Simon Wakeman - marketing, public relations and digital communications

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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Categories: Events, Podcasting, Public relations, Public sector, Reviews

Statistics, research and analysis round-up - w/e 8 June 2007

Saturday, June 9th, 2007 at 10:14 pm

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

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Categories: Business development, Customer experience, Direct marketing, Email marketing, Marketing, Podcasting, Public relations, Sales, Search engine optimisation, Social media, Web strategy

Chewing the new PR fat once again

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007 at 9:34 pm

I spent yesterday up in London at a Delivering the New PR conference once again.

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Categories: Blogging, Events, Marketing, Online video, Podcasting, Public relations, RSS, Social media, Twitter, Video podcasting, Web strategy

Delivering the New PR 2.0 in London

Thursday, May 31st, 2007 at 11:19 pm

Next Tuesday 5 June the Delivering the New PR 2.0 conference rolls into London and I’m going.

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Categories: Blogging, Events, Marketing, Podcasting, Public relations, Public sector, Regulations and laws, Social media, Video podcasting

Statistics, research and analysis round-up - w/e 25 May 2007

Monday, May 28th, 2007 at 9:22 pm

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

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Categories: Advertising, Blogging, Customer experience, Direct marketing, Marketing, News, Online video, Podcasting, Public relations, Search engine optimisation, Social media, Statistics, research and analysis, Web strategy

CIPR Northern Conference

Monday, May 28th, 2007 at 8:20 pm

Next month I’ll be running a workshop session at Northern Conference in Newcastle looking at podcasting in the public sector.

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Categories: Events, Podcasting, Public relations, Public sector, Social media

EuroBlog 2007 - blogs, podcasts, RSS, video and image sharing

Monday, March 19th, 2007 at 6:12 am

The Euroblog 2007 research project confirms that the world of communications is changing fast.

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Categories: Blogging, Online video, Podcasting, Public relations, RSS, Social media, Video podcasting

CIPR social media guidelines

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007 at 5:55 am

With the deadline for responses fast approaching there’s a trickle of PR bloggers responding to the social media consultation from the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR).

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Categories: Blogging, Podcasting, Public relations, Regulations and laws, Social media, Video podcasting

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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Categories: Online video, Podcasting, Public relations, Public sector, Social media, Video podcasting

Feedback on CIPR social media guidelines

Monday, January 8th, 2007 at 7:13 am

Late last year the UK’s Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR), of which I’m a member, published its discussion paper on social media. I’ve finally had a chance to respond with my thoughts.

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Categories: Blogging, Personal development, Podcasting, Public relations, Social media

Interview with Jamie Galloway, COI

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007 at 11:17 pm

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.

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Categories: Interviews, Public sector, Social media

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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Categories: Marketing, Podcasting, Public relations, Public sector, Social media

CIPR - social media consultation

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006 at 9:27 pm

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

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Categories: Blogging, Podcasting, Public relations, RSS, Social media

When is a podcast not a podcast?

Wednesday, November 15th, 2006 at 9:45 am

This is one of the most misleadingly named services I’ve seen in quite a while: Readspeaker Podcaster.

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Categories: Marketing, Podcasting, Public relations, RSS

Making connections with social media

Wednesday, October 25th, 2006 at 9:23 am

Social media is all about making connections. And yesterday once again I experienced this in real life.

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Categories: Blogging, Podcasting, Public relations, Public sector, Social media, Video podcasting

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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Categories: Customer experience, Marketing, Public relations, Social media, Web development

I’m going to Delivering the New PR

Friday, October 6th, 2006 at 8:49 pm

I’m pleased to say that I’m going to be going to the Delivering the New PR conference in London on Friday, 10 November 2006.

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Categories: Blogging, Personal development, Podcasting, Public relations, Social media, Video podcasting

What is social media?

Friday, September 29th, 2006 at 9:06 pm

Spannerworks has just published a handy new e-book covering the basics of social media.

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Categories: Marketing, Podcasting, Public relations, Social media, Video podcasting, Web strategy

My journey into podcasting

Tuesday, September 12th, 2006 at 10:48 pm

At a key organisation I work with I’ve managed to persuade the powers that be to commit to a six month trial of podcasting and video podcasting. This is a real step forward in communications for this type of organisation.

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Categories: Podcasting, Public relations, Social media, Video podcasting

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