Category: Public Relations

  • Unspinning PR one dent at a time

    Nearly 150 people crowded into a private room at the Slug & Lettuce pub in London’s Soho last night for PR Unspun, an event organized by Chinwag Live. I was there as part of the panel which included Jacqui White,…

  • Keeping the conversation going

    If you followed the Stowe Boyd kerfuffle a few months ago – the one in which he says, broadly, that PR people don’t “get it” regarding social media – you’ll be interested in listening to Stowe talking to Eric Schwartzman…

  • The silence of the Blackberry

    The Blackberry outage that left North American users of the ubiquitous wireless handheld email device in the dark for much of Wednesday didn’t prevent plenty of people communicating. Communicating about the loss of service, that is, via blog posts, Twitter,…

  • PR unspun

    How is the PR industry adapting now that social media is heading for mainstream adoption? That’s a good introductory description to an event I’m speaking at in central London in the evening of Tuesday April 24. The event is ‘PR…

  • Imagining Coca-Cola in Second Life

    Yesterday, crayon client Coca-Cola launched Virtual Thirst, a competition to design a new generation of Coke vending machines. This is a competition with a big difference, though, as it’s about imagining a device that would dispense experiences, not metal cans or…