Royal Wedding (sorry…)

04.28.11 Posted in Blog, Random by Granny Apples

It seems like everyone is talking about the Royal Wedding, so we thought we would have our say as well (again, apologies). Like our predictions for 2011, we have decided to take a few punts on details for tomorrow. So here goes… Kate will wear her hair up and with a sparkly sparkly tiara. The [...]


A total stitch-up

04.20.11 Posted in Blog, Open Road, Random by Granny Apples

Open Road HQ recently moved into a much larger office and the decorating committee was given free rein with one of the new meeting rooms. The theme ‘Hunting Lodge’ was chosen by Rosie and Debs who also came up with the idea to cross stitch (which is cool again btw) and frame our ‘Brainstorm Rules’ [...]


Geeks’ corner: Foodily

04.19.11 Posted in Blog by De Vos

For those food lovers amongst you (and there are many here at Open Road), this might be the perfect social networking site for you. It’s called Foodily and claims to be the world’s largest recipe network, bringing together recipes from across the web. Simply go on the site and search for recipes which contain whatever [...]


You May Have Missed: A Very Messy Infographic

04.15.11 Posted in Blog, Random by openroad

From now on, we’ll be posting a weekly digest of interesting stories linked to our industry which you may have missed during the week.  This week we’re serving up articles on the scepticism of new MPs towards Early-Day Motions; the perceived ‘death’ of check-ins; the press launch of the latest series of Britain’s Got Talent; [...]


Andrew Lansley: Some pro-bono PR advice

04.14.11 Posted in Blog, Media and PR, Politics and Public Affairs by Helen Davison

If politics is the art of persuasion then Andrew Lansley must be among its “least skilful practitioners” is the view of The Daily Telegraph today, after the Health Secretary was handed a crushing vote of no confidence by the Royal College of Nursing. Lansley is facing a communications crisis on an enormous scale, having failed [...]