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What to look out for this week (20 – 27 May)
Monday 20 – World Health Assembly, Switzerland. Daft Punk release much-hyped album. Tuesday 21 – Centenary Chelsea Flower Show begins, running til Saturday. Microsoft unveils the next generation of Xbox. Thursday 23 – Microsoft Surface Pro hits UK stores (10.6in Windows 8 tablet). Friday 24 – First retrospective exhibit of Rolling Stones opens at the Rock and Roll +
The Friday five
Aberfield PR’s Friday skip through the forest of news. Things that make you go Goo…gle This week saw Google’s annual developer conference in San Francisco, and undoubtedly the two biggest announcements were Google Play Music All Access (catchy) and the updates to Google Maps. If you wanted clear evidence that Google has well and truly +
It’s all about metrics, travel bloggers
I recently attended a travel PR workshop where one of the speakers said they had a ‘no bloggers’ rule when arranging press trips. They just stuck to traditional journalists on the big national newspapers and magazines, major websites and key regional newspapers only. That’s a bit old school, I scoffed. Their reasoning, though, was +
The week ahead: 13 – 19 May
A handy guide to what to look out for in the news this week: Monday 13 – Eurozone ministers release six billion for Greece rescue package. Wednesday 15 – Cannes Film Festival begins. Thursday 16 - Ivor Novello Awards, European Cyber Security Summit, and Instagram launches new photo tagging feature. Saturday 18 – London protests against privatisation of NHS. +
Aberfield PR’s stories of the week
You’d think Fergie’s retirement (that’s Sir Alex, not Sarah…or even Will.i.am’s mate) was the only story in town this week, but here at Aberfield Towers we’re very alert to a good PR story (or a bad one), so here’s a few that caught our eye. New YouTube service offers opportunities for brands Eight years after +
