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		<title>PRs need help</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PR people need help. They appear to have less understanding of how journalists work than ever before. They don’t appreciate deadlines, the speed journalists work at and the hours journalists now work on 24-hour internet media. I have had a couple of weeks of dire experience with PRs. These include: Slow, non-answers &#124; Embargos &#124; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Embargo farrago</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:44:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Public relations (PR) officers from insurer AXA gave the trade press and the national press different embargoes for the same story on Friday. Embargoed is a small town in Wales, my old ex-national newspaper editor used to say, emphasising the “ed” sound at the end of the word. It looks like AXA’s PR people give [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday PR roast</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Accountants Ernst &#38; Young issued a press release today (Sunday) but the named PR, Vicky Conybeer, did not have access to a photo of those quoted in the release because she was not in the office. Why bother releasing it on Sunday or being the named PR if you can’t help working hacks? You get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Council tax post</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 11:44:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finally got the figures I needed – though I had to find some via a link on Local Government Chronicle’s website to the Communities department&#8217;s site (new window) that the PR had not found. Interesting that the chief PR seems to think the response “but will be Monday before I can come back to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tweeting twits</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweets from #governmentnews are so wrong the person tweeting should be taken out and shot. Journalists should avoid this site because of its inaccurate and misleading information. Yesterday, 17 January, it tweeted that new donation and funding figures for political parties had been published. This was just baloney. First the link on that tweet was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accessible web</title>
		<link>http://www.chriswheal.com/accessible-web/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing for the web means complying making your website accessible to blind or partially-sighted web users who may be using screen readers. It is not just that your site may fall foul of the Disability Discrimination Act – if you are providing services to the public – but because there are ethical and logical reasons [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blog or bog off</title>
		<link>http://www.chriswheal.com/blog-or-bog-off/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:33:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.chriswheal.com/?p=457</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the past few days I have worked from my Macbook using mobile internet connections from: The top and bottom decks of double decker buses standing up on a London commuter train Seated on a Virgin train On the overground section on a London tube In a Starbucks and a Pret Standing on Oxenholme and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I’ll be back</title>
		<link>http://www.chriswheal.com/i%e2%80%99ll-be-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 08:40:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.chriswheal.com/?p=442</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[True to the words of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s robot assassin in the Terminator, I am back and I’m blogging again. (I had complaints that I had stopped blogging – thanks for those.) I have been busy. Most recently I have been paid to blog. I am now lead blogger on a new AOL-owned website called Daily [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scarisbrick hell</title>
		<link>http://www.chriswheal.com/scarisbrick-hell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:11:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Southport’s Scarisbrick Hotel sums up why I hate hotels.]]></description>
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		<title>Go students go!</title>
		<link>http://www.chriswheal.com/go-students-go/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am heading for Southport for the National Union of Journalists’ (NUJ’s) Annual Delegate Meeting (ADM). In 2009 why can’t we get a Vodafone and 3G signal on a Virgin East coast train? Tomorrow I am running the NUJ student members’ conference. We should have 25 students there. A mix of students of journalism and [...]]]></description>
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