Graham Lancaster of Biss Lancaster talks to PR Week

Posted by jameswdcrawford on December 10, 2009 under Media | Be the First to Comment

Forget Brian Solis, Robert Scoble and Steve Rubel.  If you want to know about the future of PR ask Graham Lancaster, Chairman of Biss Lancaster.

Graham has worked in the PR industry longer than I have been on plant earth so I should think he could teach most people a thing or two about Public Relations.

This article, via the link below, is from the latest edition of PR Week.  There is a video interview somewhere which I will be posting a link to at some stage too.

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Have you eaten in Mo's Chippy, Deansgate?

Posted by jameswdcrawford on October 23, 2009 under PR | 8 Comments to Read

Mo’s Chippy on Deansgate holds a unique place in the folklore of the PR industry in Manchester. I want to see how deep this special feeling really goes.

Knott Mill, where the chippy is based, is like a mini PR hive of industry. Like Media City will be one day. Mo, the boss, has been serving fish and chips for years to the likes of Biss Lancaster, Weber Shandwick, MC2, Iris Worldwide and Staniforth (before they relocated to Didsbury).

I once witnessed three agency Managing Directors accidentally meeting in the chippy at the same time. Fish and Chips are a great leveller!

Apart from nourishing the minds and souls of PROs, Mo’s Chippy is a great way to get a feel for what is actually happening in the real world, away from the mollycoddled realm of Public Relations.

Food is only a small part of the experience. Mo doesn’t just serve chips but dishes out pearls of wisdom that someone should collate into a book.

So, I thought I would honour Mo with a post, especially as my blog has been really serious of late, with fascists, racists, all sorts of monsters, getting a mention.

So… I am asking the people of PR past-and-present who have fond memories of Mo’s to leave a comment at the bottom of the post and share your feelings for the big man with the deep fryer. In a month or so I shall print off your comments and present them to Mo as a little gift, as I love him like he is part of my family. Well sort of.

I’ll take a photo of the presentation and let you know what he said.

P.s. mine is a Fish Balm please with salt and vinegar

Tck Tck Tck. Download our free track as part of a global petition for climate justice

Posted by jameswdcrawford on October 5, 2009 under PR | Be the First to Comment

Last Thursday Havas Worldwide launched the “Tck Tck Tck: Time for Climate Justice” campaign track – a specially re-written and re-recorded version of Midnight Oil’s hit ‘Beds are Burning’. The track is available as a FREE download on all major music platforms and every download counts as a unique global digital petition to demand world leaders reach a fair, binding and global deal at the UN Climate Change Summit. 

In the 72 hours since the launch, over 100,000 people have already viewed the song on YouTube and downloaded the track. 

If you haven’t already downloaded the track – do it now, it’s free! 

It’s easy to download – go to YouTube:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBTZOg6l6cA&hl=en&fs=1&hd=1] 

Or download directly from iTunes, Emusic, Zune, Rapsodhy, Amazon etc 

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