---
title: "Social media"
url: https://www.simonwakeman.com/blog/tag/social-media/
description: "Posts by Simon Wakeman tagged Social media."
author: Simon Wakeman
---
# Social media

## [Deloitte's 2013 UK Media Consumer survey](https://www.simonwakeman.com/blog/2013/04/30/deloittes-2013-uk-media-consumer-survey/)

30th April 2013

A useful bit of research looking at social media, digital and consumer behaviour in the UK.

## [UK Social Media Communications Awards 2013](https://www.simonwakeman.com/blog/2013/04/10/uk-social-media-communications-awards-2013/)

10th April 2013

I’m really pleased to have been asked to be a judge for this year’s UK Social Media Communications Awards – which are are about celebrating the very best in UK social media communications.

## [Attack of the Customers by Paul Gillin and Greg Gianforte](https://www.simonwakeman.com/blog/2013/04/09/attack-of-the-customers-by-paul-gillin-and-greg-gianforte/)

9th April 2013

Attack of the Customers looks at the power that consumers have in a social media-enabled world and how organisations need to operate in this environment.

## [The social media plateau?](https://www.simonwakeman.com/blog/2013/03/03/the-social-media-plateau/)

3rd March 2013

Has social media got stuck as a communications tool and is the local public sector missing out on the broader transformational potential of digital tools?

## [Local authorities on Twitter – a perspective](https://www.simonwakeman.com/blog/2012/07/11/local-authorities-on-twitter-a-perspective/)

11th July 2012

My perspective on the use of league tables for councils on Twitter.

## [How social media is changing internal communication](https://www.simonwakeman.com/blog/2011/12/04/how-social-media-is-changing-internal-communication/)

4th December 2011

How social media and networked communications is changing internal communications.

## [What do senior managers want to know about social media?](https://www.simonwakeman.com/blog/2011/11/06/what-do-senior-managers-want-to-know-about-social-media/)

6th November 2011

I’m putting together a new course about social media in the public sector. This time I’m focussing on senior managers, heads of service, assistant directors … [Read More](https://www.simonwakeman.com/blog/2011/11/06/what-do-senior-managers-want-to-know-about-social-media/ "What do senior managers want to know about social media?")

## [Staff, social media policies and managing risk](https://www.simonwakeman.com/blog/2011/09/20/staff-social-media-policies-and-managing-risk/)

20th September 2011

Thoughts on a recent employment tribunal case about use of social media and the role of social media policies.

## [Social media as a tool for community engagement?](https://www.simonwakeman.com/blog/2011/05/24/how-effective-is-social-media-as-a-tool-for-community-engagement/)

24th May 2011

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.

## [Public sector social media workshop](https://www.simonwakeman.com/blog/2011/03/24/public-sector-social-media-workshop/)

24th March 2011

I’ll be running an advanced social media course for public sector communicators in Leeds on 25 May and in London on 23 June.