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CIPR Election: You made a difference, thank you

I’ve been named as the CIPR President for 2014. Jon White was a fearsome opponent. I have studied his work and benefited from his wisdom like so many students of ...

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Guest post: Time for public relations to get its mojo back – PRmoment’s founder Ben Smith

Ben Smith, founder of PRmoment, agreed to contribute this post speaking up for the public relations industry after he ran a recent event on the future of the profession. By ...

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Ketchum at 90: celebrating our future

We’re celebrating Ketchum’s 90th birthday today with almost 3,000 colleagues around the world in 130 locations. Here’s our boss Rob Flaherty telling the story of the agency’s first 90 years ...

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Road testing the new Google+ features

Google announced a slew of developments to its services at Google I/O, its annual developer conference in San Francisco last week, many of which related to Google+. The changes to Google+ are further ...

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CIPR Election: #vote4wadds

If you’ve voted for me in the CIPR election for President for 2014 thank-you. If you are still considering how to vote here’s a summary of the issues that I’m ...

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Attenzi: a social story about business

Attenzi, published today, is a book unlike any other about business. It’s a fictional story written for the Internet age, about a business leader, an organisation, and a market. Eli ...

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Guest post: Five reasons I fell in love with Google+

After I ran a Google+ workshop last week Steven Cole got in touch to share his experience of getting to grips with the platform and offered to write a guest blog ...

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How to guest blog

I welcome contributions from guest bloggers. It’s a great way to build a network. If you haven’t blogged before guest blogging is a good way to start. Some of the ...

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Speaking up for the public relations profession

It has become a sport for the public relations industry to chastise itself about reputation, modernisation and professional standards. I asked my network on Facebook last week what we did really ...

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Google+ for public relations

Here’s the slidedeck that I ran through at a CIPR North-East Google+ session in Newcastle this morning. During the session we explored how Google has changed its search algorithm over ...