The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, will meet business leaders and entrepreneurs from across the region when he is guest of honour at a lunch being held by networking organisation the Met Club.

The luncheon takes place at Hazelwood Castle, near Tadcaster, on Wednesday 21 July, between noon and 2.30pm.

Christine Armstrong, managing director of the Met Club, said: “We are really honoured that Dr Sentamu has agreed to join us for our July lunch, and he really is someone that doesn’t need any introduction.” Read the rest of this entry »

Facebook, the world’s most used social network site, has scored major PR points after bowing to the UK’s child protection agency to boost its security with several new safety features in a bid to help stave off internet predators.

Users of the site will now be able to report any unwanted or suspicious behaviour directly to child protection groups.

And while these measures are all well and good, we are still trying to get a Facebook site taken down that is openly libellous and abusive about one of our clients and, obviously, we are not going to say who it is. Read the rest of this entry »

Flickr is a great online image resource that can help your website’s SEO, but it should also form an integral part of your social media strategy, and up to a point it’s free.

What’s really annoying about it is the companies and organisations that get an account add a few pics then forget about it, or don’t bother connecting and making friends.

Welcome to Yorkshire has had a Flickr account since March 2009, it currently has 131 images, no contacts or description of what WtY does (it promotes tourism across within the county), although its images are tagged. Read the rest of this entry »

There’s nothing like a crisis to keep you on your toes when you work in PR, and the people at the Toyota press office must have been putting the hours in over the past couple of months after the company was forced to recall 2.3 million vehicles due to a faulty accelerator.

It’s now beginning to emerge that in the days leading up to the recall back in January (there had been others in September 2009 for a similar problem), Toyota executives debated when they should let the public know about the safety problems.

At the time group vice president for environment and public affairs Irv Miller – who has now retired from the company – said in a email to colleagues: “We are not protecting our customers by keeping this quiet. The time to hide on this one is over. We need to come clean.” Read the rest of this entry »