Civil servant Steph Gray is steering clear of blogging and using Twitter during the purdah period for the forthcoming general election. I’m thinking about whether I should the same.

I’m running social media training courses for public sector communicators in Manchester and Cardiff soon.

Help us make the Transformed By You innovation event a real success this March.

Expressing clear objectives and providing meaningful evaluation of PR is vital.

A live mix from my student DJ days in Nottingham in the late 90s.

Charity Comms is running a social marketing conference aimed at helping charity communicators learn more about social marketing and how to apply it in their organisations.

The short history of my last decade.

Exploring the role of behavioural theories in delivering effective communications.

Analysis of four different social media policies that help staff know the boundaries for using social media.

Follow the conference live here.

Taking on a new role as Head of Communications and Marketing at Medway.

Voting has been extended in the elections for CIPR President Elect 2010.

A bid for CIPR members’ support from Paul Mylrea MCIPR, Director of Communications for the Department for International Development

Details for my latest public sector social media course in Birmingham on 4 November 2009.

Here are the slides from my presentation on social and new media in public sector communications to today’s CIPR conference.

A new website from Kent County Council shows the potential for opening up access to public sector data.

Help Amanda Dee research how social media can help communications with young people.

Learn more about social media for public sector communications on my one-day course in Birmingham in November.

How my Twitter followers help proved the value of microblogging for work.

Live Twitter from the LGC social media conference.

Here are the slides from my presentation on social media relations for the Local Government Chronicle social media conference.

A three-step approach to managing social media relations in the local public sector.

Exploring some key issues around effective social media relations in the local public sector.

A bit of light relief for a Monday morning thanks to the Glum Councillors blog.

We’re recruiting a marketing manager to oversee a big PCT-funded marketing campaign during 2010.