Andy’s blog
A regular blog about things connected – sometimes only vaguely – to what we do at salt. I’ve worked in PR for 20 something years, at salt since we set it up in 2000, and I’m interested in what makes communications work. I hope you find something interesting in these ramblings, and I’d love to hear what you think.
Subscribe to this blogThe global issue of the moment – youth unemployment
February 10th, 2012
It was interesting to hear David Miliband calling this week for a new approach to address youth unemployment in Britain (as reported in the Guardian). He was speaking as chair of the commission that prepared a new report on the issue for ACEVO,...
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Failing to measure up…
February 1st, 2012
This week salt's Eli Turander looks at measurement within the PR industry. See you next week, Andy
Measurement has long been the holy grail of the PR industry. For many years, PR practitioners measured the value of their PR through...
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The power of business to do good
January 24th, 2012
The world’s business leaders are meeting in Davos this week for their annual get-together. It is, as ever, a high profile event, reported on extensively through media outlets from the Times of India to Time magazine, and the BBC to The...
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Happy New Year
January 5th, 2012
Happy New Year. Now that it’s here, 2012 suddenly feels very exciting. It was only when watching the fireworks as Big Ben struck midnight that I realised just how big a year 2012 is going to be for London. We’ve all had 2012 in the back of...
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Happy Christmas
December 21st, 2011
No new post this week, other than to wish those who celebrate it a Happy Christmas, and those who don’t, a welcome break at the end of the year, and everyone a peaceful and prosperous 2012. Please note that no elves were digitally rendered in...
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Talking about poo should not be taboo
December 8th, 2011
This week’s post comes from salt’s Julia, who has been working hard on World Toilet Day. See you next week. Andy
“We shall not finally defeat AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, or any of the other infectious diseases that plague the developing...
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The other sustainability
December 2nd, 2011
When we talk about sustainability, most of us tend to think of the environment first. What’s the cost to the planet of the choices we make as individuals, as businesses, as governments? That’s hardly surprising given the high profile...
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Communication lessons in baseball
November 21st, 2011
I’m trying to race through Michael Lewis’ ‘Moneyball’ before the Brad Pitt film comes out later this month. It’s creating a lot of interest in the UK press, like this piece by the always readable Simon Kuper in last weekend’s FT.
A...
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Creating less work for the PR people
November 9th, 2011
“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything”
Mark Twain’s quote is arguably more relevant today, in our age of internet-fuelled transparency, than when he wrote it nearly 120 years ago. He was warning against the knots...
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When records really count
November 2nd, 2011
One of the things that makes a career in PR so much more interesting than being a corporate lawyer or merchant banker (and you keep telling yourself that interesting is way more important than lucrative) is that, from time to time, you find yourself...
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How kiss-and-tell has made the world a better place
October 20th, 2011
Every week we’re served a diet of footballers and other celebrities cheating on their partners, caught by tabloid, text and Twitter. And while Liam Fox wasn’t accused of directly cheating anyone in the scandal that led to his resignation last...
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A disgusting thought
October 12th, 2011
We got talking about disgust over lunch the other day. Not because of the food (which was lovely), but because a friend had started a piece of work on the role of emotion in conflict resolution, and the particularly deep role that disgust can play...
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The power of talking human
September 16th, 2011
Sitting at gate A8 at McCarran International Airport, Las Vegas, on a tired Sunday afternoon, they announce that our flight to San Francisco is delayed.
But none of the delayed passengers grumble. The nice US Airlines lady was so friendly and...
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The power of talking human
October 12th, 2011
Sitting at gate A8 at McCarran International Airport, Las Vegas, on a tired Sunday afternoon, they announce that our flight to San Francisco is delayed.
But none of the delayed passengers grumble. The nice US Airlines lady was so friendly and...
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