Public sector organisations need to think more broadly about how they engage with social networking.

Some thought-provoking questions on social media from the IDeA’s Ingrid Koehler.

An article I wrote for CIPR on local government and social media.

Looking at online networking opportunities for local government and other public sector communicators.

Birmingham’s social media community has shown the public sector how to consult more effectively online.

Steph Gray has created a superb tool for collecting examples of public sector social media in the UK.

The recent “fake Tony Benn” saga on Twitter highlights a reputational risk for public relations and communicators to manage.

Some tips for PR, marketing and communications people looking for public sector jobs.

Looking at the use of social media in local government in the UK. Part one of a three-part series.

Liam Fitzpatrick questions whether advanced internal communications actually exists.

The UK’s Chartered Institute of Marketing is trying to come up with a new definition of marketing.

Ian Delaney at twopointouch.com has an interesting post about how to characterise a community.

I always like a challenge, whether it’s at work or in my spare time. This summer I’m cycling 56 miles and running my first marathon for charity.

Nick Porter, director at Iris PR, has an interesting article about how agencies need to delivery genuinely integrated campaigns on the BrandRepublic website.

Ask.com and digital marketing agency Profero are behind a misguided offline and online campaign that’s aiming to encourage UK search users to stop using Google.

Last week’s PR Week magazine (UK) features an article about Jimmy Wales, head honcho at Wikipedia, threatening to ban PR agencies and paid PR professionals from editing Wikipedia if they continue to edit entries about clients.

The Central Office of Information (COI) is the UK government’s centre of excellence for marketing and communications. In this email interview Jamie Galloway, COI’s Director of Digital Media, talks about how the UK government uses digital media in its campaigns.

Guardian Online carries an interesting story today about the launch of a new brand management product from Creston – a product clearly positioned as a defensive tool against blogs.

The Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) has just published its consultation document on social media.

Just a quick post to wish the best of luck to the founders of Crayon with their official launch in Second Life on Thursday.

Several days on from the original debate around “Wal-marting across America” Richard Edelman and Steve Rubel have posted about Edelman’s involvement.

Last week’s Marketing Week magazine marked a moment of truth for me about how the marketing and PR professions each view social media.

So David Brain has had an unexpected opportunity to chat face to face with Colin Farrington, CIPR director-general. And the conversation has thrown up a challenge – what does the UK social media community want CIPR to do to promote these new communications channels?

The discussion around the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) and the thoughts of Director-General Colin Farrington on social media continues.

It’s been interesting to watch how marketing and PR professionals have adopted social media as a tool for communicating. PR professionals seem to have adopted social media much quicker than their marketing counterparts, but that could now be changing.