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Techies Teach Teachers A Lesson
Talkback Very inspiring and important, so how does this related to the ludicrous Workforce Boredom Index, that the TDA’s press office and PR agency (Band and Brown) have been spruiking to the media? The Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA) is...
[August 2, 2006, 12:51]
Finalists For 2008 CNET Tech Awards Revealed
News Rural Payments Agency (RPA) — Implementing Ultra Thin-Client Technology at the Rural Payments Agency The panel of judges has narrowed down the entries to come up with a shortlist of finalists in 15 categories, including best products, projects...
[August 18, 2008, 16:35]
The Perils Of PR - An Ongoing Saga
Blog It would be grossly unfair to name the PR agency which just sent out an email press release to 90 recipients - and CC'd us all, instead of BCCing. It would then be really quite staggeringly unfeeling of me to immediately do a Reply To All...
[June 26, 2007, 18:36]
'Massive' Identity Theft Ring Uncovered
Talkback I have built an ID Theft prevention business in partnership with a growing UK online marketing company and London based PR agency, which will move people from a 'high risk' to a 'low risk' category.The core product is a website, which a user can...
[February 13, 2006, 10:57]
A Blur Between Applications & Content… Really?
Blog Comment Hey, I ‘really’ wanted to try and be nice to Citrix as I had an OK event with them a couple of years back at their user conference in Scotland (note to PR agency - make sure I get the US invite next time please) despite the fact that the Edinburgh...
[May 28, 2008, 14:19]
Jajah, EBay And The Telepathic PR
Blog With the echoes of this year's eBay-centric PayPal/Google Checkout debacle still ringing in my ears, I decided to give eBay's PR agency a call to see if Jajah's allegations were true. (Be sure to read this post down to the bottom, because you all...
[October 5, 2007, 13:26]
Microsoft Prepares For "postive Outcome" In DoJ Case
News Microsoft's UK PR agency, Text 100, says it is preparing for a "postive outcome" in Microsoft's battle with the DoJ in the US. These remedies are little more than wishful thinking, and amount to no more than a PR stunt designed to shift attention...
[March 9, 1999, 8:58]
Update: CallNet Being Wound Up As Creditors Form Queue
News A former spokesman for the company says "CallNet is being wound up by Mulberry [its former PR agency] because no assurances had been given that our bills would be paid. A former darling of the free Internet access model, CallNet, has had its phone...
[September 14, 2000, 9:55]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Some bright-eyed PR from the agency obviously had one Advocaat too many at the Christmas bash and came up with the idea of a press release which started thus: Our heroic PR asks in passing: Thursday 16/12/2004
[December 17, 2004, 18:05]
Search Engine Marketing: In-house Or Outsource?
Blog Comment I can't help feeling SEO/PPC/Online PR and even Banner activity tend to fit better within an agency environment (would hasten to add a good agency - for reasons both you and I have mentioned - eg, key members leaving team, economies of scale etc...
[July 16, 2007, 17:11]
Search Engine Marketing: In-house Or Outsource?
Blog Comment I can't help feeling SEO/PPC/Online PR and even Banner activity tend to fit better within an agency environment (would hasten to add a good agency - for reasons both you and I have mentioned - eg, key members leaving team, economies of scale etc...
[July 16, 2007, 11:37]
A Walk Along The Inbox
Blog Clueless agency (4) PR messages o' joy: 51 It's not so much that it takes that long to plough through fifty messages, it's the sheer mental misery of having to decode the blasted PR speak and break down the haul into the following subcategories...
[June 12, 2007, 16:44]
Fast WLANs To Get Outing At Fashion Show
News Intel is being allowed to do this, even though 802.11a is not licensed for use in Europe, by the European Telecommunications Standards Agency (ETSI). The UK Radiocommunications Agency is able to issue temporary licences for 802.11a WLANs, as long...
[December 18, 2001, 16:18]
CNET Networks UK Award Winner: Johnson King
News Agency Johnson King won the Technology PR Campaign of the Year at the 2008 CNET Networks UK Business Technology Awards for its work for Sophos to raise awareness about the security dangers of social networking.
[September 24, 2008, 7:36]
My 2004 Wishlist For Microsoft
Talkback They have hire some truth telling PR agency insted of truth bending PR. you can expect some good gifts from M$ . Server admins are bugged with browser / media player security issues . The first priory for M$ shuld be, to get devided itself into OS...
[December 19, 2003, 17:12]
Thursday
Blog A photo agency had been called in to snap the head banana of BT Retail, Pierre Danon whose name, as I've said before, I can never hear without the sensation of a female voice cooing "Ooooooh, Dannon! Anyway, the snappers from the agency called up...
[May 9, 2003, 12:37]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog These guys could have saved all that 'Rich Internet Application' development money and a whole slew of intensive client/agency meetings by just writing a cheque for $30 to the nearest Internet registrar and asking for www.wearewretchednewbies.com...
[September 30, 2005, 19:15]
Microsoft Blasts Oracle's Secret Probe
News The years-long war of rhetoric between the software industry's leading rivals ratcheted up another rung late Tuesday after Oracle admitted it had hired a detective agency to investigate Microsoft's allies.
[June 28, 2000, 7:51]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Talking of which, a freelance friend accepted a job writing some promotional puffery for one such agency. So he asked the agency. said the agency contact, brightly. Friday 16/1/2004Friday morning post: the usual PR bumf, an incomprehensible pension...
[January 16, 2004, 16:15]
Lucent Caught Out By Melissa
News Both Microsoft and its PR agency Text 100 have suffered problems as a result of the virus. Lucent Technologies UK, one of the world's leading telecommunications companies, lost all email communication Monday as the Melissa virus claimed another...
[March 31, 1999, 16:02]
