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Ten years on…

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 at 6:37 am

It’s been ten years since I started out on my marketing and public relations career.

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Media and PR assistant vacancy

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 at 6:46 am

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

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Don’t Panic Guide to Social Media - presentation

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 at 9:01 am

Last Friday I presented about public sector social media at the Don’t Panic Guide to Social Media conference in London.

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Looking back at the CIPR Northern Conference

Friday, June 22nd, 2007 at 2:50 pm

I presented at the CIPR’s Northern Conference in Newcastle yesterday and enjoyed the opportunity to find out about PR in the north-east.

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Busy times

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007 at 10:44 pm

Life is particularly hectic at the moment and unfortunately that’s taking time away from blogging. The local elections taking place in the UK tomorrow are just one reason for that.

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Producing audio and video for the web

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007 at 8:23 pm

A project I’ve been working on recently has involved creating video news shorts and podcasts for the first time. Now both have launched it’s interesting as a professional communicator to reflect on the differences between producing video and audio content .

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UK’s first real local authority podcast

Thursday, December 7th, 2006 at 11:07 pm

I’m very excited as today’s a big day: we’re launching the first real podcast from a local authority in the UK.

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A different web consultancy project

Saturday, October 14th, 2006 at 7:52 am

The new Medway Primary Care Trust (PCT) website has just launched. The site was designed and build by the team at Netsite, and I acted as website consultant for the folks at the PCT.

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Simon Wakeman

I've been on the web since 2001 and have been blogging about marketing and public relations since January 2006.

I'm currently Head of Marketing at Medway Council as well as a freelance marketing and PR consultant.

The content and opinions expressed on this website are not endorsed by nor reflect the views of any company or organisation I work with.

I have always found him knowledgeable, pleasant and professional…I would happily recommend him to anyone needing a professional advisor in the areas of social media, web 2.0 and public sector communications although it’s worth mentioning that his skill set is much wider than that. Raul Gonzalez, Ether-Ray

Simon’s core strengths were around being insight led, marketing and experience planning, and successful delivery. Simon led the ‘paperless credit card agreement’ strategy and agreed a solution which met the needs of all the stakeholders…the 1st solution of it’s kind at the time in the UK market and widely adopted by the industry since. Mike Beddington, Egg

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