It’s a tense and equally exciting time for members of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations [CIPR], as only a week of voting remains before the 2014 president-elect is named. As the campaigning continues, we caught up with election candidate and Admiral’s chairman, Stephen Waddington, to find out why he is standing for president and [...]

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Those in the know have long suspected something romantic has been developing between the mature establishment figure of television and the giddy young darling that is the social media network. The two have just been getting closer and closer over the last few years. A Thinkbox report, which revealed that Britons now watch over four [...]

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The New Year has been a great start for the newest member of the team, Julia Wailes-Fairbairn. Appointed as Business Support Administrator in the Admiral PR agency Newcastle head office, Julia will be responsible for business development. Peter Bould, Head of Office North East, said: “Julia is a great addition to the team and her [...]

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Twitter introduced a video service last week called Vine. It enables you to create a six-second video and share it with your chosen social network. It will generate a wave of creativity across the social web as communicators road test the app in the coming days and weeks. Here, Stephen discusses a few ways that [...]

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This month Managing Director Georgie Cameron steps into the Admiral spotlight to share her love of travelling and her key tool for a successful PR campaign. What do you do to relax? I like to walk and ride in the Cheviots and travel to far flung places off the beaten track. What is the best [...]

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In the world of social media, change is inevitable and indeed necessary but, I would argue, not always for the best. The jury is still out as to whether some of the more recent innovations such as Google+ and Twitter’s Vine are going to succeed in the long term but meanwhile the latest metamorphosis is Facebook’s search [...]

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