Sir Martin Sorrell, chief of advertising and PR group WPP, has been on the airwaves seemingly talking up his own brand of economic theory: Cut to spend. On the BBC earlier he appeared to urge governments around the world to start spending (including France) – an odd suggestion given current financial turmoil and current IMF […]
November 10, 2010
A tweet alerted me to an interesting discussion about government communications in the HR sector. While the National Minimum Wage (NMW) has been around for years, recent changes and continuing problems with enforcement means that communications both to employees and employers has been a role the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has fulfilled. You […]
September 30, 2010
The focus for my blogging for the next four weeks is my attempt to cut 40% in spending from my own budget – just as the government is trying to do to the nation’s finances. You can read about it on my cuts blog or on the accompanying BBC News Online piece.
September 22, 2010
After another PR Week appearance, I’m getting a bit worried that there is only negative news coming from the public sector public relations fraternity… That’s probably because despite some briefs still coming out, the news isn’t that great. In fact, my initial response to the report which showed that 47% of PR agencies with public […]
September 22, 2010
I was interested to see the anger on Panorama and in the media on the salaries of the government comms fat cats. PR Week covered the story and I obviously had my say there. But Paul Cardin‘s response made me think, he said: No sympathy whatsoever from this quarter. Don’t fight it and risk exposing yourselves. Just […]
July 12, 2010
Continuing my commentary on how the marketing industry is doing (yes I know I said I was going to stop doing this and stick to great work), the latest Bellwether Report is being spun in various directions by the competing factions within marketing. Perhaps bizarrely, PR Week come closest to just printing the findings, so […]
July 7, 2010
It’s been exactly two months since the last Rambling… and things are very different now. So it seems like a good time to look again at the threats and opportunities to the PR industry under the new government. As I warned in my last posts (and as the PRCA confirmed), the worst news for the […]
August 24, 2011
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