Here at Swordplay, we’re devotees of WealthBriefing, run by the wealth industry veteran Stephen Harris. So it is with interest that we note the launch of a related venture – WealthConnect. Billed as “the only online networking community dedicated entirely to the world of wealth management”, the site went live this week and already has [...]
Blade is no fan of soap operas, but surely divorcing one’s spouse for watching them is going a little too far?
Not, according to this story from Twitter, in Sudan, where a man arrived home, found his wife watching a soap, and promptly initiated divorce proceedings.
The moral might be that if you’re female, married and devoted [...]
Here at Swordplay we like to ponder the meaning behind the message, the medium behind the meaning, and the message of the medium. This world class ad, which Blade encountered during a happy foray onto Limited Fun, strikes us as just about as good as it gets. And what’s more, it means just one thing.
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The Times reports today on the pros and cons of blogging for lawyers. The piece can be found by clicking here.
Likewise, Spada today publishes its latest White Paper. Entitled The Laity Bytes Back?, the White Paper notes the hesitant embrace of the Web 2.0 world by the UK professions but urges that they seize the [...]
Ever wondered what your colleagues earn but been too scared to ask? Be fearful no more, for help is at hand. The Times reports today on Glassdoor.com, set up in the US two months ago. Glassdoor carries salary entries and company reviews written – anonymously – by current and former employees. It’ll be focusing on [...]
Southampton FC score a PR own goal
Is Google Street View a good thing?
Skype: coming to a courtroom near you?
Released almost a year ago, Spada’s groundbreaking research report, British Professions Today, is available for free download
In this article, Gavin Ingham Brooke and Rohit Grover of Spada examine the importance of marketing and PR in a downturn.
In the latest of our series of white papers, Spada Research examines trends in environmental reporting.
It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion.
Edmund Burke, from the Preface to Brissot’s Address.