So Hill and Knowlton (H&K) has taken the major step of restructuring the agency model arguing that it is a “natural response to client demands” but do we have a case of ‘change for change sake’ or will there be a shift in how agencies are configured? Are the separate practice areas for public [...]
So we’ve gathered that the PR industry has weathered the storm of the recession, with the figures produced a couple of weeks ago by Marketing Monitor. Just to reiterate the success of the PR industry, several of the PR top dogs have not only made it into the Sunday Times Rich List 2010, but [...]
Congratulations to Theresa O’Mullan who has joined Hanson Search as our new Executive PA/Office Manager. We look forward to working with her and wish her the best of luck in her new role with us. By Jenna Morton-Aiken
This week as you may have seen from my tweets, I have been at Internet World – one of the longest running annual events specific to Digital Marketing and Online Business. Over 12,000 visitors and 300 exhibitors were expected to attend in what I believe is Internet World’s 18th year, with several key industry specialists [...]
Who says that the Germans don’t get comedy? Not one to waste a golden PR opportunity, Lufthansa have taken advantage of Apple’s misfortune earlier in the week when one of their engineer’s left his highly prized iPhone 4G in a German beer garden causing massive embarrassment to senior bods! Lufthansa’s digital PR agency Profero [...]
The British government is advising against all but essential travel to Bangkok after violent clashes between riot police and anti-government protesters. But hundreds of British tourists are still stranded in the Thai capital, after their flights were cancelled due to the volcanic ash cloud. Many people cannot get back until May and are too [...]
A recent article was published in the Guardian by David Yelland (editor of the Sun from 1998 – 2003) about the link between politics and the media, more importantly the not so existent link between the lib dems and the media… We all know the newspapers and editors, early on in campaigns, ally themselves [...]
This week I attended the Guardian’s debate with the ‘environment ministers’… the formula was easy, three… hold on two…. passionate politicians with a real belief in the environment and Clarke, the token Tory… The debate was brilliant, a very knowledgeable audience, a range of questions which were for the most part properly answered and heated [...]
So the 2010 Q1 GDP figures are out, and they’re not great. Growth of 0.2% is weaker than the 0.4% expected, and even though growth in the last quarter of 2009 was up-rated today by 0.1% to 0.4%, the negative impact of the return of VAT to 17.5% and inflation hitting 3.4% on January [...]
In a rather embarrassing glitch, McAfee Antivirus software identified a normal Windows file as a virus, shutting down computer systems around the world. MSNBC.com reports the problem started 9am EST, and caused most notable in my home state Rhode Island’s 2 most prominent hospitals, causing major delays in surgery and emergency room services. An embarrassing [...]
