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On employee engagement 20 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
As part of my role on the LGcomms national executive, I’m working on a one-day member workshop in early November on employee engagement. It’s a fascinating topic and one that I think local government...
PR volunteering opportunity with CIPR 20 Aug 2013 | 12:26 am
The CIPR has recently announced its partnership with the National Citizen Service (NCS), and as part of this partnership they’ll be delivering educational workshops to students aged 16-17 across the U...
How to say no 19 Aug 2013 | 11:25 am
I’ve had a lot of discussions at work recently about how we say no. More accurately, it’s usually how we say no and can then suggest an alternative and, we believe, better course of action. But ofte...
Prediction is futile 17 Aug 2013 | 12:21 am
I came across a great post on the 100% Open blog about predicting the future earlier on. In the post they talk about how some predictions can be accurate, but like the 1960s graphic prediction of a f...
AVEs are not PR evaluation 16 Aug 2013 | 12:10 am
I’ve been reviewing a fair few CVs this week for a communications role. One that I read sticks in my mind particularly – and not in a good way. This particular CV trumpeted loudly in several places a...
Innergie mMini DC10 review 15 Aug 2013 | 10:37 am
With the summer holiday season in full swing, charging gadgets on the move in the car is a fact of life. When we head off on long journeys we have a GPS, phone charger, tablets and sometimes a DVD pl...
The agency of the future 12 Aug 2013 | 10:49 pm
This is a guest post based on an excerpt from the latest edition of Mark Tungate‘s book Adland. If you like this, blog readers can get an exclusive 30% discount and free P&P on the book (here’s my re...
Joining the LGcomms national executive 3 Aug 2013 | 11:16 pm
For a good few years now I’ve been impressed with the work that’s been done by LGcomms – the national professional body for local government communications – in developing a more positive professional...
Adland – the history of the global advertising industry 2 Aug 2013 | 06:01 pm
Having worked in marketing for most of my career – and having undertaken more professional qualifications that I can remember in that time – I’ve enjoyed learning about the theoretical and academic si...
The Language of Leaders 5 Jul 2013 | 12:08 am
Communications and leadership are two of the areas that I find particularly interesting in working life. That’s why I was keen to read “The Language of Leaders” – a book by Kevin Murray (Chairman, Go...
