Category: Europe

  • A nice little earner from mobile roaming

    Channel 4 broadcast a hard-hitting report on Monday by its Dispatches investigative reporting team on the UK mobile phone business. Allegations of sharp practices by mobile phone retailers (an outfit called Phones4U came under especially severe criticism), denial of responsibility…

  • Stockholm reflections

    One of my reflections on Disruptive Media, the conference in Stockholm last week in which I participated, is that being part of an event where everyone speaks a language that you don’t can present a few challenges. Luckily, this is…

  • IABC scholarship to attend NYC conference

    The 2008 IABC International Conference takes place on June 22-25 in New York City. Four days of learning and making connections at a professional development event that’s unrivalled anywhere else. If you’re an IABC member in Europe thinking about going…

  • Rebranding the French presidency

    French president Nicolas Sarkozy is in the UK on a state visit, the first by a French leader in over a decade. Watching the BBC News 24 live coverage this morning of his arrival at Windsor Castle for all the…

  • Expanding the scope of EuroBlog 2008

    The EuroBlog 2008 conference in Brussels, which ended on Saturday, brought together about 100 people from the worlds of PR academia and PR practice from across Europe and from the USA. The event was billed as "Social media and the…