Electronic marketing: A recurring question from organisations is whether they can send emails to individuals who have opted out of marketing to ask them if they would like to opt back in. Is that request, in itself, “marketing”? How should marketing consents be refreshed in advance of the General Data Protection Regulation? Recent monetary penalty […]
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Can the power of the mind change your life?
Mindfulness: It’s by no means claiming a breakthrough in dealing with stress, but a new business in Scotland will be launched to a packed audience this week. The Mindful Enterprise aims to encourage corporate leaders and executives to reflect as much on the strength of their own mind as spread-sheets and sales pitches in order […]
Interview: Simon Andrews, Fraunhofer Institute
A quantum of solutions: There was a time when academia and business were regarded as odd bedfellows, mutually suspicious of each other’s motives and not always able to see eye to eye. Companies did their own research and university scientists were paid to develop ideas that often never got beyond the test tube. These days, […]
Men looking good in exhibition of self-image
Art and photo exhibition: The evolution of men’s fashion, masculine identity and the male self-image over the last 500 years is the subject of an exhibition which has opened at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Looking Good: The Male Gaze from Van Dyck to Lucian Freud explores how men have indulged their enthusiasm for fashionable clothes, careful […]
Grant in person and on screen at EIFF
Edinburgh International Film Festival: Actor Richard E Grant breezed into the Edinburgh Filmhouse today to promote his part in this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival. He was in the city to talk about his career and promote his role in the black comedy How To Get Ahead In Advertising. He made his name in the now now-iconic […]