Author: mike

As the EU referendum enters its final throes the Stay and Brexit campaigns are gearing themselves up for one last thrust ready to convert those whose minds are still not made up. Whilst as a PR agency we have watched with fascination the way both sides...

15 June, 2016

Like many saddened by Muhammad Ali’s death, we’ve watched a great deal on the TV and online in the past couple of days, as we all pay homage to the passing of a true giant of mankind. Pretty-much everyone of note has been wheeled out to...

07 June, 2016

There is nothing more therapeutic than a cull of Facebook bores. On a personal and a professional level, those people/organisations whose content leaves us somewhere between our eyes glazing over and wanting to punch our screens need to be out of our headspace. After all, we...

19 May, 2016

What do you think when Public Relations is mentioned? Probably glamour and an element of mystery as PR gurus work their magic to make you better known, but on the negative side a lot of expense for something often lacking clarity of outcome. If that’s your view,...

11 May, 2016

The two worlds of marketing and communications have changed beyond recognition in recent times – and this shows no sign of slowing down. For businesses, it can cause a brain ache. So, here are Nolan PR’s 10 simple rules for making PR work in the...

12 April, 2016

  One of the country’s leading legal communications experts has welcomed a call by the Legal Services Board (LSB) for lawyers to get rid of jargon, but says implementing it could take a generation. Mike Nolan, Managing Director of Nolan PR, said a culture of jargon and...

12 April, 2016

A decade ago barely anyone knew what a blogger was, but so great has been the social media and blogging revolution of recent years they have now become part of modern life. We at Nolan PR now recommend to all clients that they make blogging part of their...

07 April, 2016

When it comes to PR there is no better accolade than becoming the ‘go to professional expert,’ wheeled out for every available media opportunity. Your everyday doctors, dentists, lawyers, vets and so on have seen their lives and their incomes transformed by a little sprinkle of...

03 March, 2016

  Do you recall when only the kids were into Facebook? It wasn’t really that long ago or at least it doesn’t seem so, well, to those of us a little more worldly wise anyway. According to recent reports, Facebook is losing its ‘cool factor’ and this is...

02 February, 2016

Right now there is a Minnesota dentist who in the words of Andy Warhol is having his fifteen minutes of fame, but you can bet he wishes he was as anonymous as he was only a week or so ago. Walter Palmer has currently got himself...

30 July, 2015