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 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.
The new code for marketing, public relations and communications for English councils is now in force.
My thoughts on John Shewell’s call to council communicators to adopt social design as their future role.
I’ll be running an advanced social media course for public sector communicators in Leeds on 25 May and in London on 23 June.
Local election purdah for many councils starts tomorrow. Find out more about what that means and how it affects council communications.
A guest post from Emily Turner looking at some of the aspects of the relationship between PRs and journalists – from someone who has experience from both sides of the fence.
Find out more about my April workshop in Glasgow on public sector social media
The report from a select committee hearing into the proposed new local government publicity code have been published.
It’s been quite a while since my last post but it won’t be as long until the next time, I promise!
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