Simon Wakeman - marketing, public relations and digital communications

Monthly archive: August 2008

London 2012 and that Hindley image

Monday, August 25th, 2008 at 7:42 am

Why issues management, environmental awareness and common sense are vital when producing promotional materials.

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Categories: Advertising, Ethics, Marketing, Public relations, Public sector

Ether-Ray PR survey

Friday, August 22nd, 2008 at 6:56 am

Ether-Ray is running a survey of public relations professionals.

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Categories: Public relations

My three inspirational communicators

Friday, August 22nd, 2008 at 6:46 am

Here are my three top communicators as part of Don’t Panic’s meme.

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Categories: Blogging, General, Public relations

Jargon, plain English and local government

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 at 9:44 pm

Is “worklessness” really plain English, or am I being unnecessarily pedantic?

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Categories: Copywriting, Public sector

Latest trends in UK media consumption

Monday, August 18th, 2008 at 5:46 am

Ofcom’s latest Communications Market report provides a great insignt into the UK’s changing patterns of media consumption.

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Categories: Marketing, Public relations, Statistics, research and analysis

Teaching social media on university PR courses

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008 at 6:36 am

How social media should be taught on public relations degree courses.

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Categories: Public relations, Social media

Mobile GPS location sharing with Yahoo! Fire Eagle and Map My Tracks

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 at 11:01 pm

Map My Tracks now works seamlessly with Yahoo! Fire Eagle to provide real-time live GPS tracking from your mobile phone.

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Categories: Mobile, Social media

Geo-targetting web advertising

Monday, August 11th, 2008 at 6:59 am

Web advertising campaigns can be targeted to specific areas, but how is this done and how accurate is it?

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Categories: Marketing, Social media

Public sector workers say go social

Thursday, August 7th, 2008 at 6:16 am

A new study looking at social media and local government is consistent with the findings of my CIPR research on the same topic.

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Categories: CIPR Diploma, Public relations, Public sector, Social media

Whose job is social media in organisations?

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 at 6:46 am

Shel Holtz has a great post about the debate over where responsibility for social media lies in organisations.

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Categories: Blogging, Podcasting, Public relations, Social media

Could planned communications have helped?

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 at 7:12 pm

How could better public relations have improved the announcement of changes to vehicle excise duty?

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Categories: Public relations, Public sector

Richard Stokoe on local government public relations

Monday, August 4th, 2008 at 9:55 pm

Why is public relations in local government so defensive?

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Categories: Public relations, Public sector

Escaping from CIPR studies

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008 at 9:53 pm

I had disappeared. Now I’m back, thanks to eventually completing my CIPR diploma.

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Categories: Blogging, CIPR Diploma, News, Personal development

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