Suffragette Emily Wilding Davison’s last great campaign
Emily Wilding Davison was a suffragette who died almost a hundred years ago when she fell under King George V’s horse at the Derby. 8 June will mark the anniversary of ...
Traditional Media
In search of answers to Brand Vandalism
After working on Brand Vandalism for almost six-months the first draft is done. Now starts the tedious process of editing and rewrites before Steve Earl and I hand over the ...
Review: BERG Cloud Little Printer
This is a first look at the Little Printer from BERG Cloud. Mine landed this week. The tiny 85mm square printer hooks up to the Internet and prints out personalised ...
Guest post: Rebooting media law – Law Commission
Howard Walker, a frequent commentator on my blog, argues that education is the key to addressing breaches of media law in social media. A recent Law Commission consultation paper is seeking comment ...
Spin alive and well; Savile case shows need for greater transparency
Proponents of the social web, myself included, like to think the networked society is a brave new world where transparency is the only option for organisational communication. It simply isn’t ...
In defence of public relations. Again.
Ian Burrell writing in The Independent this week has called out the growth of the public relations industry as bad for journalism. Burrell says that the balance of power in ...
In defence of public relations
Roy Greenslade fired a shot at the public relations industry yesterday, claiming that its growth combined with the decline of journalism was an affront to democracy. Greenslade is Professor of ...
Brand Anarchy: the Slideshare deck
In reviewing the social marketing activity around the launch of Brand Anarchy I realised that we’d missed an opportunity in not creating a Slideshare summary of the book. A presentation that ...
Lissted review: modernising media relations using Twitter
It’s a truism of our modern media that news breaks on Twitter. Realwire, a media intelligence firm based in Lincoln and Newcastle, UK has developed a tool to enable public ...
Betteridge and questionable headlines
Be warned. If a headline poses a question the answer will almost always be no. That’s not my rule. It’s an observation that was first made by a tech hack ...
