I love reading these, but it’ll probably be a few years before I’m important enough to have my own in The Guardian’s Media Monday. So I thought I’d write one now and give you all an exclusive for the future… Newspapers Obviously my daily consumption of newspapers is pretty heavy because of monitoring and clipping, [...]
So, three days into my extended leave and I’m still not relaxed. I still check my email obsessively, I read every paper every morning and I’m still looking for ways into the editorial pockets – but that’s enough about that. This is the rebirth. I’m expecting my day of disconnection will probably fall in parallel [...]
It’s officially my last day in work, drinking my last coffee and writing my last ‘from work’ post. I feel quite odd (and incidentally, old). The last few days have been spent explaining what I actually do to make headlines and boost bottom lines and handing over current and potential leads to our MD so [...]
Before I began my job the phrase ‘In-house’ conjured up images of an antiquated old flack who was edging closer to retirement and this was a sentiment echoed in a conversation that I leapt into on twitter yesterday with Simon Collister, Dom Whitehurst, @stedavies, @bmcmichael and @lewiswebb. I think it’s generally thought that in-house PROs [...]
There has been a mass of blogging about bad pitching and scattering-gun approaches to press releases, primarily bought about by Wired’s Chris Anderson and the Gina Trapani issue, and now everyone appears to be at loggerheads about what the correct protocol is and why we build relationships at all. I thought I’d through my (albeit [...]
Over the last few months I’ve seen that ‘evaluation’ of the effectiveness of public relations has always been a sticky issue. I’m yet to stumble across a single method of effective measurement, but yet I face a constant battle to explain how effective my work can be for my company as a whole. Public relations [...]
So after spending hours trying to write an ‘About Me‘ section that didn’t seem pretentious, I resigned myself to writing the current one. It might change. If I find a method of exonerating Jed Hallam from the pretension pile, I’ll be the first to employ it. Maybe spending hours on it makes me narcissistic. I [...]