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29th September 2016

So, what exactly is it that you do for a living?

As a current member of the PRCA Council, I meet with fellow PR and communications professionals to discuss the issues we face, debate how to

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Louise Palmer
26th September 2016

PR: The data and the drama

In the early 1900s, Sigmund Freud’s nephew Edward Bernays defined PR as the ‘practice of social science’, with PR professionals having ‘competences like that of

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Paula Fifield
26th September 2016

Wildfire labs: Experiment 1 — proving the value of PR

Does PR work? Granted, it’s a fairly fundamental question, but measuring the impact of PR is creating a lot of head scratching at the moment.

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Ben Smith
26th September 2016

PR and the science of personality

Digital communication has made PR increasingly measureable and focused on business impact, but true client satisfaction is rare without the underpinning of a strong client-agency

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Debby Penton
26th September 2016

Wildfire labs: It’s alive!

Say hello to Wildfire labs! It’s a … wait, what is it? Here at Wildfire Towers we’ve been pondering the ‘science’ of PR. The PR

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Alex Warren
23rd September 2016

Autonomous brands

This week I attended IFS, a regular semiconductor forecast seminar run by Malcolm Penn who has spent 50 years in the chip business! We learned

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Andrew Shephard
22nd September 2016

Are fitness trackers making us fatter?

A two-year study carried out by the University of Pittsburgh suggests that fitness trackers are actually making us fatter. The research was carried out among

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Rachel Nulty
19th September 2016

Three lessons PR pros can take away from #FutureFest16

This weekend I took a trip down to Tobacco Dock for FutureFest 2016, the annual exhibition of forward-looking technology, art and design from Nesta, the

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Alex Warren
19th September 2016

Content curation: separating wheat from chaff in the content abyss

Whether it’s blogs, guides, whitepapers, videos or the many other different forms, the world’s collective PR and marketing machine produces huge amounts of content on

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Chris King
9th September 2016

Driven to collaboration: Startupbootcamp talks corporate innovation in 2016

As I discussed in my recent blog Disrupt or be Disrupted, large corporates in all sectors increasingly need to be investing in innovation and becoming

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Debby Penton
8th September 2016

You know what really grinds my gears? Apple ditching the 3.5mm jack…

I’ll be honest, I hated it when every phone used to have a proprietary headphone connector back in the early 2000s. When phones such as

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Alex Perryman
8th September 2016

Lochaber no more, Sutherland no more, iPod no more 

I’m a technology advocate but I’m also a late adopter and for me the removal of the analogue output from the next iPhone signals the

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Andrew Shephard