Category: Public Relations

  • End of the road looms for SpinVox

    Things seem to be going from bad to worse for SpinVox. The voice-to-text transcription company has been at the centre of a major kerfuffle in recent months regarding the genuineness of its claims about its technology and how it performs…

  • Gearing up for Twestival Local

    In hundreds of towns and cities around the world, Twestival Local will take place today, tomorrow and Saturday. […] While Twestival Global put the spotlight around one cause on a single day, Twestival Local is getting back to its roots…

  • Is ‘social business’ the new black?

    What does “social business” mean? I’ve been wondering this since reading about the acquisition of Headshift by US agency Dachis Group announced this morning UK time. Among the flowery prose in the press release is this phrase that strikes me…

  • Absence makes the heart grow fonder

    I haven’t seen or heard much about the Climate Camp environmental get-together that’s been taking place in south London since last week. Spotting this tweet from the Metropolitan Police over the weekend saying that their mobile police station is closed…

  • PR Boo #3

    Three great items this week: Dave Fleet’s advice for entry-level PR professionals (which I reckon applies to every-level PR professionals); Shel Holtz and firing up StopBlocking.org; and Dave Jones’ report on his colleague Niall Cook updating Hill & Knowlton’s social…