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• Cross with Chrysler

  With all the excitement coming out of San Francisco and Las Vegas this week, it's easy to overlook the good ol' Dee-troit Motor Show . It's been a relatively exciting affair, too. And from the level of publicity being generated by Chevrolet's planet-friendly Read More... Posted 11 January 2007 09:26 by James Barbour | 0 Comments Filed under: PR, Politics

• Lobbyists out of a job?

  The latest from Dave’s “Anything Labour can do, the Tories can do better” school of campaigning: Cutting out the middleman. We’re all aware of Bell Pottinger ’s red-faces-at-Party - Conference incident , in which their “ Meet a Minister for £5k ” offer Read More... Posted 11 December 2006 12:00 by James Barbour | 1 Comments Filed under: Public Affairs, PR, Politics Attachment(s): handshake.jpg

• Be Prepared

  It's difficult to pick a favourite Tom Lehrer song, but Be Prepared is definitely in my top five. It's not just a handy maxim for Boy Scouts, either - it's a fundamental principle which all those who call themselves communicators must espouse. Particularly Read More... Posted 08 December 2006 10:56 by James Barbour | 4 Comments Filed under: Tech, PR, Politics

• Our take on the Queen's Speech

  Public Affairs News this week includes H&K's collective insights into the legislative agenda set out in Tony Blair's final Queen's Speech . Having spent many, many hours collating, editing and finessing the content, I think I'm entitled to say that Read More... Posted 06 December 2006 16:47 by James Barbour | 0 Comments Filed under: Public Affairs, PR, Politics Attachment(s): H&K_queens_speech06.pdf

• Déjà blu?

  I'm not sure what the past participle of the French verb blogger would be - bloggé didn't feel right. But the title of this post seems fitting enough to describe Strumpette's repetition of a two-month-old story yesterday. Having said which, if you're Read More... Posted 27 November 2006 10:47 by James Barbour | 2 Comments Filed under: Social Media, Public Affairs, PR, Politics

• Online democracy, or astroturfing open season?

  Kudos to Tony and co for the launch this week of Number 10's online petitions website . Thanks to some clever coding from the people over at mySociety , you can now petition the PM online. The website's only been up for two days but is already proving Read More... Posted 16 November 2006 09:56 by James Barbour | 0 Comments Filed under: Tech, Social Media, Public Affairs, PR, Politics