Showing posts with label bad practice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bad practice. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 16, 2011

A letter to my MP over the Court of Appeal’s NLA's decision

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Dear Mr Buckland. The British economy does not need more restrictions on its most successful sectors. The internet is  delivering £100 bil...
Monday, July 11, 2011

iPad activism and the investing institutions

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So much of the chatter about the end of The News of the World has been about reputation. A lot of it centres on reputation as a commodity...
Tuesday, April 12, 2011

In defence of Aves

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Having been involved with PR evaluation for over 20 years, I have been watching a number of recent debates about the use of statistical anal...
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Friday, April 02, 2010

Colin Farrington bid farewell

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I understand that the Director General of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations, Colin Farrington left his post at the end of March. ...
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Thursday, November 19, 2009

The Practitioners' Rough Deal

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An excellent post by Stephen Waddington, prompted me to to resond to some of the comments it evoked. The original post is here and I have ...
Friday, May 15, 2009

The Ethics of AVE’s

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There are elements of the publicity industries that use Advertising Value Equivalents described by the International Association for Measure...
Monday, March 16, 2009

Why 20th century marketing is dead

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If one of the worlds, leasing business publications was to be found to be selling editorial to the highest bidder it would be a scandal...ri...
Sunday, February 08, 2009

Did PR fail the banking industry? Arguably so says Edelman

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Richard Edelman was the principle guest in a wide-ranging one-hour For Immediate Release live discussion on BlogTalk Radio on 7 February o...
Monday, February 02, 2009

Freezing out CIPR slackers

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February 2nd 2009. Overnight the long forecast snow fell over London and the South East of England There was disruption to roads railways an...
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Sunday, December 21, 2008

Individual Social Responsibility - A Driver for PR

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In September I made it quite clear that I though that the banking crisis was above all a crisis for public relations. My thesis is now unde...
Thursday, September 18, 2008

PR - a Profession Tainted by the Financial Community

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I am incensed. Two blog posts have prompted me to respond in pretty harsh terms. One is to Tom Watson’s post in which he says “If you think...
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Wednesday, September 03, 2008

Who owns your life

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ReadWriteWeb covers a whole range of confidentially issues in its post this evening written by  Marshall Kirkpatrick .  The problems with G...
Thursday, April 17, 2008

The Clip Book

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Working part time in an agency gives an insight into how far they have regressed. In the 1980's and 90's I ran a PR consultancy. We ...
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Tuesday, December 11, 2007

PR people eschew £50bn

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Online spending is now expected to reach over £50bn for the whole year - beating predictions made by the IMRG earlier this year. Last year...
Tuesday, November 20, 2007

A web outage is a relationships issue

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Yesterday the www.tiny.com service was down. In a few hours there was a mass migration to a range of other comparable services. Tiny lost cu...
Thursday, July 19, 2007

If the BBC is 'getting it' - just wait for the PR firms to get it too

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The BBC stands accused of cheating an lying. Its reputation has been been tarnished by a sequence of revelations. Initially it was over a ph...
Monday, July 16, 2007

Let John Mackey be a lesson to us all.

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Hans Kullin notes that If you are in public relations, a worry might be that one of your company's employees gets caught in the act of ...
Monday, April 02, 2007

The ethics of the 'empty chair'

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Like many people, I watched Jeremy Paxman on the BBC Newsnight programme Michael White of the Guardian and "Guido Fawkes" a poli...
Monday, March 26, 2007

Could you believe that marketers are unethical?

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Between 12% and 15% of clicks through Yahoo! search marketing ads are identified as erroneous and discarded from advertiser bills, the comp...
Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Bang! Bang! Marketing

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I shudder at a Guardian article about modern day marketing. I Quote: "We got a group of 14 or 16 actors, who were all football fans, b...