Day: 8 November 2017

CIPR publishes interactive ethics podcast

Stuart Mitchell

The CIPR has published a new interactive podcast – as part of their Ethics Festival – to promote ethical conduct and help public relations professionals tackle ethical dilemmas.  The podcast features three fictional scenarios designed to stimulate thought and inspire ethical decision making. Each scene is followed by an analysis from Professor Anne Gregory Hon FCIPR and Donald Steel FCIPR. Suitable for individual use or group work, the podcast can be paused to allow discussion between scenarios. Eva Maclaine FCIPR, Vice-Chair of the CIPR Professional Practices Committee states: “in many…

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Top LA directors show dangers of using mobiles while driving

Stuart Mitchell

The directors behind the video for Pharrell Williams’ hit song Happy have teamed up with THINK! for its latest road safety campaign, aimed at cutting the numbers of people killed or injured by drivers using mobile phones. ‘We Are From LA’ directed the new video, which will run online, in cinemas and on social media from 25 October 2017. It uses innovative filming, is shot in the style of a music video with an edgy soundtrack from celebrated musician Aphex Twin and numerous pink kittens to highlight how much drivers…

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Tesla installs Powerpack and Powerwall batteries at hospital in Puerto Rico

Stuart Mitchell

On October the 5th Elon Musk replied to someone asking if Tesla‘s solar powered technology could be used to help rebuild the power supply system in Puerto Riico, he replied: The Tesla team has done this for many smaller islands around the world, but there is no scalability limit, so it can be done for Puerto Rico too. Such a decision would be in the hands of the PR govt, PUC, any commercial stakeholders and, most importantly, the people of PR. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 5, 2017 This prompted …

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Garvan and The Vodafone Foundation launch #OurDreamJob Campaign

Stuart Mitchell

The Garvan Institute of Medical Research and The Vodafone Foundation has announced that now millions of Australians with a smartphone can put their phone to work to help fight cancer – while they sleep. The DreamLab app, which is now available on iOS and Android, works by combining the processing power of Australian mobile devices with an internet connection to create the world’s first distributed smartphone supercomputer for cancer research. Celebrities, politicians, CEOs and – most importantly – everyday Australians are set to embrace the app as their ‘DreamJob’; a…

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Charities Join Forces to Change the Lives of Animals and People

Stuart Mitchell

The Jackson Galaxy Foundation has joined GreaterGood.org. As part of the new partnership, The Jackson Galaxy Foundation will now be known as The Jackson Galaxy Project, and will join other distinguished initiatives as a GreaterGood.org signature program. Rooted in the goal to better the lives of animals at risk and the people who care for them, the program was founded by Jackson Galaxy, animal advocate, cat expert and host of Animal Planet’s hit show My Cat From Hell.   “We began collaborating with Jackson Galaxy about three years ago, to…

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