Why wearing a poppy could have negative PR impact for you

Why wearing a poppy could have negative PR impact for you

What? You shouldn't wear a poppy? There are good reasons why you need to stop and think... Read more...

High Flying Birds PR crashes and burns

High Flying Birds PR crashes and burns over reviewer ban

When a PR pro becomes the story something has gone wrong - learn how Noel Gallagher's got in a flap. Read more...

November 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Red or Black? ITV gambled and lost face

Red or Black? ITV gambled and lost face over convicted thug

ITV has been left red-faced over the Red or Black debacle that has awarded a convicted thug £1million Read more...

September 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Abercrombie & Fitch celebrity snub PR

Abercrombie & Fitch celebrity snub is clever Public Relations

Abercrombie & Fitch is more known for PR blunders than brilliance, but this changes with Jersey Shore. Read more...

August 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Great PR crisis lesson from bride-to-be

PR Crisis management lesson from email scorn bride-to-be

Heidi Withers has broken her silence to criticise her future mum-in-law, teaching us a PR crisis lesson! Read more...

July 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Why PR and social media skills are crucial

Why PR and social media skills are crucial to business growth

A survey by the FSB has discovered businesses are crying out for PR and Social Media help. Read more...

June 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Comic Mark Thomas & Crisis PR lesson

Comic Mark Thomas gives PR Crisis Management lesson

A poorly comedian has delivered a perfect lesson in PR crisis management with a simple statement. Read more...

April 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment

The Social Media Guys talk to the AOC

The Social Media Guys address the Association of Colleges

The Social Media Guys explore how can further education colleges better use social media. Read more...

March 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Yell remake JR Hartley advert

Yell remake classic JR Hartley advert, but no-one is listening

So Yell has remade the classic JR Hartley fly fishing advert for the smartphone generation. Read more...

February 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Facebook redundancy brag rightly cost job

Facebook cash brag rightly cost job says Berkshire HR expert

RBS employee Katie Furlong was sacked after bragging on Facebook about her redundancy. Read more...

December 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Berkshire HR expert explains new Equality Act

Berkshire HR expert explains the impact of new Equality Act

Berkshire HR expert Carolyn Wahlen of Gap HR explains the impact of the new Equality Act. Read more...

October 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Every little helps? App fails to deliver

Every little helps? Tesco Clubcard BlackBerry app doesnt!

Blackberry app for Tesco Clubcard fails to deliver the goods in local branch of the supermarket. Read more...

July 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Crisis PR - asking for forgiveness

How many junior civil servants does it take to upset the Pope?

Opening an abortion clinic? What were the Foreign Office thinking! They are not as crazy as you might think! Read more...

April 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Paperchase fail at crisis management PR

Plagiarism, Paperchase and the art of crisis mismanagement

Paperchase has given us an excellent illustration of crisis mismanagement in social media. Read more...

February 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment

H&M; Blunder in PR Crisis

H&M Fashion Faux Pas and the PR Crisis Blunder

Fashion giant H&M; fumbled its PR as it was condemned for slashing clothes that could have gone to the homeless. Read more...

January 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Vodafone sack marketer over funny Twitter

PR blunder as Vodafone sack marketer over funny Twitter

Vodafone has spectacularly over reacted and sacked a marketing guy over a funny Tweet on Twitter Read more...

December 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment

WWF reputation endangered over 9/11 video

WWF reputation endangered over shameful 9/11 video advert

Have you seen the crass WWF 9/11 video? Watch it here at learn about crisis management too! Read more...

September 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Feel the farce as Tesco win PR battle

Feel the farce as Tesco win the PR store wars over Jedi ban

The public relations response of Tesco to an offended Jedi Knight shows when humour can work. Read more...

September 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Beware: Facebook Adverts can damage you

Beware: Facebook Adverts may harm your online reputation

Facebook warning - look out for inappropriate adverts next to your Facebook profile. Read more...

July 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Silly Season means great public relations

Midsummer Madness means the Silly Season... and great PR

Midsummers Day means the start of the 'Silly Season' and open season on great PR Read more...

June 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Pom & circumstance wreck public relations

Pom & circumstance derail Adelaide public relations campaign

Just when it seemed Australia could do no wrong with its public relations, it has stumbled. Read more...

June 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Greedy pigs at the parliamentary trough

Public relations and the greedy pigs at the parliamentary trough

Greedy MPs have caused more harm to the reputation of pigs than Swine Flu. How can the PR nightmare end? Read more...

May 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Twitter Magistrate forced to quit

Disorder in court - Twitter magistrate wrong to resign

Professer Steve Molyneux has been forced to resign after Twittering about his role as a Magistrate... wrongly says Morgan PR Read more...

April 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Banned Phones4U Jesus advert great PR

Banned Phones4U Jesus ad was enlightened public relations

Advert used at Easter is resurrected after being banned by the ASA creating great public relations. Read more...

September 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Argos PR blunder over Facebook sacking

Argos PR blunder over workers Facebook grumble sacking

Argos has sacked a loyal worker for a grumbling about them on Facebook. What PR blunder eh? Read more...

August 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Morrisons: How to fail on Twitter

How to fail on Twitter: Morrisons and the online PR disaster

Morrisons is discovering Twitter can be a hostile place when your house is not in order. Read more...

August 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Why I'm boycotting the News of the World

Why Im boycotting the News of the World (for last decade)

There are calls to boycott the News of the World over phone hacking, but I already am! Find out why? Read more...

July 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Why Ryan Giggs should ditch sponsors fast!

Why troubled Ryan Giggs should ditch sponsors like Reebok

In the public relations crisis that is Ryan Giggs life he needs to display fancy footwork to save face. Read more...

June 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Mediocre Mum vs Ecademy - PR lessons

Crisis PR lessons from the Mediocre Mum & Ecademy uproar

PR lessons from the row between Mediocre Mum and Ecademy over a social media training course Read more...

March 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Chrysler sack social media consultancy

Chrysler Autos sack social media consultancy over F-tweet

An inadvertant F-word tweet turned into a fender bender as Chrysler sacked its social media supplier Read more...

March 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Knowsley Safari Park cruelty crisis

Knowsley Safari Park gets savaged in the social media jungle

Knowsley Safari Park is in crisis over cruelty claims and is blundering in the social media jungle. Read more...

January 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Lest we forget Abercrombie & Fitch blunder

Lest we forget how bad Abercrombie & Fitch is at Poppy PR

Abercrombie & Fitch subsidary Hollister banned staff from wearing a poppy! Cue Crisis PR Read more...

November 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Are too quick to judge online?

Does the internet mean we are too quick to judge?

Berkshire PR and Social Media Consultancy Morgan PR has been invited on the BBC World Service. Read more...

July 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Leak for Leek United Building Society

Embarrassing leak on Twitter for Leek United Building Society

Careless lips use to sink ships, but sloppy security on a train hits Leek United Building Society Read more...

May 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Fire up Photoshop... The election is coming

Fire up Photoshop... The election is coming to social media

Fire up Photoshop... The election is coming to social media. The lessons that need to be learned. Read more...

April 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Abercrombie & Fitch in PR blunder - again!

‘Good-looking’ job ad looks bad for Abercrombie & Fitch PR

Bad PR as Abercrombie & Fitch ask only 'cool and good-looking' people to apply for new jobs Read more...

February 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Tiger quitting is good public relations

Why Tiger Woods quitting golf is actually good PR

Finally! Tiger Woods has managed to play a shot at some decent publicity - we explore how. Read more...

December 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment

BT Care about Twitter - why you should too

BT Care enough to use Twitter for customer service

BT Care responded quickly when they saw a Newbury business complain on Twitter. Read more...

December 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Are you squeezing my muffins?

Are you squeezing my muffins? Crisis PR blunder by Tesco

Are you squeezing my muffins? Tesco public relation blunder over 'muffin tampering' Read more...

September 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Abercrombie & Fitch crisis management

Abercrombie & Fitch learn crisis management PR lesson

The disability row that has tarnished Abercombie & Fitch teaching us about Crisis Management Public Relations Read more...

August 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Estate Agents blunder on Twitter

For Sale: Reputations. Estate Agents lose the plot on Twitter

Two estate agents have ventured on to Twitter... and are squandering their reputation with clumsy mistakes. Read more...

July 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Unfriendly Habitat on Twitter

Sales & PR blunder: how Habitat UK lost its way on Twitter

Habitat UK truly loses its way with an awful social media marketing blunder on Twitter Read more...

June 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Britain has got Cybersquatting Talent

Britains Got Talent - particularly among cybersquatters

We blogged last month about Susan Boyle being targetted by cybersquatters - here's an update. Read more...

May 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment

''We boobed' - why 'sorry' is a great PR word!

We boobed - why sorry is a great Public Relations word!

Is Sorry the hardest word? Not anymore! Marks & Spencer have apologised - or rather said "We boobed" over bra prices. Read more...

May 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment