All Posts Tagged Tag: ‘issues management’
Wolfstar Consultancy CEO Stuart Bruce speaks at PR in oil, gas and mining conference
Wolfstar Consultancy CEO Stuart Bruce is one of the speakers at Communicate magazine’s Reputation in Oil, Gas and Mining conference. The reputation of the oil, gas and mining sectors has been hit hard of late. From the high-profile crises of Deepwater Horizon and the Chilean miners to the background noise of NGOs voicing environmental and [...]
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Quora: what brands need to know
Quora is a social question and answer service that connects quite nicely with Twitter and Facebook. Its primary purpose is to pull in large networks of people to answer questions posed by other people, and it’s constructed in such a way that guides people to give answers to questions in areas they have considerable experience [...]
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Twitter spam: how to stop it
Twitter spam has hit a lot of really high profile people and brands over the last few days (The Guardian, Harriet Harman, the UK Press Complaints Commission, Ed Milliband, first direct to name but a few…) and as we’re all frequent Twitter users at Wolfstar we thought we’d tell you how to stop Twitter spam. [...]
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PR Week ethics feature: is it ever right for PRs to lie on behalf of a client or employer?
Today’s PR Week has an interesting feature on ‘Professional ethics: Should you promote these products?’ Several well known PR bosses give their opinions on the types of industries that they’d be willing to represent. The ethics debate also asks that old question about whether PR professionals should ever be willing to lie on behalf of [...]
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The comment debate: Turning comments off
Today an article on Mashable predicted that the ongoing debate about “comment etiquette” on blogs will become much more heated in the near future – I’ve said it before on my personal blog, but I find the social media community highly critical of anyone who defies convention. Mashable’s Stan Schroeder reports that popular site Engadget [...]
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Social media and online PR report 2009 – UK
The econsultancy Social Media and Online PR report 2009 is based on a survey of more than 1,100 respondents (47% working in consultancy or agency, 41% in-house marketing, PR and communications people). While its an interesting report that gives some insight into the state of social media and online PR in the UK I believe [...]
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Helping communities with social communities
Social networks don’t really alter too much whether they’re online or offline. A social network is just a collection of people that have some form of connection. The difference is that online networks are much more accessible to those not in that social group. Instead of peering out of your window and straining to hear [...]
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#welovetheNHS takes over Twitter
If you’ve any doubts as to the power of Twitter to seize the public imagination then yesterday’s #welovetheNHS episode should put it to rest. Yesterday, Twitter was ablaze with thousands of tweets using the #welovetheNHS hash tag (a way that Twitter users can link together an issue to it’s possible to search for and see [...]
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