A pebble. I have increasingly become the target of press releases and media invitations, some sent using a system called Cision, whi...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I've just been working on slidesets for next week's series of workshops on how to write, edit and ...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The DysonGate scandal threatens to drive a massive wedge in our local media community. Heads will roll. Wo...

Image via Wikipedia Look, 'doing' social media does not consist of sending invitations to bloggers to attend media events.  Many blo...

Image by keira-anne ♥ via Flickr Well, I was having a nice quiet start to the day when I got a call from La Swann wanting to talk on air ab...

Image by Felipe Bachomo via Flickr I’ve talked quite a bit on the radio over the past few weeks about Internet libel. It’s an interesting a...

Image by http://www.prestonlee.com/archives/67 via CrunchBase Pal Carrington shared this post from Seth Godin 's blog. Just in case yo...

There was a wonderful little moment during my stint with Brandy Scott on the Business Breakfast last Thursday: we were talking about the US ...

Aren't blogs funny? It never rains but it pours. Some days you've got nothing at all to add to the world, some days things you want ...

I'm sorry, three posts in a day (even if two ARE very silly) is too much, but I just HAD to share this deliciously silly PR shot from th...

Being in Berlin and finding myself in the Reichstag (as one does), I took the opportunity to chat to my old friend Matthias Machnig, German ...

I first came across John Mason when we were organising a big event for Jordan Telecom a few years ago: a big conference with 1,000 guests, r...

This has been a funny week. One of my most enjoyable jobs this week was going shopping for a private jet. It's not often (I know you...

Maktoob Research, the research arm of Arabic portal Maktoob.com , has published a report citing that 74% of Etisalat customers are happy cam...

I was thinking about refusing to babble on about Salik, the Dubai congestion charge, any more simply because everyone's talking about it...

Having just spent a most pleasant and productive three days with our European colleagues at the annual uber-klatch, this year's was in V...

So this is a horrible picture of 'Geek in chief' Gianni Catalfamo (of course only horrible pictures can be taken of Gianni) from the...

Remember One Red Paperclip? The kid ( Kyle MacDonald ) that bartered a paperclip in a series of increasingly unlikely and jaw-dropping swaps...

My personal favourite public relations quote of the year so far comes from Andrew Lee Butters, posting a story on the Kurdish PKK on the mos...

Being a shy, retiring sort of chap I wasn't going to mention it, but Zeid and the chaps at MediaME threatened to burn down my house if I...