Here’s a guest post by one of our PR interns Maria (@mpfalangi) who has spent the last year working with our team. I blogged about our interns ages ago (see here) and they’ve proved a real breath of fresh air. Now that they’re about to leave we’re really going to miss them. Here, Maria talks about one of the projects she’d been working on.
Who doesn’t love a good local market? This fortnight is an opportunity for both traders and shoppers to be part of something bigger.
Posted in media and communications, North East
Tagged interns, internship, markets, northumberland
A guest post from Liz Ritson this week looking at one of Northumberland’s latest exhibitions. Be quick though, it ends on 9 June.
A historic colliery site might not be the most obvious place to find stunning movie costumes worn by stars including Johnny Depp, Keira Knightley, Sir Laurence Olivier and Cate Blanchett, but here at Woodhorn we like to offer something a little different. Continue reading
Low turnouts and a general apathy have been the hallmarks of local elections so far this year, so it’s even more important that we make sure we get the right person to lead our professional organisation the CIPR election. Continue reading
Posted in management and professional, media and communications, North East
Tagged CIPR, communications, election, PR
This time seven years ago I was sitting at an airport with no job, no responsibilities and a round the world flight ticket burning a hole in my pocket.
The only thought on my mind was which fruit would be going into my Daiquiri and how many countries I could fit into my carefully planned flight schedule.
How times have changed and although I wasn’t getting on a flight this week, my thoughts have been closely focused on tourism and how we use social media to inspire our locals to live like a tourist in their own backyard.
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Posted in Culture, media and communications, North East, public sector, social media, Tourism and travel
Tagged communications, festival, north east, northumberland, PR, social media, tourism, travel
As a local government communicator I often have to spend quite a bit of time convincing friends that my job is nothing like that of Malcolm Tucker, the fictional anti-hero of the BBC comedy series, despite a similar job title and natural swearing pattern.
So it was fairly amusing to find myself hosting a CIPR North East event called: The thick of It – a practical introduction to Parliament. Continue reading
Posted in media and communications, North East
Tagged CIPR, House of commons, house of Lords, north east, parliment, politics
‘People power’ is probably an overused phrase but in this increasingly crowd sourced, community-led, two way street online world it’s one that’s at the very top of the PR agenda.
There’s seemingly a new example every month and this week it was the turn of 17-year-old Paris Brown to act as a case study on the shifting sands of modern news, PR and social media.
So now would seem as good a time as any to help push an excellent event taking place for communications professionals that will look to try and make sense of this rapidly changing environment. Continue reading
Posted in media and communications, North East
Tagged CIPR, communications, Great North Museum, north east, Northern conference, PR, social media
A year ago today I started writing on the this blog.
Variously egged on and inspired by @comms2point0 @danslee @darrencaveney @wadds and @weeklyblogclub 12 months has gone by in the blink of an eye.
5,400 views and 161 comments later I’ve got know to many new faces through blogging and hopefully shared some useful information too.
Having said that, it seems you’re mostly interested in irreverant parenting chat, rather than my in-depth anaysis of the changing communications landscape.
The two most viewed posts (by miles) were:
Despite these laughs at my expense I hope that I’ve also provided some useful professional discussion that adds to the vibrant debate around PR and social media.
A few of my favourites from the past 12 monts were:
Thanks again for readig, commenting, liking and sharing.
Posted in children, family and parenting, media and communications
Tagged blog, one, popular posts
The idea that mobile web browsing is transforming the way we consume content should be perfectly obvious when my 5 year old hacks the ipad code and downloads a new version of plants vs zombies in the time it takes to go to the toilet.
A few things I’ve read this week coupled with our own experience online has convinced me of a major shift in the way people are using and accessing the web. Continue reading
Posted in public sector, technology
Tagged apps, mobile, online, Responsive design, tablet
Daughter number 1 caputures the moment in this artists impression
It started out like any normal day.
By that, I mean up and out of bed at 5am after CIA-inspired levels of sleep deprivation and white noise pumped directly into my brain throughout the night.
All I had to do now was tip-toe through the mountain of scattered toys and get through breakfast without decorating my suit with toast, felt pen, glue, child’s vomit or milky, unwanted cereal.
Posted in children, family and parenting, life
Tagged babies, children, first steps, parenting, walking
“As man advances in civilization, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he ought to extend his social instincts and sympathies to all the members of the same nation, though personally unknown to him,” Charles Darwin 1871.
Change. Adapt. Evolve. That’s been the mantra for the past few years – certainly since the financial markets shook everything in 2008 – and that was the key message I took from the CIPR’s state of the profession survey. Continue reading
Posted in media and communications, North East, public sector, social media, technology
Tagged brand anarchy, change, CIPR, communications, council, PR, public sector, state of the profession
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