Category: Public Relations

  • From the “What were you thinking!” PR department

    A bit of a kerfuffle has erupted with US retailing giant Walmart at the heart of it, as The Guardian reports: Stephanie Harnett, a publicist working for Mercury Communications, which has been retained by Walmart to assist in its effort…

  • Stream (and buy) music while you do the grocery shopping

    If you do your grocery shopping in Tesco, you may already know that you can stay connected in the depths of the typical supermarket where no network signal usually reaches, thanks to Tesco’s own wifi network in most stores. Now,…

  • Spot the PR fake

    Is it Shell’s private Arctic launch party that goes wrong? This was a private send-off for Shell’s arctic rigs (Kulluk and Noble discoverer) at the Seattle Space Needle. The rigs were visible outside the window. Incredibly, there was an obvious…

  • Add your voice to the PR and Wikipedia conversation

    Here’s a plea to PR practitioners this Jubilee Bank Holiday Monday and Tuesday – give just 15 minutes of your time in contributing your thoughts to the online discussion about public relations and Wikipedia being spearheaded by the CIPR and…

  • Experiencing Ford’s 3D B-MAX hologram

    A few weeks ago, Ford launched an influencer outreach campaign in six European countries as part of a build-up to the European launch of its B-MAX car this summer. The car (a mini MPV) features pillar-less doors: there is no…