Simon Wakeman - marketing, public relations and digital communications

Chewing the new PR fat once again

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007 at 9:34 pm

I spent yesterday up in London at a Delivering the New PR conference once again.

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Categories: Blogging, Events, Marketing, Online video, Podcasting, Public relations, RSS, Social media, Twitter, Video podcasting, Web strategy

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

Reviewing “Life’s a Pitch”

Friday, March 9th, 2007 at 7:50 am

I’ve been reading Life’s a Pitch, a new book by Stephen Bayley and Roger Mavity about how we can pitch more effectively every day of our lives.

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Categories: Business development, Marketing, Personal development, Public relations, Reviews

Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales and PR people

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007 at 7:35 am

Last week’s PR Week magazine (UK) features an article about Jimmy Wales, head honcho at Wikipedia, threatening to ban PR agencies and paid PR professionals from editing Wikipedia if they continue to edit entries about clients.

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Categories: Public relations, Social media

It’s a trust thing

Monday, January 22nd, 2007 at 8:48 pm

Edelman launched its eighth annual Trust Barometer this morning in London. The survey looks at how well trusted individuals and organisations are among 3,100 “opinion formers” across 18 countries.

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Categories: Blogging, Marketing, Public relations, Public sector, Social media, Statistics, research and analysis

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