Posts Tagged ‘dominos’

Gordon Brown on YouTube does more harm than good

April 26th, 2009 by Daniel Young | No Comments | Filed in Politics, Public Relations, Social media

On Thursday, we had UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown on YouTube talking about the introduction of new reforms to deal with the issue of MP expenses.  Apparently, Gordon rarely meets young people that want to become MPs and he feels that refoming expenses rules for MPs is one of the reasons for this.

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Food tampering and political smear campaigns: Dominos and Labour Government online

April 23rd, 2009 by Daniel Young | 1 Comment | Filed in Public Relations, Social media

Two ‘case studies’ in social media have been high on the agenda in the last few weeks. They are:

  1. Wayward Dominos’ employees in Conover, North Carolina
  2. The UK Labour Government’s political smear campaign

I have heard much discussion about the brand and political impact of these unfortunate exposes and lots of experts talking about the need for the victims (or culprits) to engage social media to clean up the mess caused by these indiscretions.

All of this is interesting to a point.

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