthy racist article on ConservativeHome, one of the UK’s top political blogs. The article which is meant to be a humorous ‘Lefty Lexicon’ includes such includes definitions…
UK national press adopts social media technology
The Bivings Report has published an interesting graph that shows the adoption of social media technologies by UK national newspapers (plus the Scottish Daily Record). The research was by BBC English Regions Community Producer Robin Hamman, who publishes the interesting…
Labour Party competition to blog conference
In the US the Democrats have been giving press accreditation to independent bloggers since 2004. Despite this report saying that UK parties “would consider it” I don’t think any of them actually have. I made the suggestion earlier this year…
New digital magazine for accountants
I wonder what my two favourite blogging accountants Stuart Jones and Dennis Howlett will make of the report in the UK Press Gazette that Accountancy Age is launching a digital magazine to engage young finance professionals. Incidentally UK Press Gazette…
Editorial Intelligence’s online reputation not looking good
It has just been pointed out to me that a Google search for Julia Hobsbawm Editorial Intelligence brings up my rather critical post as the third item. At least the first two are for the official Editorial Intelligence website because…
Spell check firm issues news release with spelling mistakes
We’re all guilty of typos. One thing that we insist on at BMA PR is that news releases (yes we still use them and probably always will) must be double checked by a second person before being sent out. It’s…
IT PRO is live
IT PRO is now live (since Tuesday evening I think, but I’ve been away). Editor Chris Green has his personal blog at www.chrisgreen.co.uk and he and many of the other writers also have official blogs at http://www.itpro.co.uk/blogs/. Lots of familiar…
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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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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.