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

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

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

I spoke about Medway Council’s Mixit Podcast at the Chartered Institute of Public Relations Northern Conference in June 2007.

Here are the files from my presentation:

Powerpoint slides (6.6MB)
Embedded audio: public sector podcast samples (1MB)
Embedded audio: Mixit Podcast samples (2.7MB)
Speaker’s notes

You can also find links to many of the resources I mentioned in my presentation on my del.icio.us account with the tag podcasting.
I hope you find them useful. If you’d like any more information about our work on the podcast please do drop me a line.
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A round-up of statistics, analysis and research that I spotted this week.

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

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

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

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

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

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).

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 .

My feedreader is awash with predictions, tips and hints for surviving 2007 in the world of marketing and public relations. The MarketingSherpa Marketing Wisdom 2007 is one of the best I’ve seen.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Just arrived back from Delivering the New PR in London today – an excellent conference on using social media tools in public relations.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Podcasting – A smart guide to podcasts and podcasting
A good introduction to what podcasting is all about
(tags: simon’s+podcast+project podcasting)

Create podcasts using your PC
A good nuts and bolts guide to producing audio content with PC and free software
(tags: simon’s+podcast+project podcasting)