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I’ve just got back from a mad weekend at Camp Bestival. Bestival takes fancy dress very seriously, hosting what must be the world’s biggest fancy dress party for the last five years. Last year in the Isle of Wight, I witnessed a divinely surreal moment... Read More

It may just be serendipity but shortly after our customer advocacy team has completed their first project for Alliance & Leicester - their first client in the financial services sector - and have started discussions with a second (too early to share),... Read More

Hat tip to Puffbox that 10 Downing Street is soon to be releasing a new website, looks like a big improvement.You can read their post here but in short Wordpress basedMore videoStreamlined navigationno go live date as of yet  Tags: 10 Downing... Read More

A few people have posted about the pros and cons of excessive tweeting. Tom called it Twitter Tourettes. So if a 'tweet' captures a thought or comment, then surely a 'twitch' is a compulsive nervous tic expressed through Twitter.... Read More

Business week has an interesting article titled The 10 Commandments of Web Design. It lists these as Thou shalt not abuse Flash Thou shalt not hide content Thou shalt not clutter Thou shalt not overuse glassy reflections Thou shalt not name your... Read More

I often listen to the radio through the BBC's excellent iPlayer while working but the link in my browser was to the older version. Now that they seem to have stopped publishing all the shows to it I had to update the link, I didn't actually know there... Read More

I read it in Metro, so it must be true, it seems the latest casualty of the credit crunch is the mistress.   Apparently the City mistress, the ultimate affluent proof point, is one of the first luxuries to be jettisoned when tightening the personal... Read More

Steve Clayton offers a nice plug for the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, Digital WPC site. It is the second virtual launch experience we have delivered for client Microsoft, who are really beginning to understand how to execute... Read More

Was really pleased to see a story in PR Week recently which celebrated how three people who had joined their agencies as graduate trainees were, some years later, pretty much heading them up. In an industry where you’re made to feel complacent if you... Read More

A few comments recently on corporate blogs have confirmed my view that most corporates are still working to understand whether blogging fits into, or perhaps alongside, their communications activities. The Wall St Journal reports on the dire... Read More

I saw an ad recently for New Balance's Love/Hate advertising campagin and rather than me wanting to go and buy a pair, it normally doesn't take too much encoragement for me to buy a new pair of shoes, all I could think of was Marmite.There's a slight... Read More

Once again Reboot was very enjoyable but due to some hardware issues I wasn't able to get online, I think this may have made it more enjoyable it certainly meant I paid more attention to what people were saying.This year seemed to be the year of white... Read More

With all the controversy around Jay-Z's appearance at Glastonbury this year, I listened briefly to the news this morning to find out how he went down. The results - at least through the traditional channels - were disappointing. BBC sat on the fence... Read More

Trivial to some perhaps but I can't let it pass - whoever told Hillary and Barack to get it on together in Unity deserves a medal. Every story I have seen led with this angle. PRs (assuming it was a PR) get kicked left right and centre, especially in... Read More

A flurry of stories on the issues around managing social media participation for employers and, by default I guess, employees too: BL Ochman - Does Your Company Have a Social Media Participation Policy? News of the boys in blue and their special interest... Read More

It's in the data. I mentioned before some research work our client LG Electronics had undertaken investigating Europe's TV viewing habits ahead of the upcoming summer of sport. One data point caught my eye. UK citizens own the most TVs per household... Read More

At an industry do last night Lauren and I found ourselves being pitched to/on/at.  Being PR people, this is a rare and slightly surreal experience, this one made all the more marvelous by its ineptness...   Propping up the bar next to us... Read More

I wrote about the notion of Marketing Attacks last week. It got me thinking about marketing techniques the world could do without - which is slightly different to just plain bad marketing (doubtless a far more extensive list). I had to spend a couple... Read More

Virgin have launched what they're calling the Virgin Eye.Check it out here It shows which stories are being written about Virgin companies in a nice graphical manner. My favorite is when you have Beautify on and you see new stories arriving.The one thing... Read More

In a move that reflects the increasingly prickly debate over the role of social media in the workplace, Nasa has ordered the Phoenix Mars lander to cut back on its social media activities and ‘get on with some real work’. Since Phoenix landed in the... Read More

My journey into healthcare IT continues. Couple of things going on: Microsoft fills in some of the story surrounding HealthVault - Microsoft 30,000 personal healthcare records lost on stolen laptops - Telegraph US doctors slow to embrace electronic... Read More

Piece here on Mashable about the use of Twitter for marketing. Nothing remarkable in that, there's lots of marketing taking place on Twitter, a little by companies promoting themselves or looking for leads or insight, but far more by Twitterers selling... Read More

Put your ears to the ground. Hear that rumble, like the sound of galloping hooves rapidly approaching? That, my friends, is the sound of the system catching up. Here's a good example from the New York Times. LinkedIn, the 'social network for professionals',... Read More

I was a bit disappointed by this piece in the Independent - Measuring PR success by column inches is old hat – welcome to a new analysis. I get the Independent at home, so think its generally a sound read. Apparently the breaking news is that Advertising... Read More