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

Council social media campaigns can be a story in themselves.

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

How does the credit crunch affect media consumption and the marketing mix?

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

We’ve got a vacancy for a media and PR assistant at Medway Council.

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

My mobile phone is an important part of my connected existence. Here are my top ten mobile applications for using on the move.

We’re about to launch a new service called Map My Tracks – a GPS tracking tool for sportsmen and women.

Here are another twenty six free tools to use to see what people are saying about you.

Is there a problem with Feedburner statistics for RSS feeds, or is it just me?

Discover how to use free web services to monitor your organisation’s reputation online.

The government has a lot of data. How can it use it for to help improve public sector communications?

One of the less enjoyable parts of my role heading up marketing and PR at Medway Council is the endless stream of salespeople who want a slice of my time.

A round-up of statistics, analysis and research that I spotted this week.

Newscounter is a new UK-based website that aims to offer a right to reply on controversial or one-sided stories in the media.

Alister Cameron has a very interesting post on ProBlogger about how Google Blogsearch indexes your blog posts.

A round-up of statistics, analysis and research that I spotted this week.

The UK’s Sunday Times has a thought-provoking article about online and offline advertising which picks up some potential future trends for marketers.

Google’s not the only search tool worth using for desktop research. Discover new search engines and techniques to improve your research.

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.

The Todd And list of top marketing blogs lists 17 UK-based marketing blogs, including this one. I’ve created an RSS feed that aggregates content from all these blogs.

Richard Millington has a post about how easy it can be to create fake PR – and has some examples to prove it. His post reminds me of an experience I had with a fake journalist last year.

TalkTalk’s upgrade to my broadband service and help when my router wouldn’t connect left much to be desired. Google to the rescue…

If you track your RSS subscriber figures as closely as I do, you’ll know that the number of people downloading your RSS feed tends to drop markedly at the weekend. Yesterday mine went up though, and a change at Google is behind this.