Simon Wakeman - marketing, public relations and digital communications

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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Categories: Blogging, Public relations, Regulations and laws

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).

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Categories: Blogging, Podcasting, Public relations, Regulations and laws, Social media, Video podcasting

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