Celebrity

The announcement yesterday morning that the Duchess of Cambridge had gone into labour generated extensive and excessive chatter on social media channels.

Last night I joined some other brave (read stupid) people in a pop-up restaurant in the crypt at St Andrews Church in Holborn for some unusual dining hosted by Gr

Possibly every reader of this blog works for, supports or is involved with an incredible cause doing exceptional things. But all of us at one time or another have struggled to the get the media onside to help us tell what we know are truly powerful and engaging stories.

There are lots of resources dedicated to helping us write better press releases and leveraging social networks but I’d like to share a slightly different view; one that accepts the media machine has an agenda, objectives and targets to meet just like the rest of us. Therefore, isn’t it prudent to perhaps accept that this is the case and try to leverage the situation to ensure our stories are the ones that get shared? 

Fundraisers don't often get good press. You all know that you're often met with a wary joke about 'hope you won't be asking me for money' if you tell someone what your job is.

Zoopla Purple Plaques is a new scheme to “identify and recognise properties where current celebrities have lived in the past”. Check out www.zoopla.co.uk/purpleplaques for this free resource.

The Royal Wedding of HRH Prince William and Kate Middleton on 29 April is the opportunity for plenty of fundraising. Here are some of the initiatives we've spotted. What have we missed?

The Digital Death campaign earlier this month for the Keep a Child Alive Foundation raised $950,000 in under a week using a combination of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

I daresay I wasn’t the only one to be a bit surprised to read of the recent £1,000,000 donation that the actor Ricky Tomlinson (Royle Family, etc) made to Ronald McDonald House.

Never knowingly underdone, the build up to the 2010 World Cup seems to have gone on forever in England.

I once saw an extremely funny American comedian who explained that the only way you could ever hope to be cured of a major disease was if someone famous also had it.