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18 things the Ashes can tell you about digital communications 25 Aug 2013 | 11:00 am
Back in 1882 when England took on Australia at the game of cricket it took 10 weeks for the message of who won to travel 9,000 miles from London to Melbourne. Today it takes seconds. Nothing is a bet...
BREW EXPORT: 22 things I learned at two events with tea and cake 12 Aug 2013 | 11:00 am
An ace thing happened this week. Twice. We saw the brewcamp idea exported first to Dudley and then to Stafford. It worked beautifully in both places too. What’s a brewcamp? It’s an idea that has it...
#BESTBYWM: Why I’m proud of the Best by West Midlands whitepaper 28 Jul 2013 | 05:30 pm
Celebrate what you want to see more of is a good maxim for life. Which is why I’ve been been involved in a project that celebrates some of the best local government social media use not just in the We...
FUTURE CODE: Are web developers today’s news photographer? 9 Jul 2013 | 10:30 am
A major US newspaper announced plans to fire its entire picture desk a week or two back. All 28 of them. To go. As someone who has worked on newspapers and now deals with them as part of their job th...
WORN STORIES: What tweets about carpets tells you about WH Smith 8 Jul 2013 | 02:00 am
For a while now the line between digital and boundaries have been blurring. Job descriptions we used to have don’t hold up anymore. There used to be a dedicated customer services team but as Eddie Co...
POST RELEASE: What are you doing writing just press releases in 2013? 5 Jul 2013 | 02:55 am
It seems as though I’ve spent much of the last couple of years that no, you don’t always want a press release. What you actually want is a webpage, a series of tweets on Twitter or an audio clip. Ear...
DUB LINKS: Dublin and social 2 Jul 2013 | 12:20 am
There’s something hugely inspiring about seeing other people who are passionate about what they do. This month I got to go to Dublin to talk to some great people from Dublin City Council who are look...
PLUS ONE: Why Google+ is now part of the comms landscape 1 Jul 2013 | 11:00 am
Ladies and gentlemen, I admit it. Google+ is starting to become a contender for comms people. Yes, it’s true that it has only a percentage of the users that Facebook has. But when the bottom line of....
UNCLE KEITH: Never argue with an idiot and 11 things on being social for your organisation 27 Jun 2013 | 03:11 pm
Tim Berners-Lee, Paul Otlet and Clay Shirky add to that list of web visionaries if you will my Uncle Keith. Bear with me on this one. When I was 18 he came back from Australia to visit and he took m...
FUTURE GOVCOMMS: Training, Trust and Re-Training Ministers 20 Jun 2013 | 11:00 am
So, what should the future of government communications look like? If you think it’s tweeting press releases wearing a One Direction t-shirt you’re wrong. Refreshingly, the UK government has stood up ...
