Home is where the heart is. Usually.

Last month, my family and I finally took the great leap into the 21st century and signed up for an unlimited home broadband contract. While the main difference has been an increased willingness to always use the HD option on iPlayer, it’s also meant that working from home is now near-identical to wo...

Curiosity Killed The Cat, But Gave Us Facebook…!

The news last week that Conservative minister, Oliver Letwin, had been discarding official documents in a park bin unsurprisingly led to huge public outrage in the press, on social networking sites and in office canteens all over the UK.

Ironically though, thousands of people have expressed and co...

PR, PR, PR Sweetie Darling…

In PR we are often accused of using ‘PR speak’. Basically, we apparently put a gloss on everything – person, place, product, etc. In essence no matter how bad that thing might be, to us, it’s bloody brilliant and the world needs to know.

This isn’t necessarily an accurate representation, but it’s...

Let’s do lunch

“Why a career in PR?” is a question that can draw some interesting responses. “Lunch” is a response I remember from one guy who I studied PR with at Bournemouth University. For him lunch is the most important meal of the day and PR professionals spend most of their time ‘doing lunch’.

Okay so lu...

Are we amidst a social media war?

It seems that Facebook has declared war on its rival competitors Twitter and Google + this week. Not only has it launched a ‘smart lists’ feature, making it easier for people to group their connections together in true Google+ ‘circles’ style, but it has also revealed a ‘subscribe’ button, so that...