CorpComms Magazine

Chill out - social media is just the Internet
Author: Joe Wiggins | Date: 15/07/2010| Issue: 48
Joe Wiggins, PR manager at Legal & General (@JoeWi), explains why social media matters and offers his advice on not worry about the phenomenon

Battle of the Roses
Author: Trevor Datson | Date: 28/05/2010| Issue: 46
Trevor Datson, former head of global financial communications at Cadbury, offers a personal insight into the confectionery company's battle against Kraft

Getting a grip
Author: Ian Ratcliffe | Date: 28/05/2010| Issue: 46
Ian Ratcliffe, vice chair of LGcommunications and head of communications at Stockport Council, finds that advice does not need to be revolutionary to be useful

A is for Advocate/Activist (delete as applicable)
Author: Reuben Aitchison | Date: 21/04/2010| Issue: 45
Reuben Aitchison, head of public relations at Aon, ponders self promotion and the indisputable link that now exists between internaland external communications

One candle
Author: Scott Fulton | Date: 11/03/2010| Issue: 44
Is the life industry failing the public by using obscure acronyms and complex terminology, ponders Scott Fulton, associate director of external relations, Just Retirement

Stephanie Lvovich
Author: Stephanie Lvovich | Date: 12/01/2010| Issue: 43
Deputy managing director, APCO Worldwide

Amanda Pierce
Author: Amanda Pierce | Date: 12/01/2010| Issue: 43
Director, corporate, issues and technology practice, Burson-Marsteller

Dale Parmenter
Author: Dale Parmenter | Date: 12/01/2010| Issue: 43
Managing director, DRP Group

Robert Phillips
Author: Robert Phillips | Date: 12/01/2010| Issue: 43
Chief executive, Edelman

Adrian Brady
Author: Adrian Brady | Date: 12/01/2010| Issue: 43
Chief executive, Eulogy!

David Hart
Author: David Hart | Date: 12/01/2010| Issue: 43
Director of corporate communications, Fleishman-Hillard

Ben Tuxworth
Author: Ben Tuxworth | Date: 12/01/2010| Issue: 43
Director of communications, Forum for the Future

Alex Northcott
Author: Alex Northcott | Date: 12/01/2010| Issue: 43
Chief executive, Gorkana

Robert Nuttall
Author: Robert Nuttall | Date: 12/01/2010| Issue: 43
Managing director, Green Mandate

Tom Wells
Author: Tom Wells | Date: 12/01/2010| Issue: 43
Managing director, Gyroscope

Sally Costerton
Author: Sally Costerton | Date: 12/01/2010| Issue: 43
Chairman & chief executive, Hill & Knowlton Europe, Middle East & Africa

Richard Carpenter
Author: Richard Carpenter | Date: 12/01/2010| Issue: 43
Managing director, Merchant

Kate Shaw
Author: Kate Shaw | Date: 12/01/2010| Issue: 43
Managing director, Living PR

David Pugh
Author: David Pugh | Date: 12/01/2010| Issue: 43
Managing director, Newspaper Licensing Agency

Jim Hawker
Author: Jim Hawker | Date: 12/01/2010| Issue: 43
Co-founder, Threepipe

Oskar Yasar
Author: Oskar Yasar | Date: 12/01/2010| Issue: 43
Managing director, VMA International

Caroline Randle
Author: Caroline Randle | Date: 12/01/2010| Issue: 43
UK director of corporate practice, Waggener

Back to the future
Author: Euan Semple | Date: 12/01/2010| Issue: 43
Euan Semple, who first introduced social media tools into the BBC ten years ago, offers his views of the changes that may be afoot in this most dynamic of industries

Caroline Cecil
Author: Caroline Cecil | Date: 12/01/2010| Issue: 43
Chairman of CIPR Corporate and Financial Group, and director of Caroline Cecil Associates

Reuben Aitchison
Author: Reuben Aitchison | Date: 12/01/2010| Issue: 43
Head of Public Relations, Aon

Roman Townsend
Author: Roman Townsend | Date: 12/01/2010| Issue: 43
Account director, Penrose Financial and speaker secretary to the CIPR Corporate and Financial Group

The truth is out there
Author: Tim Morris | Date: 01/12/2009| Issue: 42
Tim Morris, head of communications for the Parole Board, who also lectures on public relations and ethics on the CIPR Foundation Award at London's City Lit College, ponders whether lying is ever justified

We sell pizza - what could possibly go wrong?
Author: Georgina Wald | Date: 05/11/2009| Issue: 41
When two employees decided to film themselves doing unthinkable things to food, Domino's Pizza was forced to deal with a new style of crisis, and Georgina Wald, corporate communications manager of Domino's Pizza, thinks the company did rather well

A small measure of success
Author: Reuben Aitchison | Date: 01/10/2009| Issue: 40
Finding the best way to clearly demonstrate the value you bring to your business is not a new challenge, but it does become more important in times when revenues and margins are under pressure, as Reuben Aitchison, head of public relations at risk and insurance firm, Aon, has discovered

Working together
Author: Manuel Linnig | Date: 10/08/2009| Issue: 39
A successful digital media campaign needs to be integrated with more traditional media channels, argues Manuel Linnig, EMEA PR Manager, HP Personal Systems Group

It just doesn't measure up
Author: Neil Martinson | Date: 13/07/2009| Issue: 38
Neil Martinson, director of news and PR at the COI, wonders how media evaluation firms can generate different results considering the same campaign

Two sides of the same coin
Author: Fred Banning | Date: 10/06/2009| Issue: 37
Fred Banning, PR adviser at Lovells LLP, compares in-house roles and agency positions and finds both have their benefits

Selling out to go one better
Author: John Duckworth | Date: 10/05/2009| Issue: 36
Jon Duckworth, head of marketing and promotions at Premier Rugby, discusses boosting ticket sales

Beware fair-weather friends
Author: Colin Crooks | Date: 10/04/2009| Issue: 35
Colin Crooks, chief executive of Green-works, argues that CSR should be maintained during good times and bad

The wisdom of our crowd
Author: Neil White | Date: 18/02/2009| Issue: 34
Neil White, manager of internal communications and press at Companies House, recalls a tumultuous three years developing a new communication framework

Barry Leggetter
Author: Barry Leggetter | Date: 19/01/2009| Issue: 33
Executive director, AMEC

Colin Farrington
Author: Colin Farrington | Date: 19/01/2009| Issue: 33
Director general, Chartered Institute of Public Relations

Gordon Tempest-Hay
Author: Gordon Tempest-Hay | Date: 19/01/2009| Issue: 33
Managing director, Blue Rubicon

Colette Hill
Author: Colette Hill | Date: 19/01/2009| Issue: 33
Chairman, CHA

Giselle Bodie
Author: Giselle Bodie | Date: 19/01/2009| Issue: 33
Managing director, Cision

Stephen Watson
Author: Stephen Watson | Date: 19/01/2009| Issue: 33
Chief executive, CTN Communications

Chris Genasi
Author: Chris Genasi | Date: 19/01/2009| Issue: 33
Chief executive, Eloqui

Ros Kindersley
Author: Ros Kindersley | Date: 19/01/2009| Issue: 33
Managing director, JFL

Tony Langham
Author: Tony Langham | Date: 19/01/2009| Issue: 33
Chief executive, Lansons Communications

Rod Cartwright
Author: Rod Cartwright | Date: 19/01/2009| Issue: 33
Managing director, public affairs, Ketchum

Warwick Partington
Author: Warwick Partington | Date: 19/01/2009| Issue: 33
Managing director, Media Training Masterclasses

David Simonson
Author: David Simonson | Date: 19/01/2009| Issue: 33
Managing director, Merlin

Stuart Wilson
Author: Stuart Wilson | Date: 19/01/2009| Issue: 33
Chief executive, MS&L

Jean Wyllie
Author: Jean Wyllie | Date: 19/01/2009| Issue: 33
President of EMEA, Porter Novelli

Marcus Gault
Author: Marcus Gault | Date: 19/01/2009| Issue: 33
Managing director, Precise Media

Francis Ingham
Author: Francis Ingham | Date: 19/01/2009| Issue: 33
Director general, Public Relations Consultants Association

Rob Ettridge
Author: Rob Ettridge | Date: 19/01/2009| Issue: 33
Client services director, Red Lorry, Yellow Lorry

Angie Moxham
Author: Angie Moxham | Date: 19/01/2009| Issue: 33
Chief monkey, 3 Monkeys

Will Cameron
Author: Will Cameron | Date: 19/01/2009| Issue: 33
Director, Corporate strategy, Waggener Edstrom

Colin Byrne
Author: Colin Byrne | Date: 19/01/2009| Issue: 33
Chief executive, Europe, Weber Shandwick

You get the reputation you deserve
Author: Rupert Younger | Date: 15/12/2008| Issue: 32
Reputation is all about behaviour, argues Rupert Younger

Fancy a doughnut?
Author: Justin Urquhart Stewart | Date: 10/11/2008| Issue: 31
Justin Urquhart Stewart, marketing director of Seven Investment Management, considers the thorny problem of communicating with investors

Online Exclusive: HBOS man leads banking pack
Author: Andrew Cave | Date: 29/09/2008
Shane O'Riordain, director of corporate communications at HBOS, has emerged as the best-regarded communications professional at a British high street bank

The currency of communications
Author: Helen Dunne | Date: 01/09/2008| Issue: 30
Christian Ball, head of internal communications at law firm Nabarro, considers whether the global credit crisis renders corporate communications a public convenience or a private joke