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.

Graham Jarvis MA - Editor, Journalist, Copywriter, and P.R. Consultant.
Email: gajarvis@media-insert.com
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Editing, Journalism, Copywriting, and Public Relations

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Graham Jarvis MA is a freelance business and technology journalist. He is the former freelance editor of the newsletter of the Chartered Institute of Marketing’s Technology Group (CIMTech International), The Marketing Leaders, TheWhereBusiness (MforMobile), and has guest edited other online magazines – including BT Insightexec and mycustomer.com (now CX Today). He writes for publications such as AV Buyer, World Finance, Fintech Futures, Data Center Dynamics, Business Aviation Insider, and The Stack. His work, either in his own name or ghosted appears in wide range of IT magazines – such as Digitalisation World. Graham has also written for Aerospace Testing International, Business Airport International, Wards Auto, Wards Intelligence, TU Automotive (now integrated into Wards Auto), Information Age, ComputerWeekly, i-CIO, CloudPro, CIO, Banking Technology, Financial Director, FS Tech, Education Executive, Times Higher Education, Customer Focus and Startups. His freelance journalism and P.R work is widely published online, in magazines, newspapers, and books in the UK and abroad. He has also written copy for the likes of Vodafone, Microsoft, BT, and HP. Topics Covered Over the years he has covered, for example, the following topics: Business Aviation, Aerospace Testing and Compliance, World Finance, Connected and Autonomous Vehicles, Electric Vehicles, Automotive Powertrains, Intelligent Mobility, Smart Cities, Marketing, Information Communications Technology (e.g. artificial intelligence, machine learning, SD-WANs, WAN Acceleration), Financial Services, Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, Job-seeking, Global financial markets, FinTech, InsurTech, Insurance, Economics, International Relations, Human Resources, Legal Marketing, and Education (from primary to higher education). Graham helped the Institute of Direct Marketing to write and research 3 modules of its B2B Marketing qualifications at the end of 2006 and at the beginning of 2007. He wrote about Customer Relationship Management for the IDM Marketing Guide. Visiting Lectureships He is also available for hire as a visiting lecturer, having worked in this capacity with Kingston University and the London School of Accountancy and Management. He has taught journalism, change management, and tourism management.

Category: Web/Tech

  • Councils: getting better but slow at improving website accessibility

    “Councils are getting better but not quickly enough!” Says Martin Greenwood, SOCITM’s Insight Programme Manager, who believes that Councils could still do better and make their websites more accessible. Yet local authority sites have achieved an overall 25% improvement by reducing the number of technical errors across the sector. These errors may have often been…

  • Do you have a good website design that isn’t accessible?

    A whitepaper by the UK’s Cabinet Office e-Government Unit, ‘Public Sector Web Accessibility Standards?’ by Tom Adams – a senior digital media consultant, highlights one of the key reasons why public organisations and even private companies should work hard to make their websites accessible to a wide variety of users, particularly those who’d normally find…

  • Dorset’s Accessible self-service on the web

    Dorset County Council is getting the most out its resources by moving its ‘customers’ to the web. Therefore it is viewed as essential to make sure that its website not only performs well, in terms of speed and the provision of relevant content, but that it is also is fully website accessibility compliant. Martin Bottomley,…

  • A Guide to the BSi’s PAS 78; the New Website

    The new Publicly Available Specification (PAS 78) for accessible website content design and development will fill a void created by a lack of clarity within the Disability Discrimination Act, which seems to allow everyone to make up their own interpretation of what is an accessible website. This legislation fails to make the W3C’s guidelines into…

  • A Short Guide To A Useable and Accessible Website

    Nottingham-based e-Government Standards Body consultant on website accessibility of EIBS, Matt Gemmell, provides some useful tips for establishing best practices in this area in his presentation, ‘Guidelines for creating attractive, accessible and useable websites’. He also provides some pointers into local government websites, and perhaps others within the commercial sector, can be both accessible and…

  • Search engines, disclaimers and website accessibility

    UK Companies selling financial products on the Internet have one major problem: they have a legal duty to provide detailed information) about their offerings; such as mortgages, loans and so forth, but it is very difficult for search engines to provide all of the required information in their search results (e.g. disclaimers and terms and…

  • How how has SiteMorse helped British Airways?

    "SiteMorse has helped to give us a measure of our overall performance against similar companies in the FTSE; those reports are very useful and we can compare ourselves with other e-commerce sites. We have improved our website’s download speeds, and eliminated the errors; so the quality of the site since we first looked at it…

  • MMS – following the pattern

    Everyone recognises the pattern. A new technology is launched and generates excitement. Then comes the hype, quickly followed by disillusionment. Finally, for any technology with value, we discover how and where it provides useful solutions to real needs. It happened with the Internet and it happened with WAP. MMS (Multi-media Messaging Service) seems to be…