Why Sports Stars Don’t Love Change

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 By Dominic Curran

When people find out I work in sponsorship I always get asked two things:

1. Do you have any decent tickets?

2. Do you have any decent gossip?

There was a time when I had plenty of the latter and little of the former. Unfortunately, these days my gossip is about as revealing as a Tiger…

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Blinkered Board Directors

Monday, February 22nd, 2010 By Matt Edwards

It’s Monday morning and it’s pouring with rain.  The perfect backdrop for the release of Transitions,…

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Measuring The Pr Sweet Spot

Thursday, February 18th, 2010 By Nadia Gabbie

18 years ago when I first started in PR, my clients had different benchmarks for measuring the success of a PR campaign. The most memorable one was Neil who, following the presentation of a successful year long campaign (for a major lager brand) said, “Come on then, let’s see if it passes the…

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Engine Expands Into The Us

Thursday, February 18th, 2010 By Olenka

LONDON: Engine, the UK’s largest and fastest-growing integrated communications company, today announced its expansion into the US market.

Partnering with Martin Puris and John Bernbach, it has signed an agreement to create Engine USA.

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Patients Like Them – Social Networking In Healthcare

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 By Lisa Shand

A few years ago, Jamie Heywood’s brother was diagnosed with ALS. A crippling and disabling disease with no known cure. He was 29. Jamie, however, describes this event, despite the fact his brother died three years ago, as a gift, and the reason for this is inspiring.

As a result of his…

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Communicating The Biggest Behaviour Change Of All

Thursday, February 11th, 2010 By Neil Morris

It’s probably the biggest challenge faced by mankind. And communications is the key. But somehow communications has yet to really step up to the plate to play its (critical) role in engaging people on climate change. 

Last week I went to hear Lord (Chris) Smith, Chair of the Environment Agency…

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Dual Use Of Tv And Internet

Thursday, February 4th, 2010 By Alison Wright

I often watch TV and use my laptop at the same time.  Recent data from Thinkbox tells us that 47% of adults combine the two activities at least once a day, and another 14% at least once a week, thus proving this is now mainstream behaviour rather than simply a desperate attempt to multi-task by the…

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Public By Default

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 By Tara Davanzati

In January Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, spoke in defence of the site’s new privacy changes. He announced that public sharing and not personal privacy is the new ‘social norm’.

Part of the debate questions why Zuckerberg decided to change anything at all; suggesting this was…

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