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Tom Foremski Thought Leaders event at the CIPR

By + on May 14, 2013 in CIPR, Conference Speaking, Content, corporate communications, Ethics, Journalism, Media, public relations, Reputation Management, SEO, social media

Last week I chaired a ‘Thought Leaders’ event at the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) in London where I interviewed Tom Foremski who became the first major journalist to quit mainstream media to make a living from blogging when he left the Financial Times to found Silicon Valley Watcher. The event did leave me [...]

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How PR can use Flipboard to create magazines

By + on May 14, 2013 in Content, corporate communications, Public Affairs, public relations, social media, Social Networks

Flipboard is one of the new generation of news readers that provide a slick app to let you subscribe to news and topics on media websites, blogs and other social media and social networks. The latest updates make it really easy to create your own magazine by curating interesting content that you find. There are [...]

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CIPR president election for 2014

By + on May 8, 2013 in CIPR, corporate communications, Public Affairs, public relations, social media

The election for the 2014 president of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) has sparked several fascinating debates on both public relations and the future and relevance of the CIPR. What is without question is that this time, in Dr Jon White and Stephen Waddington, we have two absolutely outstanding candidates for president. I [...]

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Ten years of blogging today

By + on April 23, 2013 in public relations, Self Promotion, social media, Social Networks

Today it is 10 years since my first blog post on April 23, 2003 when I became the first councillor in the UK start a blog. My PR blog followed shortly after and the first post was on July 8, 2003. I’d like to say I had amazing insight and realised then how important blogs [...]

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Philips infographic for first quarter financial results

By + on April 22, 2013 in Business, Content, corporate communications, Infographic, public relations

Infographics can be fantastic, awful or simply work. This example from Philips is the latter. It simply presents the quarter one earnings for Philips in an alternative format. It’s good to see a genuine corporate communications, rather than marketing communications example. At a time when infographics are being exploited by PR, marketing and digital people [...]

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Corporate communications and PR conference speaking summer 2013

By + on March 29, 2013 in CIPR, Conference Speaking, corporate communications, public relations, Reputation Management, Self Promotion, social media, Training

I’ve got a few new corporate communications, PR and social media speaking engagements coming up over the next few months. I’ll also shortly be announcing dates for a series of two day online PR and corporate communications strategy master classes to be held in London in early July, Mumbai (India) in late July and Houston [...]

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PR, Wikipedia and BP–a sorry tale

By + on March 28, 2013 in Business, CIPR, corporate communications, Crisis Communications, Government, Politics, Public Affairs, public relations, Reputation Management, social media

I spent yesterday at the European Parliament in Brussels running a training session for MEPs and their staff about Wikipedia and best practice. Most of what I said was based on the CIPR’s Wikipedia Best Practice guidelines that we produced last year in co-operation with Wikimedia and I had a small hand in helping to create. [...]

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Google Reader is a big loss to PR practice

By + on March 15, 2013 in Journalism, public relations, Technology

I’m trying and failing to make sense of the numerous blog posts and articles about the demise of Google Reader. For PR and journalism it was more than just another web service, it is actually a fundamentally important tool that vastly increases your ability to do your job well. Ironically I’ve hardly ever used the [...]

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Tom Foremski and Stuart Bruce speak at CIPR event and ask could corporate media win a Pulitzer?

By + on March 11, 2013 in CIPR, Content, corporate communications, Journalism, Media, public relations, social media

On Wednesday May 8 I’m looking forward to speaking at a special event with Tom Foremski looking at ‘Can corporate media support serious journalism?’ The session is at the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) head office and sponsored by content sharing technology provider PressPage which has posted a social media news release: Can ‘corporate [...]

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Digital communications top PR skills gap

By + on February 28, 2013 in corporate communications, public relations, social media, Training

New research shows that digital communications is the top skills gap amongst PR professionals. The research was conducted by PR Academy amongst its past and present students and 52% of respondents identified digital comms as the top skills gap, followed by strategic planning (46%) and measurement (44%). This isn’t surprising as the much bigger and [...]

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