Media-Insert Communications

Media-Insert Communications

The blog of Media-Insert Communications – featuring freelance P.R. and journalism links to the work of Graham A. Jarvis.

Editing, Journalism, Copywriting, and Public Relations

Category: Clients, Past and Present

  • Customers need to shop anytime and from any device these days. If your e-commerce website goes down your competitors could profit from your troubles. The whole point in having an e-commerce site is to offer customers the ability to access your products and services even when your physical store is closed. So the cost of…

  • South Sudan's fledgling universities need money – and educated young people – to survive. Graham Jarvis reports. No sooner had the celebrations that followed the Republic of South Sudan's independence from its northern neighbour in July last year died down than the country's fledgling government found itself facing serious challenges, a number of them education-related.…

  • Republicans at loggerheads with Democrats and Moody's over retrenchment. Graham Jarvis writes In common with many US states in recent months, Florida has slashed its higher education budget, cutting $300 million (£191 million) in a bid to help tackle its fiscal deficit. The move will force Florida's 11 public universities to dig into their reserves,…

  • Read my article for FSTech magazine on how technology can help financial institutions to develop and manage effective risk management strategies. Published on 18th June 2012.

  • Read the PDF version of my article for FSTech magazine about Spanish bank BBVA's adoption of Google's cloud technology to improve staff collaboration. Published on 24th April 2012.

  • Security is often touted as the reason why organisations aren't moving over to cloud computing. Banks are among them, but not because they are reticent about the advantages that it can bring them – many of them use private clouds anyway. In fact, stringent industry regulation and regulatory compliance are creating an actual or perceived…

  • The question of whether differences arise when implementing technology in an Islamic bank in comparison to one that operates under a Western ‘conventional' model attracts a mixed and sometimes contradictory response. There are clearly some similarities: the goal of achieving high levels of customer satisfaction and the need to deliver increases in sales and profitability…

  • Banks now say they have entered an age of customer engagement with the rise of technologies like social media, location-based services, online and mobile banking. The claim that they have only just entered an era where they need to engage with their customers seems to be a bizarre suggestion. No business can thrive or even…

  • State to consult public, staff and students over disputed university reforms. Graham Jarvis writes. In November, 600,000 Colombian students walked out of lectures in protest at what they saw as the increasing privatisation of higher education in the country…read more here. Published by Times Higher Education on 12th April 2012.

  • Since November 2011 companies working in the equity, bond, financial and commodity derivatives markets have had to comply with the Financial Services Authority's rules that require them to record all 'relevant communications' and store them for six months to prevent any professional misconduct or illegal activities like insider trading from taking place….read more here. Published…