After begging with Ben Matthews to be tagged (he eventually stooped to tagging me as ‘Jeddy H’ something only three people in my life call me!) in Ged Carroll’s meme regarding where his inspiration for blog posts comes from. Since then loads of people have been tagged and loads of people have given really interesting [...]
Following on from my recent post on whether a PR degree is worth it, the team at Wolfstar decided to try and settle the debate for once and for all. So please click HERE and answer a few questions so that we can help improve the standards of PR education and bridge the link between [...]
A very quick post because It’s late but I need to remove this beast from my ribcage. I often ask people why they don’t blog, or at least tweet, and the most frequent response is ‘what would I write about?’… Uuuurrrggghhhh!!! This is a conversation that mostly comes around when talking to new PRO’s or [...]
OK, I must state this first: I neither disapprove nor approve of public relations qualifications. I have worked with people with and without them and some great people and some bad – their qualifications are rarely a contributing factor to skill, and this is the point of the post… I didn’t study public relations at [...]
I have a theory that if I’m nice to people, eventually someone will be nice back. That’s not why I do it, I do it to balance out my inside-Karma because I’m cynical. But I love it when people are nice for the simple reason of being nice. This has happened twice today. TWICE. I [...]
So another weekend brings another Jed moment. This weekend I accompanied my father to see one of his favourite musicians, David Sanchez, in the big smoke. After a ridiculously busy week at work it was a nice opportunity to let of some steam and spend some ‘quality time’ with my dad. Everything was great. Train, [...]
I’m not really all about these sorts of things but I read an interview with James Corden today in The Guardian’s Weekend magazine and thought it was brilliant (if not a little bit obvious): “I’ve come to this theory that 90% of everything is shit. Whether it’s art, music, theatre it doesn’t really matter. What’s [...]
Are you… “Desirous to give a new orientation to my career, in an open and international environment, I permit myself to submit a spontaneous offer. Are you looking for someone dynamic and polyvalent, knowing to achieve the fixed objectives, on an international level, to fill a position with responsibilities“? – (Honestly, a direct quote from [...]