Blog Posts May 2010
NZ PR Blog: Mix business and pleasure on Foursquare
I’m Mayor of Ideas Shop. And Caffe Italia in Berhampore. And I aspire to becoming mayor of Floridita’s on Cuba as well. But don’t tell the incumbent or I’ll never unseat him.
Your votes can’t help me, sadly, as universal suffrage plays no part here. Success is down to the number of times I visit and check in at these locations using Foursquare, the sizzling location-based app coming to a smart phone near you.
Some short-sighted social...
Posted by Mark Russell on Monday 24th May 2010
A new oil crisis: a crisis of reputation
The leaking of 210,000 gallons of oil each day into the Gulf of Mexico is without a doubt a reputation crisis for BP (as my colleague Jillian noted last week) - but it's very quickly becoming a crisis for the entire oil industry.
Commentators have suggested it could take another two weeks - and another 2.9 million gallons of oil - before the oil wells can be sealed.
Just as the Chernobyl disaster led many countries to revisit their use of nuclear power generators until safety...
Posted by Amanda Woodbridge on Thursday 13th May 2010
Crisis Management – can BP survive the spill?
BP Group is a British global energy company and the 4th largest organisation in the world.
On April 22 a BP oil drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, situated in the Gulf of Mexico, exploded and sank, resulting in the death of 11 rig workers, their tragic deaths now being over-shadowed by a major environmental disaster.
The British oil giant has vowed to harness all of its resources to battle the spill as it tries to salvage something of its carefully manicured image of environmental...
Posted by Jillian Keogh on Monday 10th May 2010