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Monthly Archive August, 2008

Running-mate Joe Biden’s impressive YouTube debut for Barack Obama

Joe Biden’s video debut f.as Vice Presidential running mate to Barack Obama was impressive in both its form and its content.

Filed in: Digital communications

How Birmingham city council made a PR blunder worse…

IT must be one of the classic PR blunders of the year…
Birmingham city council in the West Midlands produces 360,000 leaflets – using a picture of Birmingham, Alabama!
As the saying goes, ‘you couldn’t make this stuff up’.
A sharp-eyed Brummie first spotted the Alabama image on the leaflet and rang the council to complain.
No doubt there [...]

Filed in: Public Affairs

The Manchester congestion charge – the only way to get £3billion for public transport?

MANCHESTER could lose £3billion investment in our public transport because of opposition to a proposed congestion charge.
That was the message at a public meeting in the city called to discuss the controversial charge, which would bring new extensions to the Metrolink as well as 120 new buses, extra rail carriages and pedestrian and cycle paths.
Labour [...]

Filed in: Public Affairs