Category: Business

  • In a crisis of reputation and trust, the personal touch is everything

    The horsemeat scandal in Europe continues at the centre stage of attention with more bad news appearing almost daily in lurid newspaper headlines like those above in some UK tabloids as more beef products contaminated with horsemeat are discovered in…

  • Enter the pop-up agency concept

    You’ve heard about the pop-up store: the retail outlet that appears one day – “popping up” – is there for a few days or perhaps weeks, often tied to an event of some kind, and then shuts down. The idea…

  • Sentiment analysis and the challenges of content overload

    Last week, Socialbakers came to town with the London stop on their Socialbakers World Tour. The social media analytics company invited me to the London event to hear from CEO Jan Rezab presenting analysis on brand behaviours on Facebook, including…

  • The key to podcasting is community

    Podcasting should be the PR consultant’s best friend, says Phil Szomszor in a good assessment of podcasts and their role in public relations. Or, rather, the role podcasts ought to have in PR. In his optimistic assessment, Szomszor cites the…

  • The habits of UK mobile Twitter users

    I use Twitter a great deal on a mobile device, not only when out and about but also in pastime situations such as tweeting comments about a movie or TV show I’m watching, or commenting about a brand in a…