by Nadine Dereza | Dec 10, 2014 | Live Events, Presenting, Tips and Ideas
As the PS Programmes team likes to keep its finger on the pulse, we allowed Tom York to slip free from his PR and social media handcuffs and attend the Enterprise Nation #GovernmentExchange event this week. There are a few things we have been discussing that we think...
by Nadine Dereza | Nov 27, 2014 | Live Events, Presenting, Tips and Ideas
The inhabitants of PS Programmes Towers have had entrepreneurship and freelancing on their minds of late: Tom has been to the National Freelancers Day event at LSO St Luke’s, and Ian has been talking about the ups, downs and sideways of being a freelance writer to...
by Nadine Dereza | Oct 27, 2014 | Live Events, Presenting, Tips and Ideas
Monica Lewinsky’s speech to the Forbes Under 30 Conference this week coincided with a trip by Ian Hawkins, one of the PS Programmes team to New York City. Lewinsky, even today, is something of an enigma. A public figure – who hasn’t spoken in public for over a...
by Nadine Dereza | Oct 12, 2014 | Live Events, Presenting, Tips and Ideas
This serious-minded and business-oriented blog may be your first port of call for thoughtful discourse on the current trends in communications and public affairs, but that doesn’t mean we don’t know how to let our hair down, and this week, we had a great...
by Nadine Dereza | Sep 25, 2014 | Live Events, Presenting, Tips and Ideas
By a strange coincidence, the leader of the Labour Party, Ed Miliband faced the nightmare that according to our recent survey, most terrifies people: he forgot a key part of his speech. Normally forgetting your words isn’t a big deal, we tell clients. Only the...
by Nadine Dereza | Aug 15, 2014 | Live Events, Presenting, Tips and Ideas
‘Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.’ Alfred Austin, Poet Laureate. Surveys – be they on issues of vital importance or profound triviality – are a seemingly endless source of intrigue: are you in or...