Category: Europe

  • Look after your identity

    This week has been National Identity Fraud Prevention Week in the UK, a fact I wasn’t aware of before hearing about it from Josh Davidson at Fleishman Hillard, the PR agency behind the nationwide awareness drive designed to help UK…

  • More social media connections in Barcelona

    One European city I love to visit is Barcelona on the Mediterranean coast of Spain. That’s where I’ll be on Wednesday and Thursday this week, chairing and presenting at the 2nd Annual Digital Media Seminar “Effective Strategies in Marketing &…

  • Speaking up in September

    I’ve just updated the list of events I’m participating in during the rest of this year, mostly as a speaker. There were more than I thought! Here FYI is what I’m involved with on the immediate horizon, during September: Social…

  • ID cards: It’s all in the positioning

    Has the government finally got it right re the controversial identity card scheme for the UK? The Home Office is now talking less about counter-terrorism and more about easing travel in Europe, says eWeek Europe. […] in a rather downplayed…

  • Messages from unreal people

    This graph illustrates a point I’ve often wondered about email marketing – too many people who do it seem wholly without care about who they’re reaching out to. Now add ‘clueless’ to what you think of email marketers. According to…