Jed Hallam

Archive for October, 2008

How to blow just enough smoke…

I’ve had a chat this afternoon with Chris, Sam and Natalie and everyone had a different opinion about blogging or talking in the online sphere about our clients or company. Where are we supposed to draw the line when it comes to client/company promotion? Is it cool for me to say; ‘wow, I love ****, [...]

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The Perfect Public Relations Personality Type

This is something I’ve been wanting to blog about for a while now and after reading Matthew Watson’s post on the increasing range of skills that PR professionals are to display (I’m also going to keep the post to about 498 words!), talking to people who operate in different segments of communications and reading up [...]

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Friday’s Three for three meme!

I thought I’d start a fun meme considering that I’ve either been missed out or I’ve missed the previous PR-specific few! So this will be my first meme – and it’s going to be fun. It must be fun. Three for Three will consist of three top three selections then passed on to three people [...]

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The thrill of the chase!

In a return to true form I’m about to make a terrible analogy about something that we all love and hate in equal measure… Talking to journalists. This has been extensively blogged about in the past, and I’ve mentioned it before in my post on relationships with people but as I made the long trek [...]

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Simple Rules to Simple Banking

Ok, from my meagre understanding of the banking crisis I’ve devised a simple explanation; If you give your money to anyone (friend, bank, broker) you’re investing it in them, set against your trust. You trust the friend/bank/broker to return the money to you when you require it. If they promise to give you a bit [...]

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Public Relations in a Recession

(I’ve been meaning to write something on this for a while after commenting on a post by Wendy McAuliffe over at Liberate Media and I’ve just been informed that David Brain has beaten me to it for today’s PR in a Recession post… Note to self: must get quicker!) Ok, so it’s too late now, [...]

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