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Full story: Kremlin PR headaches for Ketchum
President Putin’s right-hand man says that Russia is more than fit to host the G8 summit, The Times reports: The leading Kremlin spin-doctor [Vladislav Surkov] rebuffed Western critics yesterday with a robust defence of President Putin’s democratic credentials in the run-up to the G8 summit in St Petersburg. […] Mr Surkov’s sudden emergence into the spotlight […]
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Full story: Shaking the trees at Microsoft
Much talk in the past 24 hours over another key employee leaving Microsoft and going to Google. While most focus is on that, I found this commentary on Mini-Microsoft of more interest, discussing the broader effects in the Microsoft organization with its focus on restructuring and the impacts on employees: […] If my group was going […]
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Full story: Real-world opportunities in Second Life
Lest you think I’m addicted to the latest flavour of Kool-Aid with my recent commentaries about Second Life, this post isn’t to do with the fun times you can spend in world (see, I’m getting to know the lingo). This is about business opportunities with Second Life and the real world. One of the things that […]
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Full story: Talking about ethics and journalism
Heading off shortly to PriceWaterhouseCooper’s office in Amsterdam for the Future of Journalism / Ethics in Journalism panel session organized by the Club of Amsterdam. I’m speaking on that panel and participating in the open discussion. Imagine: a PR guy talking about ethics and journalism, alongside journalists, to an audience with lots of journalists. Could be […]