Category archive: Regulations and laws
Regulation of UK newspaper and magazine websites
Monday, August 20th, 2007 at 10:30 pm
The UK’s Press Complaints Commission applied its Code of Practice to the inappropriate use of user-generated video to support editorial on a member website.
Tags: PCC, press+complaints+commission, Public relations, regulation, Regulations and laws, Social media, video
Categories: Public relations, Regulations and laws, Social media
What does the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive mean for marketing and public relations?
Sunday, July 1st, 2007 at 6:51 pm
I’ve been wading through consultation papers on a new UK law that could affect marketing and public relations people by April 2008.
Tags: Advertising, Blogging, Branding, Direct marketing, Email marketing, Marketing, Public relations, Regulations and laws, Sales
Categories: Advertising, Blogging, Branding, Direct marketing, Email marketing, Marketing, Public relations, Regulations and laws, Sales
Delivering the New PR 2.0 in London
Thursday, May 31st, 2007 at 11:19 pm
Next Tuesday 5 June the Delivering the New PR 2.0 conference rolls into London and I’m going.
Tags: andy+wake, Blogging, delivering+the+new+PR+2.0, dont+panic, Events, Marketing, neville+hobson, Podcasting, Public relations, Public sector, Regulations and laws, Social media, stuart+bruce, tom+murphy, Video podcasting
Categories: Blogging, Events, Marketing, Podcasting, Public relations, Public sector, Regulations and laws, Social media, Video podcasting
Statistics, research and analysis round-up - w/e 4 May 2007
Saturday, May 5th, 2007 at 7:43 am
A round-up of statistics, analysis and research that I spotted this week.
Tags: -research-and-analysis, broadband, e-consultancy, EU, Regulations and laws, Search engine optimisation, search+engine+marketing, Social media, social+networks, statistics, Web strategy
Categories: Regulations and laws, Search engine optimisation, Social media, Statistics, research and analysis, Web strategy
Blogging for business
Thursday, April 19th, 2007 at 10:35 pm
Here’s the outline of my presentation on business blogging that I prepared for the MIPAA bloggers’ brunch.
Tags: Blogging, conference+presentation, Events, Marketing, mipaa, Public relations, public+relations, Regulations and laws, Social media, social+media
Categories: Blogging, Events, Marketing, Public relations, Regulations and laws, Social media
Direct mail, opt-in, opt-out and saving the environment
Monday, February 26th, 2007 at 7:00 am
The UK direct marketing industry is responsible for producing 550,000 tonnes of paper mailings each year. Is it time they started sending mailings to people who have actually asked for them?
Tags: Direct marketing, Email marketing, Regulations and laws
Categories: Direct marketing, Email marketing, Regulations and laws
CIPR social media guidelines agreed
Tuesday, February 13th, 2007 at 8:11 pm
Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) president Lionel Zetter reports a busy day of meetings last Wednesday in his latest blog post on PR Voice. He also confirms that the CIPR Council has agreed the new social media guidelines for members.
Tags: Blogging, chartered+institute+of+public+relations, CIPR, code+of+conduct, lionel+zetter, PR, Public relations, public+relations, Regulations and laws, social+media
Categories: Blogging, Public relations, Regulations and laws
Fake blogs to become illegal in UK
Friday, February 9th, 2007 at 8:55 pm
Niall Cook points out a story in this week’s UK PR Week magazine - about a piece of European law set to be enacted in the UK at the end of the year that will outlaw fake blogs and other dubious PR practices.
Tags: advertising+regulation, ASA, eu+law, EU+Unfair+Commercial+Practices+Directive, niall+cook, talkSPORT
Categories: Blogging, Marketing, Public relations, Regulations and laws, Social media
CIPR social media guidelines
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007 at 5:55 am
With the deadline for responses fast approaching there’s a trickle of PR bloggers responding to the social media consultation from the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR).
Tags: Blogging, chartered+institute+of+public+relations, CIPR, david+phillips, GREEN+communications, Podcasting, PR, professional+development, Public relations, public+relations, Regulations and laws, simon+collister, Social media, Video podcasting
Categories: Blogging, Podcasting, Public relations, Regulations and laws, Social media, Video podcasting
Keeping it legal with email marketing
Wednesday, January 10th, 2007 at 7:23 am
E-consultancy reports a piece of research by CDMS claiming that 31% of the UK’s top companies are failing to comply with EU directives on Privacy and Electronic Communications.
Tags: direct+marketing+association, dma, e-consultancy, email+marketing
Categories: Email marketing, Regulations and laws
New email and website rules for UK companies
Saturday, January 6th, 2007 at 7:35 am
UK marketers and businesses may not be aware of some new rules for UK companies using websites and email that were introduced on 1 January 2007.
Tags: companies+act, email+marketing, emails, uk, websites
Categories: Email marketing, Regulations and laws, Web development

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