Tweet of the Week

09.30.11 Posted in Digital, Media and PR, Politics and Public Affairs, Random by openroad

When we at Open Road Towers saw that the ever game Ed Miliband was having another shot at #AskEdM we just knew we were going to have a field day picking a Tweet of the Week. I am happy to say that we were not disappointed. #AskEdM proves once and for all that Miliband Junior [...]


Good PR

09.30.11 Posted in Blog, Media and PR, Random by India Melhuish

Rock legends Pink Floyd this week played a blinder to mark the reissue of their 14 studio albums. Recreating the iconic Animals album cover by flying a helium-filled pig over Battersea Power Station, they caused an awful lot of excitement on the Twittersphere and poured fuel on the flames rumouring an albeit unlikely reunion. The [...]


MP and journo of the week

09.30.11 Posted in Blog, Open Road, Politics and Public Affairs, Random by Helen Davison

After a relatively lacklustre set of performances at the Labour Party Conference, there was only really one stand out MP this week; step forward Jim Murphy. His anti-cuts speech went down well with the party faithful while his attempt to reposition Labour as the party of the forces could help to win votes at a time [...]


The Holiday Inn is reading your tweets

09.30.11 Posted in Blog, Media and PR, Open Road, Random by Penelope

This is going to be a very rare thing – a post on Labour Party Conference in Liverpool with no mention of Ed, Harriet et al. Instead this is a post about the Holiday Inn, Liverpool. (NB. This has not become a hotel review blog, you’ll be pleased to hear). Some members of Open Road [...]


Monthly News Round-up

09.29.11 Posted in Blog, Digital, Media and PR, Open Road, Politics and Public Affairs, Random by Rebecca Reilly

Well, what a month it’s been. News has generally been dominated by banking, finance and politics. No massive change there then. First up is UBS’s rogue trader – Kweku Adoboli is 2011’s Nick Leeson and it should therefore come as no surprise that they also have a law firm in common. The massive trade forced [...]