Category: Public Relations

  • Nice concept, Phorm, pity about the execution

    An organization often in the news here in the UK is Phorm, the US-registered company behind some controversial experiments to measure people’s behaviours when they’re online through behavioural targeting. The latest move by Phorm in an escalating battle to win…

  • Political communication from the edge

    Yesterday’s budget announcement by Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling occupies the full attention of the mainstream media today. Not only the media: bloggers, tweeters and anyone online with an opinion is there, too, as people pore over the detail…

  • Twitter is for listening

    I make no apologies for another post about Twitter. If you’re fed up with Twitter posts, you don’t have to read this one – but I’m going to make a case for why you should. So keep reading. Don’t think…

  • On digital defects and other political gaps

    Of all the continuing reporting, commentary, op-eds and general opinion about the Damian McBride affair aka Smeargate that I’ve been reading, an opinion piece by PR Week editor Danny Rogers in today’s Guardian is pretty good. Rogers assesses the current…

  • A dose of pre-Budget propaganda

    I just spend a minute and a half watching Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling talking about the 2009 UK budget, the details of which he’ll be presenting to Parliament in a few days time, on April 22. What do…