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30th October 2009

When PR stunts go wrong

There have been some truly memorable PR stunts that will stick in the mind forever and that raised the awareness of a particular campaign or

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30th October 2009

Journo updates

Plenty of updates on the journo listing page here including John Walko retiring after countless years in the business and changes at the French technology

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29th October 2009

Spark to the imagination

A picture may paint a thousand words but what I enjoy are the images that spring to mind from snippets read in a newspaper, and

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29th October 2009

Saving their best till Sunday

On Tuesday, Claire and I went on a Wildfire field trip. With the wide-eyed wonder of the little PRs that we are, we spent the

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21st October 2009

Give me a break

I’ve recently returned from a month’s sabbatical, touring the South Devon and Cornwall coastline. Although I must confess that amongst all the cliff walks and

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19th October 2009

Too much data can be dangerous

“The great benefit of digital is that it is measurable”. This old adage (yes, time moves fast in the digital world!) is the reason online

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19th October 2009

Seven steps to effective social media measurement

At a Marketing Week conference I attended recently, one of the speakers asked the assembled crowd (all senior marketing people from some of the UK’s

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19th October 2009

Byte Night 2009

We survived! Earlier this month, the Wildfire Byte Night team (Debby, Dan and Danny) packed sleeping bags and longjohns to spend the night sleeping beneath

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19th October 2009

AVE – Almost Virtually Extinct… or at least I thought so

For those of you that don’t know, AVE stands for Advertising Value Equivalent. Something that sends shivers down the spine of any PR who was

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16th October 2009

Twitter shows off its artistic side…

TweetPhoto, the real-time photo sharing site and branch off from Twitter, today saw inky illustrator Johanna Basford use the photo sharing platform to create one

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16th October 2009

Come with me if you want to live!

I actually quite like the theory that the large hadron collider is being sabotaged by its own future, as nicely summarised by Dennis Overbye in

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15th October 2009

Street cred?

I felt the death knell for Facebook last week when I saw a small ad from Marks & Spencer suggesting that the public visited its

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