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The title of this piece paraphrases (kind of) Sir Alex Ferguson’s initial response when asked his thoughts on Man Utd’s miraculous 1999 Champions League final win over Bayern Munich. It’s also a rather weak attempt to segway into a piece on how football generally seems not to get (or care about) PR. The FA, not [...]
Continue Reading →As Bob Dylan once said in ‘Subterranean Homesick Blues’ and perhaps he was right (mind you he also said not to wear sandals and I’ve never quite got to the bottom of that – perhaps there was another bit to the line which said ‘with socks’ but it got edited out). Anyway, let’s focus, even [...]
Continue Reading →Monday 14th November saw members of the BlueSky team groping through the early morning gloom to the latest Maki conference – a get together of communications professionals from major universities such as Oxford, Princeton, UC Dublin and New York State and top international journalists. So what did we learn from the experience? That most of [...]
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If ever there is a time for a company’s comms machine to prove it’s worth, it is arguably when something goes wrong. It’s all very well pushing out self-congratulatory messages and engaging anyone who’ll listen whilst everything is ticking along nicely, but when the proverbial hits the fan? That’s when you earn your money…especially in [...]
Continue Reading →As Barbra Streisand says in the song ‘People’, “People who need people are the luckiest people in the world.” Yeah, right – try telling that to our HR manager. But come on, this is good news for someone. BlueSky is on the look-out for a new team member and it could be you. So what [...]
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Social media can be daunting if you haven’t used it before, but it can be a great tool for recruitment businesses looking to engage with both clients and candidates. We’ll be running our ‘top tips’ for a series of social media platforms. First up: LinkedIn. Ensure you have an optimized profile. Follow the advice on [...]
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With barely any time to digest the first episode of this year’s Apprentice, Lord Sugar has been quick to fire another shameless wannabe. The latest episode followed the usual pattern of girls against boys in a challenge, But this time it involved an original task in a very current (and thriving) market – digital. The [...]
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Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit Lord Sugar’s carnival of corporate caricatures rolled into town last night for a seventh series. This time around, the glittering carrot at the end of the stick is a £250k investment from Lord Sugar and the promise that he’ll be lurking in the shadows as an equal partner [...]
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It’s been three months since I took my first nervous steps into the BlueSky office, and I have to say they’ve flown by. As a newcomer to PR, I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect. My experience with PR was limited, as was my experience in the world of work in general, having graduated the [...]
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Call me old fashioned, but I’m a firm believer in genuinely good service resulting in word of mouth as the first principle of PR, especially now that the internet has given word of mouth a megaphone. A common myth is that PR is all about spin, about getting as much positive coverage as possible and [...]
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