Awards nominations aplenty for Peppermint

Thursday, September 16th, 2010

I won’t lie.  Despite our best laid plans, the award entries were a bloody nightmare to get off in the post.  The whole hoopla culminated in our lovely office manager, Rachel, having a meltdown moment in Hale post office and being comforted by total strangers.  Anyway, all merrily forgotten today ...

Facebook owes us

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

Facebook is officially the most used website in the world. 500 million of us are logging on and it costs us absolutely zilch. There's been press coverage aplenty promising that we'll never have to pay to use the site. That's nothing new, but what if I told you that Facebook ...

Welcome to London, world capital of reputation laundering. Really?

Friday, August 6th, 2010

Sometimes you read a news story and just can’t get it out of your head. I’ve been mulling over the Rwanda PR piece since I read it earlier this week.    The whole article was bringing into question the ethics of London PR firms promoting, and I quote, ‘foreign regimes with some ...

Not bad for a 71-year-old…a social media campaign from Old Spice that got it so very right!

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

Old Spice − a good Christmas present for granddad and a logo resembling the Blue Peter ship. These were the first thoughts that sprung to mind which is hardly surprising considering it’s a 71-year-old brand.  How very wrong I was… Something rather exciting was going on in the Twittersphere last night. ...

Interesting conflict or conflict of interest?

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010

Well, well, well. The election battle continues with Sky News’ Adam Boulton becoming the latest person to publically engage in a round of fisty cuffs.  The YouTube video of Boulton venting his frustrations towards Alistair Campbell has already racked up a whopping 207,000 views. The editor was clearly allowing his own ...