Category: Public Relations

  • Blogs drive business opportunities: UK survey

    A new survey on business blogging conducted in August by research firm Loudhouse – the results of which were presented at an event in London yesterday in which I participated – shows that blogs are rapidly becoming a credible tool…

  • On speaking and cricket

    Heading into central London early this afternoon to speak at an event organized by Inferno PR during which research firm Loudhouse will be announcing the results of new research about business blogs and blogging in the UK. Some very interesting…

  • Think of the users, Microsoft

    Last week, Microsoft released the third beta version of Windows Live Writer, its free software that lets you write and publish posts to your blog from your PC rather than having to log in to your blog. I use WLW…

  • A good pitch that counters the bad pitches

    Reading through The Bad Pitch Blog by Kevin Dugan and Richard Laerner really does bring home to you how appallingly bad some of our colleagues in the PR profession are in how they reach out to people to pitch their…

  • Playing the energy game

    One public affairs campaign that I’ve been paying attention to for the past year is willyoujoinus.com, the campaign sponsored by Chevron Oil that’s about drawing attention to energy conservation and climate change and which I first heard about in February…