I’m a massive advocate of e-democracy and have been putting my words into practice ever since being elected as a local councillor in 1999. First of all with a traditional website that included the ability to sign up to an…
Charles Arthur, The Guardian technology editor, has an excellent post on his blog about why you shouldn’t send attachments to journalists. I’ve commented on the blog and below I’ve pasted a copy of my response: It constantly amazes me how…
The Burning our Money blog has an interesting story about the Parliamentary Information Management System (PIMS). Another example of a government IT system not entirely going to plan. In my experience of the public sector it is usually a case…
Well done to Shakila Ahmed, PR and communications manager at Travelodge for getting this news release on to the front page of the Yorkshire Evening Post. Now just think of the possibilities if Wayne Munnelly was to start a blog…
Phillipe Borremans reports that the Japanese Olympic Committee is telling its athletes competing at the Turin Winter Olympic Games not to blog about it. It says that the Olympic Charter bans athletes’ journalist activities while the games are on and…
Google currently has my complaint about GNER’s new rip-off fares as its fourth item. Another good example of the potential influence of blogs. It’s already inspired five comments (four here and one on the YorkshireBizTalk blog where it is cross-posted).
My Statcounter logs reveal that my previous A PR Guru’s Musings blog has just been visited by Big Brother! I don’t think it was George Galloway looking for advice on how to re-brand himself as an MP after his brief…
Thanks to The World of Hi-tech PR for the news that Spin Bunny has bounced back into life – well sort of, with some posts in December and another on New Year’s dinner. Come on Spin Bunny dish the dirt!
PR Week has an interesting public sector case study on the Fatmanslim.com website. It was started by Nottingham GP Ian Campbell who devised a “waist-loss” programme for men – waist-loss instead of weight-loss because the risk of coronary heart disease…
Philip Young has announced that the results of the EuroBlog2006 survey will be published next Tuesday. He has blogged some of the highlights. I’d like to read the whole results paper before commenting properly but one of the findings that…
