My Best Hire
09 Dec 2005
Chris Hamer, MD of Triangle PR, on the '110 per cent' Maha Bishay.
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For many people Tony Blair's third election victory will have been the political event of 2005. But for me the year's most significant moment was the speech I heard in the Winter Gardens, Blackpool, a few months later.
How tedious that, yet again, the doomsayers foretell a time when sharp-suited management consultants will run all the strategy, with us dim-witted PR types scraping around issuing press releases and polishing their shoes (Letters, 2 December).
The IPA welcomed your feature ('End this practice,' 2 December) on our confidential pitch advisory service.
Laudable though much of 'A question of quality' (TNS Annual Report, 25 November) was, I couldn't help but feel it conflated two things: industry standard media evaluation and kitemarked PR standards.
'Why don't we trust government stats?' (Analysis, 18 November). Because they are marketed to us, rather than presented factually.
Has Tesco's mission to take over the world hit a snag? After years of steady expansion into every area of our lives, criticism of the retail behemoth seems to be mounting in volume and variety.
We have all heard the saying 'a good day to bury bad news', but last week saw the first good day to bury good news. Gordon Brown 'launched' the 2018 English World Cup bid just as the best economic news of the year broke. This might seem like a monumental blunder, but do not be fooled.
Peter Thomas, Accenture UK and Ireland marketing and comms director, on the 'committed' Samantha Lucas.
'Is VoIP the next tech PR goldmine?' was interesting, if a little odd (PRWeek, 11 November). Sure, VoIP represents an opportunity for PR companies with a client or two in that sector, but 'the next tech PR goldmine'? No more or less than many other technology innovations of the past decade or two.