Archive for May, 2011

Conflicts of Interest – or are they?

Tuesday, May 31st, 2011

By Dianne Canham, founder and director of éclat Marketing
Every agency will have debated the subject of client conflict at some time and having just had one such discussion it’s top of mind so I thought I’d share my thoughts on [...]

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A week is a long time…

Thursday, May 26th, 2011

Kirsten Scott, Account Director
I was talking recently to a graduate, about what it is that we actually get up to in a typical week in an agency. It struck me that the saying usually attached to politics – that [...]

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Pot, Kettle, black

Tuesday, May 24th, 2011

By Dianne Canham, founder and director of éclat Marketing
Some of you will have noticed the ‘Pot, Kettle, Black’ hashtag on twitter by journalists accusing PR folks of hypocrisy in condemning Burson Marsteller for their actions in the recent alleged smear [...]

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PR Pulling Power

Monday, May 23rd, 2011

By Alicia Broadest, Account Executive
Following on from a blog previously posted by Kirsten Scott on ‘The makings of a team’ it was interesting to note how we all arrived in the world of PR. It would seem that we each [...]

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Is there really no such thing as bad publicity?

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

By Kim Smith, Account Manager
When I first started thinking about a career in PR just over three years ago one of the first ‘pearls of wisdom’ that people spouted at me when I told them about my chosen path [...]

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The makings of a team…

Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

Kirsten Scott, Account Director
Over a ‘team bonding’ lunch recently, conversation turned to ‘how we arrived in the world of PR’ and there was an interesting mix of responses. From ambitions to join the military, to stints in teaching, [...]

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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. Richard Feynman US educator & physicist (1918 – 1988)

Wednesday, May 11th, 2011

Peter Shackleton, Managing Director
Perhaps it’s my age, but I find the constant acceleration of technology development increasingly hard to keep up with. Perhaps worse, I sometimes wonder whether new technology is indicative of human progress or regression. If you have [...]

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