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Vote for me in CIPR elections
Voting for elections to the Council of the UK’s Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) opens on 1 September, and I am standing for election (read my personal statement here), having been...
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The ghost of Stephen “Roy” Sherlock
An unsubstantiated addition to a little-watched Wikipedia article can quickly become accepted as ‘fact’. The Sennar Dam and Blue Nile, photo by crew of Discovery, STS-29, March 15, 1989. Having...
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PR use of public images under FOP threat
Photographs including modern buildings and other creative works may fall foul of new European Parliament copyright proposals. New constraints on ‘freedom of panoroma’ may stop PR businesses using...
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City-Insights: hyper-local story-telling
As a construction technology blogger, I sometimes encounter tools that have wider potential including use by communications professionals. City-Insights helps ‘tell stories about places’ via mobile...
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ICE joins DBwiki supporters
The Institution of Civil Engineers has become the latest supporter of the Designing Buildings Wiki.* Launched in 2012 (see my November 2012 post and February 2013 follow-up), Designing Buildings Wiki...
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Passing a Wikipedia milestone
Sometime earlier this month, I passed a Wikipedia milestone of sorts: I submitted my 20,000th edit. I started editing the English Wikipedia 12 years, four months and 16 days ago (there is a handy...
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Watching a news story unfold on Wikipedia
The English football sexual abuse scandal is being extensively covered in newspapers and on TV and radio. It is also being captured in Wikipedia articles; articles about organisations or individuals...
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Platinum guides PRs on Wikipedia
Last week saw the launch of ‘Platinum’, a book celebrating 70 years of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR). The book includes 45 essays providing an insight into contemporary PR...
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One in three construction practitioners do not have easy access to the...
A survey carried out by the UK’s Construction Knowledge Task Group has found that a third of construction practitioners do not have easy access to the knowledge they need. Feedback from 299...
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The North Face and Leo Burnett Tailor Made join the Wikipedia hall of shame
News today (see The Guardian, The Drum, for example) that marketing agency Leo Burnett Tailor Made (part of the multinational Publicis marketing and public relations agency group) has manipulated...
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