PR Opinions

This is an old chestnut that comes up with enjoyable regularity. We are talking about the PR imposter… The sweaty, overweight, 30+ PR ‘professional’ posing as the “rad”, “cool” and “hip” student in an online forum. The slim 21 year old PR ‘professional’ sending e-mails posing as a concerned 65 year old. How long before [...]

News that a conference organizer in Ireland was hit with a ‘cease and desist’ by CMP Media over the usage of the term Web 2.0 in the title of an event they are running in Cork [Disclaimer: Microsoft are the event sponsor] is a good illustration of the danger of monikers. What have CMP done [...]

CORRECTED: This has already been widely covered but it made me laugh so hard I have to re-post it. A graduate called Guy Goma was waiting for a job interview in the reception of BBC Television centre in London. A producer called out the name of Guy Kewney, a well known IT journalist that they [...]

At the “Delivering the New PR” conference on Friday I met with Simon Merrick from Zest. He raised a really interesting question: are there currently any services that provide “real-time” blog translation. For example, if you have a client with a blog (I’m assuming it meets all the usual criteria!) and you have key audiences [...]

It was absolutely great to catch up with the crew at the London leg of the University of Sunderland’s “Delivering the New PR” series. The conference had over 150 delegates in the Marriot Regent’s Park Hotel and the feedback was very positive! As well as catching up with Neville, Elizabeth, Philip, Chris and Nicky and [...]

Before flying out to London for the New PR conference tomorrow morning, I attended the first All-Ireland corporate social responsibility event, which was jointly organized by BITC Ireland and BITC Northern Ireland. It was an interesting event with a strong turn out and provided a great opportunity to catch up with a lot of people [...]

I’m in full time parenting mode this weekend, so with my heir in bed, I’ve been doing a lot of blog catch up and it’s very very busy out there. I’m looking forward to next week and the third and last planned event in the University of Sunderland’s “New PR” series. It’s taking place in [...]

Some reading and listening for the weekend… As always For Immediate Release continues to be an informative and enjoyable PR podcast. The boys (Neville and Shel) are now on #134 (or is that 133? The latest Edeleman Earshot has been released (#5) Brian Oberkirch has released a podcast from a roundtable on PR 2.0 with [...]

I realize I’m coming to this quite late, but a friend of mine pointed me in the direction of HackOff earlier this week. [I notice BL Ochman had a post on it back in September last year.] HackOff is a fictional novel about the apparent suicide of the CEO of a start-up that goes public [...]

Gary Goldhammer is absolutely correct, his criticism of my last post is justified, I should have “slept on it” before pushing the publish button, so I send my apologies to Daniel. You can mark it down to fatigue, a knee jerk response to hyperbole. To make amends here’s a more balanced exploration of some of [...]