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Skills 4 Work or Skills 4 Life?

by Guest July 22, 2010
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by Liane Clarke, Intern at Northern Lights PR
The final week of the Internship and as we prepare for our final presentations to Northern Rail, Hallmark, Bradford School of Management and Northern Lights, each of us is reflecting upon the internship and our experiences. From the beginning we have encountered a schedule filled with workshops and [...]

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Foursquare: check in and check out of Facebook?

by Carol Arthur May 23, 2010
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With Facebook receiving increased criticism for putting users’ privacy at risk, could new kid on the block Foursquare steal the social networking crown?
Foursquare allows friends to track each other when they are out and about and is predicted to be the next big thing in social networking.  It is already hugely popular in cities across [...]

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Blackberrys don’t communicate

by Victoria Tomlinson May 18, 2010
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One of David Cameron’s first moves as prime minister was to ban Blackberrys and mobile phones from Cabinet meetings
Luke McKinney in his Mobile Phone Blog says ‘The new ban should serve as an example to every office meeting in the country – you may think you’re just checking your mail, but every time you text [...]

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The Catholic Church – a lesson in (poor) crisis communications

by Victoria Tomlinson April 4, 2010
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The Guardian this weekend reports “The archbishop of Canterbury has said the Catholic church in Ireland has lost “all credibility” because of its poor handling of the scandal of paedophile priests.”
Two weeks ago the pope made an unprecedented move and issued a letter of apology to Irish Catholics.  No doubt he thought this would silence the [...]

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Inspiration from young people

by Victoria Tomlinson November 30, 2009
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The end of an inspiring day. The six interns arrived from London and have been blown away with all that Yorkshire has to offer.
The day started on a high with Helen Kettleborough, director of communications at Pace plc, leaders in digital TV technology. A real professional, Helen did a whistle stop tour through the breadth [...]

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Enthusiastic graduates coming to Yorkshire

by Victoria Tomlinson November 9, 2009
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Today I have been putting the finishing touches to a really exciting project.
When Heather McGregor came up to Yorkshire to speak at the northern CIPR conference recently, she mentioned an inspirational internship programme that her business is running.
Taylor Bennett is a headhunter for the communications industry.  Increasingly they are asked to find more diverse shortlists [...]

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In a recession you have to keep communicating

by Victoria Tomlinson November 5, 2009
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A number of clients have recently been mentioning variations on a theme. That in a recession you have to talk to your teams more than ever – even if there is nothing particularly new to say.
Stephen Martin, chief exec of Clugston, a leading construction company, took part in the Channel 4 programme, Undercover Boss earlier [...]

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Tony Blair

by Victoria Tomlinson November 1, 2009
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Scanning this morning’s papers, I see Tony Blair is believed to have been in discussions with Tesco to help them open offices in the Middle East.
I do feel Blair is seriously missing some wise counsel around him – or totally ignoring it.
Love him or hate him, he had built up a reasonably credible profile on [...]

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A number of clients are looking for directors of communications.

by Victoria Tomlinson October 1, 2009
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I’ve noticed a recurring theme with several clients recently.  A number are looking for directors of communications.
It struck me today that these are all very senior, strategic posts and each client sees these positions as absolutely critical to the success of their businesses.  They are going to great lengths to get the right person – [...]

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Renault decision is shocking example

by Victoria Tomlinson September 21, 2009
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Like many, I am really shocked at the news today that Renault is only to get a two-year suspended ban from Formula 1 for their role in fixing last year’s Singapore Grand Prix.
All sorts of issues flashed through my mind as I listened to the radio. Nelson Piquet could have been killed by purposely crashing [...]

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