When the world’s biggest marketing firm, Procter & Gamble, says it’s making a huge marketing move with a massive online presence, you really need to sit and up and pay close attention.
Silicon Valley venture capitalist David Hornick reports from a P&G presentation to the investment community last weekend that an explicit goal for 2010 [...]
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I’ll be in Dublin later this week, leading “New media for seasoned professionals,” a workshop for the Public Relations Institute of Ireland on social media and PR, on Thursday. This will be the third one I’ve done for the PRII during the past few years.
It’s always a great pleasure visiting Ireland. Over the years, [...]
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If Latin America is a business area of interest to you, a report by AdAge.com on marketing success stories in Latin America makes interesting reading.
The report outlines ten companies that have done well in 2009 – nine of them in Latin America and one in Spain – which illustrates good things are going on [...]
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FIR Live #17 Saturday January 23, 2010 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm UK
Is marketing part of PR? Or is it the other way around? Where does government relations fit?
While the structuring of communications functions in organizations may sound mundane, it’s a topic that actually inspires considerable passion [...]
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I bet that Conservative Party communication planners didn’t imagine that the result of the billboards of David Cameron plastering poster sites up and down the country this week (click the thumbnail for the full image) is the soft backlash that has taken place.
Just about the only comment you’ll find online is ridicule over the [...]
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If you’re in a regulated industry of some kind – financial services, for instance, or healthcare – how would you use a tool like a public blog as a means to engage with people you want to connect with, and that doesn’t cross any regulatory line?
One company that’s successfully addressing this is pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline [...]
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Last week, the US edition of PR Week published its annual Editors’ Choice lists including Editors’ Choice 2010: Who to watch (subscription login required), a look at individuals and PR firms the magazine’s editors predict “will make headlines in 2010.”
The five PR firms in the list of agencies to watch in 2010 begins with [...]
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There’s been quite a lot of buzz during the past week or so surrounding rumours that Apple will be launching a tablet device very soon, and the expectation that there’ll be an announcement by Apple on January 26. I wrote a post myself, too.
What’s behind all the buzz? How did it get started? Who [...]
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Winter certainly did arrive in many parts of the UK overnight on Thursday with thick snow blanketing much of the eastern and southern parts of England.
Friday December the 18th was a day of complete chaos on the roads, on the trains and in the air with motorways impassable – I have first-hand experience of [...]

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