Category: Public Relations

  • EU cracks down on fake blogs

    In 2005, the European Union published a Directive on Unfair Commercial Practices that, among other things, outlines “sharp practices” which will be prohibited throughout the EU, such as pressure selling, misleading marketing and unfair advertising. The Directive is due to…

  • How to make Yahoo visible

    If you think of Yahoo, what springs to mind? Search engine? Portal? The owner of cool things like Flickr, Delicious and Konfabulator (as was)? Yahoo isn’t on my radar screen at all. The only time I think of Yahoo is…

  • Dell launches Dell Shares investor relations blog

    You’ll learn about this in the blogosphere first. Today, Dell launched Dell Shares, its new blog designed to do for its investor relations development what Direct2Dell has done for its customer relations – enable the people in Dell to directly…

  • Skypephone changes everything

    Skype, the internet phone service, is all about disruption. I remember thinking, when I first started using Skype back in 2004, that here’s a small, nimble company that will drive a massive wedge into traditional telephone service business models. From…

  • FMGY: Winners and losers

    The news last week of Microsoft’s purchase of a 1.6% equity stake in Facebook has had plenty of commentary with widespread analysis and opinion on the deal. I found the most interesting commentary in an article in this week’s Economist…