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The Obama social media dream, and how it happened
There is still an overwhelming fascination about Barack Obama's unprecedented use of the social media which took him straight to The White House. He used it to raise a staggering $668 million and on the day of the election, there were 1.2 billion blog posts written...
The embarrassment of Jacqui Smith
I imagine it's the spare room tonight for the shamed husband of Home Secretary Jacqui Smith who was forced into making a humiliating apology for heaping huge embarrassment on his wife over a bungled expenses claim which included two porno films he watched while she...
Robert Sturdy urges G20 leaders to promote free trade
My MEP Robert Sturdy is a key international trade spokesman and in this video he explains why we need to increase free trade across borders globally and do away with protectionism to help recover from the recession. Is that what G20 world leaders will have in mind...
How can charities survive?
This video provides advice from the experts on how charities can use communications to promote their organisations during the economic downturn. It features hot tips from Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow; Mark Webster, Director of Communications with the Charities...
How to pitch a story to a national magazine
I heard Victoria Woodhall, deputy features editor for You magazine, Mail on Sunday, give this helpful advice at a charity conference, and asked her to share it via my video. Although it is aimed at the charity sector and describes how they can successfully achieve...
The “shame” of having cancer
The "shame" and "embarrassment" some people feel about admitting to having cancer has been described in this video by Jola Gore-Booth, founder of europacolon. "There's taboo of cancer, there's still embarrassment. People do not want to admit that they have cancer in...
“Deal with Brown, prepare for Cameron”
How should charities communicate and survive the economic downturn? Peter Bingle, chairman of Bell Pottinger Public Affairs had some sound advice - "deal with Brown, prepare for Cameron." It was uncomfortably political for some of the audience at the conference where...
Voting for the FT Climate Change Challenge
It's the kind of zany stuff you might have seen featured on BBC's Tomorrow's World. I am totally blown away by the innovativeness of these five far-reaching ideas which have been shortlisted in the Financial Times Climate Change Challenge which I wrote about last...
My beautiful mother
They broke the mould when they made my mother Loula. Like many of her generation, she has had to overcome many hardships. I remember her telling me how she used to walk miles as a child for a crust of bread to survive the ravages of war. She had no fun-filled...