Category Archives: PR

Brands in Trauma: Oscars 2022

I won’t chastise the Academy award winner for casting himself as the lead antagonist during a mediated performance by a peer, for I am reminded of Ekhardt Tolle’s concept of pain-body. That being said, I think it is important to remember that trauma is cyclical and Entertainment brands – individual and organisational, have a responsibility to manage their performances in the workplace, because when they don’t someone is assaulted.

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It’s time to re-think your approach to Social.

I spent a day with some of the brightest young minds in advertising last week. The similarities All were fabulous, capable, intelligent, hard-working ‘go-getters’. All were running some of the better social media campaigns in Australia. Some were from boutique agencies doing really cool stuff, others had evolved to freelancers, some were in-house marketers, while others were clinging lovingly to the structural

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Air New Zealand Marketing = One of the Best

Air NZ are fabulous at integrated marketing communications. The Bear Grylls safety brief is the latest example of how a company makes old information we’ve all heard a million times, fun, relevant and engaging. The Bear Essentials of Safety. Check out our latest safety video starring @beargrylls #AirNZBear youtube.com/watch?v=LnM7xu… via @flyairnz — Air New Zealand (@FlyAirNZ) February 26, 2013

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What is Media?

A commonly posed question, worthy of a universal and definitive answer. However, media is not always comprehensively or easily defined. Research would suggest that the context of definition, significantly impacts how the term media is defined. For instance, a public relations practitioner will group various mass and niche communications technologies and businesses into ‘target media channels’. Whereas an advertiser and

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PR & Web 2.0

Running through the electronic archive of my public corporate life at various stages it’s easy to overlook the successes and key lessons learnt. I recently found this while googling and giggled out loud. Yes, I google’d myself and no it’s not narcissistic (maybe a little), but it’s also Step #1 in proactive reputation management.   Not surprisingly, I recommend it to everyone

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Social Media: Hype or Communications Revolution?

No matter who I am speaking with, everyone wants to know about social media and how to best use it for their business. The most frightening thing for me is the inflexibility from business owners and senior management teams. Used to throwing money at marketing and sales activities, this group of learned corporates expect this new media channel to fit

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