Category: Public Relations

  • No engagement marks the digital battle lines

    So London’s Metropolitan Police is now on Twitter. Not for reasons you might think, though. No reaching out to engage with the public at large. Not to connect with Londoners to talk about issues of common interest that might be…

  • PR Boo #2

    This week, an open invitation to discuss link licensing, blanket pitching or ‘spray and pray’ mass email, and listening to The Doers. Listen! Links to the blog posts I talked about: NLA furore continues (and an invitation to breakfast) –…

  • What’s the value of your attention?

    Paul McCrudden has an interesting idea about how you spend your time and the monetary value it may have. In a great example of leveraging the attention economy, the London-based entrepreneur kept track of how he spent his time during…

  • Apple’s corporate omerta and share price growth

    At lunchtime, I was reading “Steve Jobs: The man who polished Apple,” a most excellent feature about Steve Jobs and Apple written by Times journalist Bryan Appleyard and published in the Times Online (and probably in the newspaper itself as…

  • Add your voice to the illegal file-sharing debate

    News today that the government is pledging to combat internet piracy in the UK with a series of new measures, including £50,000 fines for those found guilty of illegal file-sharing. The Guardian says that the move is being pushed through…