What makes a good health promotion campaign?

29Nov08

Over the years, public health promotion has pushed the boundaries. Smoking and alcohol-related campaigns have challenged and sometimes disturbed. 
Stuck behind a bus earlier this week, I faced another public health campaign – this time for cervical cancer, created by Camden PCT. However this campaign left me quite confused because all the photos were of men! As it [...]

Filed under: Uncategorized   |  2 Comments
Tags: alcohol, campaign, health promotion, smoking

The new industrial revolution

25Nov08

Jemima Kiss wrote on her Guardian blog that Andrew Keen, speaking at a recent conference, compared the industrial revolution to a new digital revolution. He suggests Linkedin, Facebook and MySpace networks are similar to new nations. However, he warns that we will need to push ourselves to find “the heart of this new world”.
Some would say [...]

Filed under: Uncategorized   |  1 Comment
Tags: Andrew Keen, Second Life, virtual networks

Blame it on the PR

24Nov08

The latest issue of PR week states that Haringey Council’s PR team knew about Baby P months ago. Apparently, they should have better prepared the council’s response and the comms chief shouldn’t have distracted himself with organising a CIPR conference.
Now, not being an insider I can only speculate on how prepared the team were and [...]

Filed under: Uncategorized   |  1 Comment
Tags: communications resource, consultants, Haringey Council, reputation

Is blogging dangerous?

15Nov08

I was interested to hear on the news yesterday that a Burmese blogger was jailed for 20 years for speaking out against what was happening there. The blogger had provided an invaluable insight into events in the country.
And this seems to be far from an unusual occurrence. In September a Moroccan was jailed for two years for [...]

Filed under: Uncategorized   |  3 Comments
Tags: blogging, Global Network iniative