tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44733565855973531902024-03-08T06:44:00.430+00:00Robert RoesslerPublic Relations and Communications. Selection of my work - blog posts, links to press material and press coverage.Robert Roesslerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13813523745262475718noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4473356585597353190.post-46299204996549476392020-06-22T11:21:00.000+01:002020-08-05T11:28:28.672+01:00Article: Communications aim at audience of policy makersMy views for BrandZ's Global Top 100 Most Valuable Brands 2020, published in June 2020:Communications
aim at audience
of policy makersAs regulators look at emerging
technologies, such as AI, tech companies
are working to ensure that regulations
are in their favor. They believe, probably
correctly, that when it comes to creating
regulations for the tech industry, they
often have greater Robert Roesslerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13813523745262475718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4473356585597353190.post-40728148528883258042020-01-20T11:09:00.000+00:002020-08-05T11:30:09.800+01:00Campaign: The Gatekeeper's Big Day - cyber-security for kidsMy team and I used the insight that many cyber-security professionals struggle to explain to their children what it is they do at work to create a physical book which does exactly that: explain to kids what it is cyber-security professionals do at work.We worked with French cyber-security start-up Alsid an an amazing kid's book illustrator to narrate the story of a gatekeeper who prevents a thiefRobert Roesslerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13813523745262475718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4473356585597353190.post-6744098672783218882019-11-05T18:04:00.000+00:002020-06-26T14:45:56.021+01:00Blog post: We should appreciate Twitter’s decision – and encourage others to follow
Twitter’s move to ban political ads comes as the UK enters a six-week general election campaign, one that will be more influenced by social media than ever before. For various reasons – including the British November and December weather -, online will form a key element for the general election campaigns. This is a trend we have seen in UK political campaigning over the past five years, now Robert Roesslerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13813523745262475718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4473356585597353190.post-88778560229716077862019-10-21T12:30:00.000+01:002020-06-26T14:46:30.135+01:00Blog post: Tech policy and deals outside of Westminster
While Westminster once more turns to the government’s Brexit deal, there have been interesting deals and dealings in technology this past week. US private equity company Thoma Bravo acquired Oxfordshire-based cybersecurity firm Sophos for £3.1 billion. This acquisition can be interpreted as both and bad news for UK businesses. The ability to create a strong company so that it attracts Robert Roesslerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13813523745262475718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4473356585597353190.post-48051999795296242802019-10-08T17:18:00.000+01:002020-06-26T14:46:52.111+01:00Blog post: The commitment has been made – but we need more to add fibre to our diet
The Government is in determined election mode, only with no election to fight, for now. While the Prime Minister and his senior colleagues make their appearance at the nation’s hospitals, it is in areas like infrastructure and technology that are also receiving the attention of Ministers. The recent announcement that the Government is planning to support full-fibre rollout with £5 billion&Robert Roesslerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13813523745262475718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4473356585597353190.post-92231322011593715042019-09-16T17:16:00.000+01:002020-06-26T14:47:14.342+01:00Blog post: Honestly, a vote for technology can be a vote for good
The Great Hack left me a little bruised. The Netflix documentary which explores Cambridge Analytica’s use of data in elections throws up a lot of questions. Was data misused and the public misled in the run up to the Brexit referendum? The fact that the answer is not a straight No should be enough reason for concern, and a clear call to action to look much more closely at our Robert Roesslerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13813523745262475718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4473356585597353190.post-70096411438665698402019-06-11T16:02:00.000+01:002020-05-18T16:04:05.020+01:00Article: Brands should stress societal benefits of 5G
My views for BrandZ's 2019 Telecom Insights:
"With Donald Trump’s earlier call for 6G signals, we should reflect on whether the current hype around the “Gs” helps telecom providers—or not. They now focus on speed, with the promise that 5G will be great for gaming and watching movies. While this is true, it creates a dilemma: We are becoming more concerned with digital wellbeing and are tryingRobert Roesslerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13813523745262475718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4473356585597353190.post-16045479541349258702019-05-03T17:13:00.000+01:002020-06-25T18:01:08.543+01:00Blog post: The solace of secure quantum computing
“The only way to beat a machine is with another machine.” – Alan Turing
A recent story that physicists reversed time using quantum computing immediately grabbed my attention. It is a great read about how scientists restored a quantum computer to the state it had been in a moment earlier. I find this mind-blowing and confusing in a nice way, and there has been a fascinating debate Robert Roesslerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13813523745262475718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4473356585597353190.post-69751773928549625292018-12-21T08:30:00.000+00:002019-01-09T12:40:53.842+00:00Mention: PR Place December 2018PR Place quoted me and my recent blog post on the future of cash in their weekly summary:
https://www.prplace.com/blog/posts/2018/december/this-week-in-pr-21-december/Robert Roesslerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13813523745262475718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4473356585597353190.post-39107233747160803432018-12-18T12:33:00.000+00:002020-08-05T12:18:58.285+01:00Blog post: Going, going, gone: the future of cashI love thinking about my 1980s family holidays in Italy. Weeks spent on beaches, in ice cream shops, pizzerias and gaming arcades. Phone calls back home were strictly kept to three minutes as they were so ridiculously expensive. Everything was paid in cash. I remember how excited I felt when I was a Lira millionaire. It was exotic and precious.
As you can see, I have a very emotional attachment Robert Roesslerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13813523745262475718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4473356585597353190.post-19262083937220953252018-07-03T00:30:00.000+01:002019-01-09T12:52:14.236+00:00Article: Telecoms must stress how they make life betterTelecom providers go through another challenging year of competition, consolidation and contraction. To be successful, telcos need to focus on other c-words: providing compelling and unique content, adjusting to consumption patterns and delivering convenience to consumers.
To do this, they will need to re-define their place in the era of tech giants that are diversifying in the experiences Robert Roesslerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13813523745262475718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4473356585597353190.post-81596694257446051282018-01-10T17:08:00.000+00:002019-11-15T17:12:45.880+00:00 Blog post: Alice in Blockchains-Land: In it for the money
Regrets, I’ve had a few. Maybe too few to mention, but there are still a few: I started looking into Bitcoin at around 2011, when its value was around $2.
I found the concept fascinatingly anarchistic and considered buying 50 BTC, to see how it worked. I thought too long about where I could legally spend Bitcoin. As BTC’s value crept up to $30 and I still had not managed to work out how to use Robert Roesslerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13813523745262475718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4473356585597353190.post-72978759676163303572014-06-30T10:02:00.000+01:002016-09-08T10:04:20.620+01:00Mention: Smart Investor 6/2014 – LondonSmart Investor quoted me extensively in an article about living and working in London, published in June 2014. Here's the article (in German):
http://www.smartinvestor.de/hintergrund/smart-investor-62014-londonRobert Roesslerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13813523745262475718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4473356585597353190.post-82536854941877519622014-02-13T12:05:00.000+00:002014-02-28T12:14:21.842+00:00Mention: Hill & Knowlton Strategies UK, TechnologyHill & Knowlton Strategies UK announced my appointment on 13 February 2014. Here's the announcement on the H+K website:
http://www.hkstrategies.co.uk/latest/news/robert-roessler-joins-hillandknowlton-strategies-technology-team-as-an-associate-director.aspx
Picked up by Gorkana and Zenopa:
http://www.gorkana.com/news/people-news/people-news/h-k-boosts-tech-team/
https://Robert Roesslerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13813523745262475718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4473356585597353190.post-33618719506960171792014-01-14T14:46:00.000+00:002014-01-16T14:53:38.765+00:00Blog post: The times for banks they are a-changin'2013 was not great for financial institutions: The British Social Attitudes report revealed that only 19% of the UK population think that financial institutions are well run. This makes the banking sector bottom of the league and is a far cry from 1987 when public trust in banks was higher than 90%, writes Robert Roessler.It is too simplified to blame Lehmann, Libor and PPI mis-selling aloneRobert Roesslerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13813523745262475718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4473356585597353190.post-70875246236347835652013-12-16T10:22:00.000+00:002013-12-16T10:22:30.765+00:00Blog post: PC Harrington and what PRs can learn from fraudsters
I nearly became a fraud victim yesterday. Nearly, because I didn’t. But it was very close.
I received a call on my landline at around 11.30pm yesterday from PC Harrington at Holborn Police Station. PC Harrington gave me an internal police identification number and said that they had just arrested two men who skimmed my debit card to raid my bank account. The police found £1,200 when they Robert Roesslerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13813523745262475718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4473356585597353190.post-56204012660785851032013-12-13T12:56:00.000+00:002020-08-05T12:19:25.456+01:00Blog post: The Rise of Bitcoin
Back in March 2013, Bitcoin reached an
all-time trading high of more than £21. At that time, this was seen as a major
development for the alternative currency which was launched in 2009, largely
unnoticed outside the crypto-currency world. Since then, the situation has
changed dramatically. What was seen as hype in March has now developed into a
frenzy.
By the beginning of April, one Robert Roesslerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13813523745262475718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4473356585597353190.post-62756063030006271662013-11-29T12:12:00.000+00:002013-12-16T10:31:35.618+00:00Blog post: The week in the media: Trading & Technology
This week was good for Bitcoin as its value soared to an all-time high of more than $1,000 on Thursday. Its worth has doubled since a US Senate committee hearing earlier this month backed Bitcoin as a legitimate financial service. Launched in 2009, the alternative currency can be traded anonymously and freely worldwide and is increasingly seen as an efficient way of handling global Robert Roesslerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13813523745262475718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4473356585597353190.post-84282419769768865792013-05-08T18:07:00.000+01:002020-08-05T12:19:35.170+01:00Blog post: Perception is bitcoin’s biggest battle
Along with the general media attention bitcoin has attracted in recent months, there’s been much talk about whether bitcoin is merely a tool for financial speculation … or is a currency as real as any other, capable of being used to buy and sell goods, as well as for investment purposes.The media frenzy accompanying the bitcoin roller-coaster of late has resulted in a surge of demand. Robert Roesslerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13813523745262475718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4473356585597353190.post-5651446346613761282013-03-01T11:49:00.000+00:002020-08-05T12:19:44.298+01:00Blog post: 7 things you thought you knew about Bitcoin (but that are wrong)
Bitcoin has made headlines again yesterday, reaching an all-time
trading high of more than £21. This is a significant
development for the fairly new alternative currency, which started at Zero in
2009. Bitcoins has slowly and quietly become a global phenomenon which is
featured prominently in the media, and has started to attract the special
attention of global regulators.
So how exactlyRobert Roesslerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13813523745262475718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4473356585597353190.post-62733394763612300942013-02-12T11:41:00.000+00:002013-03-12T11:44:18.598+00:00Blog post: Twitter & American Express introduce “pay with a tweet”: the future of e-commerce?
The announcement that Twitter now offers a fully integrated payments service on its platform via American Express doesn’t come as a real surprise. The logical extension of both companies’ existing collaboration just makes sense, and is in fact good news.
The US card mogul started integrating with major social networks a while ago, including Facebook and Twitter. Amex’ Twitter Robert Roesslerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13813523745262475718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4473356585597353190.post-91107801366527139582013-02-06T13:17:00.000+00:002020-08-05T12:20:00.382+01:00Blog post: Amazon Coins proves that virtual currencies (real threat or not) are here to stay
Amazon’s announced today that it will launch Amazon Coins in May 2013. Clients will be able to purchase apps on Kindle Fire with Amazon’s proprietary virtual currency. Amazon Coins, which are planned to be launched in May, will be pegged to the US dollar and can be bought using existing Amazon accounts.It’s a move that breathes new life into virtual currencies. At last, as some Robert Roesslerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13813523745262475718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4473356585597353190.post-7566596938228162192013-01-04T13:18:00.001+00:002020-12-04T13:54:49.977+00:00Mention: Top 10 influencers in European emerging paymentsI am mentioned as one of the top 10 influencers in European emerging payments by Terrapinn.
Published 4 January 2013, read the full article here: (Archived)http://blogs.terrapinn.com/total-payments/2013/01/04/top-10-influencers-european-emerging-payments/Robert Roesslerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13813523745262475718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4473356585597353190.post-38526674624508740342012-12-07T13:24:00.000+00:002013-02-11T13:24:46.994+00:00Blog post: Get up, start-up. Stand up for your rights!
Get up, start-up. Stand up for your rights!
European technology currently is in good shape. Skype and LinkedIn are profitable, and Cambridge’s ARM has shipped more chips in 2012 than Intel in its entire history.Magister Advisors recently predicted that in 2013 at least one “new” technology firm in Europe will achieve a $1bn value. Candidates include small loan provider Wonga, e-payments Robert Roesslerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13813523745262475718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4473356585597353190.post-27496194781922391642012-04-24T13:57:00.000+01:002020-08-05T12:20:35.117+01:00Blog post: Digital Currencies: No Threat to Their Real Counterparts - Yet, PYMNTS.COM
There has been much speculation about the fate of the Euro over recent months. Maybe a bit too much as it is difficult to predict (and tiring to hear) what will or will not happen to a currency which is still in its youth, in historical terms. These recent developments in the currency arena however have prompted a renewed focus on alternative currencies, so let’s take a look at these – their Robert Roesslerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13813523745262475718noreply@blogger.com0