Category Archives: Communication PR
When will the EU tackle recurrent issues surrounding market access? (Priti Breakey)
http://www.pharmatimes.com/Article/13-05-20/Pharma_access_problems_putting_EU_at_risk.aspx Should spending cuts have ever effected life saving medicines?
Quintiles forms 5 year strategic alliance with Merck Serono. (Priti Breakey)
Both companies share a common goal of cost-disciplined science but longer term how to expedite the delivery of new therapeutic options to patients with high medical need across Merck Serono’s core research areas of neurology, oncology, immuno-oncology and immunology. http://www.pharmatimes.com/Article/13-05-16/Quintiles_inks_five-year_clinical_development_partnership_with_Merck_Serono.aspx
Top 10 Reasons To Be Confident and Happy About PR Agencies & Their Future. (Eddie Everard)
Interesting article by one of our top global PR agency clients @KetchumPR http://blog.ketchum.com/ten-good-reasons-to-be-happy-about-the-pr-agency-business/
The Power of Marketing ( Julia Walton)
There’s a saying: ‘What do bad writers know that you don’t? How to sell.’ That someone who writes as woefully as Dan Brown is a best seller just goes to show what good marketing can achieve. I think the … Continue reading
Social Media Success (Alys Barber)
So, it’s my turn to write the social media content here at Media Contacts. I have a few options, there is plenty to talk about in the news. Sir Alex Ferguson retiring (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22447018), for instance, and how happy it makes … Continue reading
Which Social Media Personality Are You? via @therealprmoment. Eddie Everard
This infographic has been put together from research by First Direct, it breaks down social media personalities into 12 different types. Which one are you? I don’t think I fall into one specific type but lie across about 3.. http://blog.prmoment.com/12-types-of-social-media-personalities/
“Glorious blue sunshine.” (Christopher Martin-Jenkins) – Alys Barber
There were two rather important services at St Paul’s in London last week. One which has been debated and which has not been out of the press since. I don’t want to get into a political debate on here, so … Continue reading
Thought about a career in the travel industry? (Eddie Everard)
I recruit for several of London’s top travel PR agencies from boutiques through to global agencies and when I work on a role most clients like to interview candidates that already have travel PR experience but it’s certainly not impossible … Continue reading
“’Classic’. A book which people praise but don’t read.” (Mark Twain, in cynical mode)
In my last post I wrote about books and whether the Kindle and other e-readers would lead to their demise. Concluding, hopefully, that books will be just fine, because they are a different experience. An e-book is not a book … Continue reading
“There is no friend as loyal as a book.” Ernest Hemingway. (Alys Barber)
I am one of those people who will stubbornly resist a new form of technology – often for quite a long time. I’d still have a Nokia 3210 if it wasn’t for a very patient salesman in the T-Mobile shop. And … Continue reading
