Pickle Jar Communications

This week I chaired the CIPR Education and Skills Sector Group’s panel discussion on ‘Building contacts with international media’. Needless to say the subject was popular with universities and we had a turnout of around 80 people. However, the session got me thinking about the varying degrees of ethics in the PR-journalist relationship around the [...]

Picked this up today from “For blog’s sake”. Very funny, and a great example of how you have to be careful with everything you publish online!

There was a really good 12 minute segment on You and Yours yesterday on Radio 4 (Friday 15th February) on Science and the media. Definitely worth a listen.

I think my partner might be getting a little suspicious about where all of his ties keep disappearing to. You see, without him knowing, I have been secretly stealing them (not such a secret once he sees this) for a training session that I am delivering in a couple of weeks time. The session is [...]

Now, Coventry doesn’t have the best of reputations. Being said to be “sent to Coventry” is no good thing, and Hitler clearly didn’t think much of the city either when he chose to drop a considerable amount of explosive on in over 50 years ago. Some visitors consider the ring-road to be an impenetrable barrier, [...]

My partner and I went to New York last week where he suprised me (suprised because it’s taken him a while) by proposing on my Birthday. So, in typical naughties-style I couldn’t wait to get home and online to update my facebook relationship status to “engaged”. Soppy, hey? But the point is this, on the [...]