Category: Public Relations

  • The rich learning experience that is social media

    If you’ve been business blogging for some time, or involved in social media for business since 2005 or thereabouts, you probably know about Kryptonite. The case of the Kryptonite bike lock and how it could be cracked open with a…

  • Grasping the nettle of PR spam

    Spam: a scourge of contemporary life. I’m talking about the digital variety rather than the savoury meat product originating in a mists-of-time, analogue age. Just about the worst kind of spam I see is that which purports to be relevant…

  • A cancer-awareness campaign that’s in your face

    Do the images on this page offend you? If they do, I imagine it’s the use of the f-word that you find offensive. Or perhaps its the juxtaposition of that word with the word ‘cancer.’ Possibly it’s the logo’s garish…

  • A promising start for CIPR TV

    A new television channel started up today in London that offers the organization behind it an opportunity to reach out in a new and interesting way to people it wants to connect with, and viewers to gain access to information…

  • Discuss perspectives on CSR with ExxonMobil

    Can oil companies be socially responsible? asks Ken Cohen, vice president of public and government affairs at US oil giant ExxonMobil in a post on the company’s Perspectives blog. Cohen says his question is prompted by an article in Ethical…