PR heaven and hell
This is probably a bit naughty and you may have heard it already but what the heck, it came through to me today and made me laugh… A PR Manager was knocked down, tragically, by a bus and was killed....
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Well, the Edelman corporate video makes it look terribly exciting: And itpr (note: all in lower case) also makes a convincing case: 7.30am Diving into the pool at 7.30am on a Monday morning clears my...
View ArticleHave you ever done a Ratner?
I just posted about ghost-blogging and looked up Gerald Ratner as a warning for all those agencies considering giving their clients blogs. Ratner became infamous in the UK when he described his own...
View ArticleAn Englishman, Scotsman, Irishman and Welshman get into a French car…
… and a Peugeot advertising exec says: Bugger. If the Rugby World Cup pans out according to form, none of those nations will progress to the semis. Perhaps Peugeot should have considered including a...
View ArticleI am Brendan Evans.
PR Disasters has taken a unique view of the recently-beknackered Ad Age Power150: applying its ranking to other league tables. Apparently PR Disasters would be Falkirk or Fulham. This blog would be...
View ArticleInfamy! Infamy! Hobson and Holtz…
… have got it in for me! Check out the latest FIR podcast. Yup, that’s me at the end. Your very own FG with its very own music. Many thanks to Neville and Shel for mentioning me in their podcast, and...
View ArticleOne and one makes three
What is an idea? It’s an interesting point of discussion. Sometimes you have to work at them, usually when you’ve got a problem and need to find a way around it. Other times they just pop into your...
View ArticleTwitter maintenance: the official and unofficial stories
So Twitter is ‘performing maintenance’. It’s still down at the time of writing. They’ve been very transparent and, so the reasoning goes, credible in their dealings, giving regular updates on their...
View ArticleI Am Nostradamus. Am I Nostradamus? I, Nostradamus, am.
Can I quote myself? Just this once? Please? I was just going through some housekeeping and read a post written nearly nine months ago in which I looked at how theories about the social media world...
View ArticleI get this a lot…
No valuable insights or deep analysis today. Just a cartoon that someone sent me. I can see that I’m going to use the phrase “I can’t get past the ridiculousness of it all” quite often from now on…...
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