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GMT – Three news stories and a poor PR show

October 31, 2011

Joined up government is a mantra politicians from all sides love to trot out. But in government communications, it is a very rare sight. Take the clocks going back this weekend. A nice ‘news hook’ to get some positive PR about what the government is doing to help prepare for winter? Or a chance for […]

Proud of Grey Pride

October 28, 2011

PR is a funny old industry. You spend hours, days, weeks, months (in many cases years) working on campaigns, striving to reach targets or work towards a big announcement. And when that moment comes and a campaign hits a milestone, it’s all to easy to fail to properly reflect on all the work that has […]

The advance from PR’s core

October 26, 2011

Evidence from the PR Week / PRCA PR Census demonstrates that the industry is continuing its drift away from traditional and specialist PR services and more towards general marketing disciplines. This is demonstrated by my mapping of the areas respondents to the Census claim will increase in importance over the next two years against what […]

The thin line between love and hate

October 17, 2011

The Andrew Werritty / Liam Fox affair has re-ignited the debate over the power and influence of ‘lobbyists’. But, as with so much in the world of politics and communications, the distinction between right and wrong is difficult to pin down. Malign power of men who peddle influence Screamed the Daily Mail’s Andrew Pierce in […]

Why the radio silence?

October 14, 2011

My Ramblings were starting to build up a head of steam, mixing my professional, social and political views – even getting an ad campaign taken down… But for those wondering what happened (I’m amazed people continued to visit the blog despite no new content), the picture below sums it up (I’m at the back somewhere)! […]