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Burger King is McDonalds in Twitter Hack 18 Feb 2013 | 11:52 pm
Hackers took control of the official Burger King Twitter account today and changed the name and profile picture to McDonalds. You can see the tweets here.
HMV Boss: How Do I Shut Down Twitter? 31 Jan 2013 | 08:16 pm
A departing communications staff member at HMV scored a social media first when he or she began live tweeting from what was described as a mass firing of 60 employees. Here are the tweets in full befo...
The Future Now at Insight Thirteen 22 Jan 2013 | 11:10 am
If you want to see into the near future you are unlikely to have a better chance than at the Insight Thirteen one-day seminar in Manchester this Friday (25th January). It”s a day of looking forward t...
The Future Now at Insight Thirteen 22 Jan 2013 | 01:44 am
If you want to see into the near future you are unlikely to have a better chance than at the Insight Thirteen one-day seminar in Manchester this Friday (25th January). It”s day of looking forward to ...
Big Ben on Drugs 6 Nov 2012 | 03:20 am
You discover some extraordinary things at conferences and the CIPR Social Media Conference at Microsoft’s UK HQ was no exception. Big Ben is a major influencer on the subject of drugs, apparently. Hat...
PR Must Stop Backing Max Clifford 1 Nov 2012 | 05:07 pm
The Chartered Institute of Public Relations announced that it was going to make its membership list public on the same day publicist Max Clifford took the lectern as keynote speaker at The CIPR's Nort...
Red Bull the Drink that’s a TV Channel 15 Oct 2012 | 10:47 am
When Felix Baumgartner leapt from his Zenith capsule 24 miles above the Earth's surface the audience for Red Bull's Stratos channel was 8 million.
Why Facebook Hasn’t Hit a Billion Users 5 Oct 2012 | 12:43 pm
Facebook almost certainly hasn't hit a billion users.
CIPR ‘Share This’ Tops PR Book Chart 12 Jul 2012 | 12:59 am
‘Share This’ has gone straight to number 1 in the Amazon PR books chart on pre-orders alone. The book is an initiative from the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) Social Media panel and ...
PR Industry gets Guidance on Wikipedia 27 Jun 2012 | 05:16 pm
The UK’s Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) has today published a guide advising PR professionals on how to approach Wikipedia. The primary principle is that PR people should not directly...
