Year: 2015

  • #PRstack: How to get better at digital PR

    #PRstack: How to get better at digital PR

    Last week, a new version of #PRstack, a publication whose content was created by more than 30 contributors, was published. It’s the second edition of a highly-acclaimed guide and resource that was first published in May 2015. It comprises a…

  • Add “to Volkswagen” to the business lexicon

    Add “to Volkswagen” to the business lexicon

    As the Volkswagen emissions-testing-fiddling scandal rolls on – and is getting much worse for the beleaguered German firm – speculation grows that other car makers are also gaming the system. If the testing methods used in countries around the world…

  • Facebook blogging could be great…

    Facebook blogging could be great…

    Facebook announced some updates to its Notes tool last week designed to make it appeal more to users of the social network than has been the case so far. Notes lets you write longer-form content exceeding the brevity a status update…

  • Google superlatives

    Google superlatives

    Opening my Chrome browser this morning presented a new Google doodle highlighting Google’s 17th birthday. Many happy returns, Google! Google is a company that seems to have been here for almost ever, not just seventeen years. It’s part of the…

  • Can a tarnished VW emerge successfully from #dieselgate?

    Can a tarnished VW emerge successfully from #dieselgate?

    The global #dieselgate crisis engulfing German car maker Volkswagen may well produce significant and disruptive change in the governance and regulation of the auto industry and publicly-listed companies in that industry (likelier in Germany than anywhere else, I’d say), although…