31/07/17 15:57 Filed in:
blogThe announcement of a ban on sale of petrol or diesel powered cars from 2040 must rank right up there as one of the most momentous motoring announcements of recent years.
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16/07/17 12:38 Filed in:
blogThe internet could be about to embark on massive changes that would result in our providers selling us premium packages to access the sites that we like online.
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15/02/16 16:12 Filed in:
blogThe collapse in the oil price is a painful reminder that Britain’s time as an oil producer won’t last forever. We have been here before, of course, and the oil price has always bounced back giving us another period of buoyancy. But, as each year passes, we get closer to the end of the North Sea Oil era.
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17/06/15 11:38 Filed in:
blogI always remember the article in a computer magazine that started with the statement: “all computer disks will fail, the only question is when”. It’s amazing how that statement makes you sit up and start worrying about your back-up strategy.
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08/05/15 12:01 Filed in:
blogAnyone who thought that the result of the General Election would mark the end of the political debate about the future of our country will be sadly disillusioned this morning.
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17/04/15 12:21 Filed in:
blogAt a time when Aberdeen is looking at implement a new City Centre Masterplan and looking at ways to connect the city centre more effectively to Aberdeen Beach, is this a time to reconsider my suggestion of a city centre monorail?
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18/02/15 15:27 Filed in:
blogYour business identity is the fundamental element in your corporate communications strategy. The business name and the visual identity are the face of your business and express your identity and personality to internal and external audiences.
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28/01/15 09:30 Filed in:
blogJudging by the petitions and demonstrations, it seems that many of Aberdeen’s citizens have a healthy ambition to set high standards when it comes to regenerating our city centre. That is surely a laudable aim.
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24/11/14 11:51 Filed in:
blogMy first-ever PR textbook, the ‘Manual of Public Relations’, wasted no time in getting to the subject of ethics in public relations. It was section 1.5.
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24/09/14 13:57 Filed in:
blogTaking my ballot paper into the voting booth on September 18, I almost felt cheated. There it was. Just one short question and a box for ‘yes’ or ‘no’.
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29/07/14 10:03 Filed in:
blogWhen Muse Developments and Aviva Investors lodged their detailed plans for Aberdeen’s
Marischal Square in May this year it seemed like the developers had won, despite widespread reservations from the public.
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04/06/14 17:59 Filed in:
blogOne early recollection of the revolution was receiving our first internet photograph for a news story. It could hardly have been a more dramatic demonstration of the internet ‘shrinking the world’ as it was a picture of a client’s timber-frame construction project in the remote Falkland Islands.
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09/04/14 11:30 Filed in:
blogIt’s probably inevitable that the unveiling of the design for the proposed Marischal Square in the centre of Aberdeen has provoked a barrage of negative comments in the press.
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28/03/14 12:24 Filed in:
blogWe are now less than six months from arguably the biggest and most momentous decision the people of Scotland have ever had to make. Should Scotland be an independent country – yes, or no?
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19/02/14 14:38 Filed in:
blogA recurring theme across my years in public relations has been the complaint that ‘the media never want to write anything good about us’. This is usually followed up by mutterings that all they are interested in is negative news.
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12/11/13 11:42 Filed in:
blogIt was in 1957 that the then Scottish Secretary signed off the plan for the new bridge over the River Dee to replace the mediaeval Bridge of Dee and link to both the Ring Road (Anderson Drive) and also head west round Garthdee to the proposed Aberdeen by-pass.
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21/10/13 14:06 Filed in:
blogIn the past, marketing and advertising used to be all about grabbing people’s attention to deliver your selling message. These days, effective marketing should be more about holding people’s attention.
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18/10/13 09:24 Filed in:
blogA regularly recurring news item at the moment is the verbal battle between Heathrow and Gatwick about an additional runway.
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10/09/13 09:25 Filed in:
blogI am hoping that a new bill brought forward by Sir Robert Smith, MP for West Aberdeenshire, may tackle the nonsense of hiking delivery charges to Scottish addresses.
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04/09/13 17:14 Filed in:
blogJust when it seemed that the plans for a transformation of Aberdeen city centre were about to disappear, along with Sir Ian Wood’s incredibly generous potential donation of £50 million to the scheme, along comes a new plan from Aberdeen architect John Halliday of Halliday Fraser Munro.
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