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

  • The unemployment rate in the U.S. may have hit a four year low. U.S. government sources are claiming that the initial claims for unemployment benefits have fallen by 5,000 applications to a seasonally adjusted figure of 348,000; but this doesn’t mean that customers have become more open to spending more money. Yet it is good…

  • Does the industry need a new body looking at the clearing and settlement issues raised by new regulation? The London-based Financial Services Club thinks it does, and has set up a clearing and settlement working group…

  • In recent years banks have been a target for criticism, ridicule and vehemence. They are, for example, said to be slow and reluctant to innovate. Read more in Banking Technology. Published on 8th February 2012.

  • Managing digital assets is an important consideration for enterprises – does cloud help this process? Read more on CloudPro… Published on 17th January 2012.

  • During harder economic times, many law firms have had to find cost-effective ways to gain new business, using a depleted marketing budget. Although some practice areas experience more activity during a downturn, most firms have to adapt to it to survive and grow. The experts who were interviewed for…..read more on The Law Society Gazette.…

  • Moving to the cloud is not always straightforward but a proper testing programme could minimise risk. The rush towards cloud seems to be unstoppable. Research company IDC estimates that spending on public cloud IT services is set to increase from $21.5bn to $72.9bn in 2015. However, a quickly-moving market like cloud computing is going to…

  • Upgrades can spell trouble for companies so companies moving to the cloud have to be especially wary. In October, Blackberry users around the world got to know first-hand how frustrating downtime can be. Millions of Blackberry users found that they couldn’t do much more with their handsets than make voice calls. Read more on CloudPro.…

  • The banking sector is one of the most highly regulated and risk averse industries in existence today, so it shouldn’t be a surprise that the pace of innovation – whether technological or otherwise – can seem quite slow. Resistance to change is a dangerous stance. If an incumbent doesn’t respond to changes in customer and…

  • Using the cloud to improve collaboration among your workforce is the way to go, just follow some simple rules Email has for a long time been the main tool for collaborating on various business projects, but the cloud provides an opportunity to do more than just send someone a document and then wait for a…

  • Websites that buckle under the demand placed on them could benefit from being based in the cloud. Questions need answering Bryan Foss, a visiting professor at Bristol Business School and an independent commercial and public sector board level advisor, asks some poignant questions about how UCAS determined the amount of demand that was expected. He…