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Facebook, as it comes under mounting criticism, has promised to do more to tackle hoax stories in the wake of scrutiny following the US election result. Although it seems a bit after the horse has bolted, it’s high time this issue started being flagged up, because...

15 November, 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

  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

News that solicitors are missing out on business to the unregulated sector will come as little surprise to those in the law profession. Research revealed this week by the Legal Services Board has shown that Google searches found many law firms missing from the first page...

17 July, 2015

New research has indicated that most of the public aren’t being enticed by legal national brands, preferring to go to a traditional local law firm instead. In fact, only one third of the public would go to a national brand. The recently published UK Legal Services Market...

20 March, 2015

  The Irish playwright Brendan Behan was famous for saying there’s no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary. There’s a good chance his thoughts will be echoed this week by his fellow countryman Bob Geldof. As you are no doubt aware, the public relations...

18 November, 2014