Sport
Let the Games begin...
Posted by sarah at Fri, 08/08/2008 - 1:33pm in
Olympic fever swept the Mandate offices this lunch time with the explosive start to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. The Games burst into life with a breathtaking display of fireworks, music (er, anyone else confused by the choice of bagpipes) and dancing.
In the lead up to the Games the Chinese made clear their intent to host the "best ever" Games and today's opening certainly lived up to hype. The Chinese sure know how to throw a party - today's festivities were complete with a military band, dancing puppets, a 16 tonne globe and 20,000 fireworks.
Spotting PR as a hobby
Posted by Deborah Lewis at Tue, 17/06/2008 - 5:26am in
Spotting PR stories has become a quasi-subconscious hobby after so many years in PR, a bit like seeing anagrams in car number plates or spotting Sudoku numbers at first glance. I just can’t help it now though sometimes I dislike the cynicism it may imply. Is a branded story altogether the product of PR?
