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Is is time to abandon lobbying and target voters directly?

By + on June 17, 2013 in Government, Politics, Public Affairs, social media

Today’s CITYA.M. carries an op-ed by communications consultant James Frayne. He argues that “It’s time for business to abandon lobbying and target voters directly”. The problem I’ve got with his argument is that actually that’s exactly what a lot of effective lobbying already does. When Oxfam was successfully campaigning for the global Arms Trade Treaty [...]

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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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UK spends 13 minutes of every hour on social

By + on April 25, 2013 in Infographic, Media, Research, social media, Social Networks

Even in 2013 you find sceptics who don’t appreciate how the internet and the social web is disrupting traditional media consumption. Experian Hitwise has just published research that shows in 2012 the UK spent 37 billion hours online, but as that is far too big a number to comprehend it has helpfully distilled it into [...]

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White House signs-up to six second Vine videos

By + on April 25, 2013 in Politics, social media, Video

Since the launch a lot of the initial hype about Twitter’s six second Vine videos has thankfully died down. The latest to use Vine is the White House which has used it for the first time to promote the annual White House Science Fair. I was a sceptic at launch and remain so, but am [...]

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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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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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UK Social Media Awards

By + on March 19, 2013 in Awards, CIPR, Crisis Communications, PRCA, Public Affairs, social media

Entries have just opened for the UK Social Media Awards 2013 which are now in their fourth year having previously been known as the Some Comms Awards. I’ve been a judge since the start and am pleased to say that I’m judging again this year alongside some great people including: PRCA chair Sally Costerton; Frank [...]

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