I’ve just presented at the Effective Social Media & Web 2.0 Strategies for Local Authorities conference – here are my slides.

Ofcom’s latest Communications Market report provides a great insignt into the UK’s changing patterns of media consumption.

How social media should be taught on public relations degree courses.

Shel Holtz has a great post about the debate over where responsibility for social media lies in organisations.

How could better public relations have improved the announcement of changes to vehicle excise duty?

Why is public relations in local government so defensive?

Last week I launched the new website for public relations magazine Behind the Spin.

A Canadian study provides a welcome reality check: credibility of new media is rated significantly lower than old media

Mark Borkowski provides a useful insight in dealing with celebrity PR following Heather Mills’ appearance on GMTV last week.

Many visitors to my site want to know the difference between marketing and public relations. Here’s my answer.

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

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

The UK’s Press Complaints Commission applied its Code of Practice to the inappropriate use of user-generated video to support editorial on a member website.

New site Vlogyourjob.com brings social video to public relations recruitment.

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

David Scott has a great new Changethis manifesto tackling the over-use of jargon, hype and meaningless terminology in marketing and PR copy.

I went back to school today at a study day for the CIPR online diploma qualification.

Blogging consultant Debbie Weil has taken some flak for emailing contacts encouraging them to comment on a client’s blog.

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

It’s been a pretty hectic week, meaning lots of late night working and no time for proper blogging thanks to the arrival of the Tour de France in the UK.

Convergence and niches are at the heart of Chip Griffin’s explanation of how the media landscape is changing.

I’ve been wading through consultation papers on a new UK law that could affect marketing and public relations people by April 2008.

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

David Phillips explains why social media is so important in public relations.

Facebook is everywhere at the moment, but what’s the future for the many new social networking sites launching every week?