Staff, social media policies and managing risk
Thoughts on a recent employment tribunal case about use of social media and the role of social media policies.
Who are your internal communications for?
How could internal communication be improved by thinking about the motivations and the needs of the “ignored majority” of employees?
The Public Relations Handbook – out now
The fourth edition of The Public Relations Handbook is now out, including my chapter on public sector PR.
Shabby PR from SOCITM
Why SOCITM shouldn’t be using shabby PR tactics to flog their new cookie service.
An empowered communications team equals an empowered community?
A guest post by Adrian Winterburn about the role of PR in successful community engagement
Differentiation in communications
What does the concept of differentiation have to do with public sector communications?
Social media as a tool for community engagement?
Read Karen Connell’s research exploring the nature of two-way symmetrical communications in public sector organisations, with a focus on whether the growth of social media is affecting the nature of one of the four models of PR originally proposed by Grunig and Hunt.
The Brand Republic 200
The BR 200 list of the best advertising, marketing, media, PR and digital blogs from around the world, ranked in terms of traffic and social influence, is out.
New publicity code for local government
The new code for marketing, public relations and communications for English councils is now in force.
Social design, systems thinking and communications
My thoughts on John Shewell’s call to council communicators to adopt social design as their future role.
