Snippets The Federal Coalition has committed itself to several inquiries, reviews and white papers if it wins government at the coming federal election. This Barton Deakin brief outlines the nature and scope of each proposed inquiry: BD Briefs: Summary of Proposed Coalition Inquiries Porter Novelli wins the Panasonic account Lisa Hresc has been appointed to the role of Head Marketing & Communications, ABC Commercial UK agency creates book of top PR ideas, called The PR Moment: http://issuu.com/prmoment/docs/ioty_2nd_ed_low_res?e=8259649/3710404 Ex editor of news.com.au, David Higgins, moves into a Social Media role, with responsibility for marketing the corporate message for subscription TV platform Foxtel. Jo Liddell leaves OMD and starts role with experiential PR agency Rinsed as Managing Director. PRs: looking for AE job? “make us love you” in 1 Tweet said @PN_Sydney #PR #socialCV ‐ plenty of negative comments on Twitter slamming Porter Novelli, but the media coverage meant thousands saw the tweet. Sadly, the deadline was 14th July, but we’re sure they’ll be another soon. A great idea.
Account wins
Thrive PR wins Temple & Webster account Online homewares and furniture retailer, Temple & Webster, has appointed thrive PR + communications to handle its national PR account and integrated PR communications. Temple & Webster is a members‐only online retailer, which features daily sales events offering a variety of homewares and furniture from over 300 Australian retailers and suppliers. In the past 12 months, Temple & Webster has offered over 25,000 individual homewares products for sale in over 1,000 sale events with prices at up to 70 per cent off retail.
Text100 wins BlackBerry account Text 100 has commenced work on the BlackBerry campaign in Australia and NZ following the appointment of Text100 and APCO as BlackBerry’s global agency of record. On the enterprise side of the business, Text100 is also pleased to announce winning three new enterprise clients, cybersecurity expert Websense, application usage management company Flexera Software and IT management software company SolarWinds.