Category: Trends

  • Who has responsibility for addressing PR spam?

    Since I last wrote about PR spam a few weeks ago, I’ve been keeping an eye on some of the email that’s ended up in the spam folders in Outlook. It’s a never-ending stream of spam, and it’s getting worse…

  • Survey to help explore future PR trends in Europe

    EUPRERA, the European Public Relations Education and Research Association, is conducting new research aimed at exploring future trends in public relations and communication management across Europe. The European Communications Monitor 2008 includes an online survey, what EUPRERA calls “the most…

  • Top 10 disruptive technologies according to Gartner

    Gartner, an IT industry analyst firm, has published a report on what its analysts see as the top ten disruptive technologies for 2008 to 2012: Multicore and hybrid processors Virtualisation and fabric computing Social networks and social software Cloud computing…

  • PR spam is mostly the result of being careless

    Like many in the PR and journalism blogosphere, I get PR pitches by email every day. Like many, too, I welcome pitches if they are relevant to my interests. If they are, the chances are good that I will talk…

  • No one in South Korea listens to podcasts

    One of the new business books I have in my to-read pile is Groundswell by Forrester Research analysts Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff. My copy came last week courtesy of McGraw-Hill UK who distribute the book in Europe and South…