Archive for January, 2009

My first job in PR was part of the community relations team at a well known private/public transport organisation. Community relations was an integral part of the CSR agenda and was very much needed as a way to engage with a rather active local community.
At the time, our work revolved around holding events and producing [...]


Many organisations are trying to use new and social media as a way to engage more with their potential customers, some more successfully than others.
This week it was reported that a Facebook campaign by Burger King, encouraging members to ditch ten friends in return of a free whopper, went against Facebook privacy rules as the dumping [...]


With the current credit crunch crisis we are all looking for ways to save money. In the public sector, we always need to demonstrate value for money and our shoe-string budgets don’t allow for us to develop our PR tools in the same way a private company can. So ‘free’ is word we love, although it [...]