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…
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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…
GMB, Asda and trade union blogs
I’ve argued before that blogs present a potentially powerful communications tool for trade unions. Blogs could provide a way for individual union members to explain their point of view directly to the public. Individual workers are nearly always at a…
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…
BlogCode to find bloggers like you
BlogCode is an interesting new project that lets you score a blog by 20-30 questions and using a growing database then helps you to find similar blogs according to the scores. I coded A PR Guru’s Musings yesterday and I’ve…
New PR blog from Sunderland conference
Just in time for Wednesday’s New PR conference it’s time to say hello to Simon Collister who has just started his Simonsays blog as a result of attending last November’s Making the News conference at the University of Sunderland. Incidentally…
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.