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Miliband’s blog and edemocracy

By + on August 16, 2006 in Government, Politics, Public Sector

Simon Dickson has been chatting to the ‘Valiant Official’ who looks after Cabinet minister David Miliband’s blog. It confirms what I’ve already said which is that the blog is very much David’s thing and that he is writing the blog…

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Eddie Izzard’s European podcast

By + on June 19, 2006 in Government, Podcast, Politics, Public Sector

The 10 Downing Street website asks “Ever wonder what happens when Europe’s political leaders get together?” and seeks to provide the answers with a podcast from comedian Eddie Izzard who tagged along with Tony Blair’s team during their last visit…

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Journalists write easier to read copy than PRs

By + on May 26, 2006 in Business, CIPR, Government, Marketing, Media, Politics, public relations, Public Sector

Media Orchard has a fun little experiment to assess some media, marketing and PR blogs for their readability using the Gunning-Fog test. I thought I’d add a few extra to the pot (one or two duplicates) and see how PRs…

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Lewis’ Morgan McLintic on why staff churn can be a good thing

By + on May 8, 2006 in Government, Politics, public relations, Public Sector

An excellent example of why blogs work is Morgan McLintic on PR and more recently Drew B’s take on tech PR (ie when I found out he worked for Lewis). You see as a tech PR person based in the…

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Top 33 blogs

By + on May 7, 2006 in Business, Cumbria, Government, Marketing, Media, Podcast, Politics, public relations, Public Sector, Reputation Management, Yorkshire

My post on Popular blogs suck has turned out to be one of my more popular posts. As a result I’ve had a few people asking me what is actually on my ‘Must Read’ list. Well first of all my…

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Politicians more trusted than the media

By + on May 7, 2006 in Government, Media, Politics, public relations, Public Sector, Reputation Management

Just before the local elections this very interesting piece of research was published by Globespan on behalf of the BBC (PDF download). It revealed that more people trust the government in Britain than they do the media. Most of the…

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Blogging bobby on the beat

By + on April 20, 2006 in Government, Public Sector, Yorkshire

West Yorkshire Police is leading the way when it comes to using the web. First they launched www.beatcrime.info so you could punch in your postcode and see crime figures for your community. Then they launched the Neighbourhood Police Teams website…

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Forthcoming engagements

By + on April 10, 2006 in Business, CIPR, Government, Leeds, Marketing, Podcast, public relations, Public Sector, Reputation Management, Self Promotion, Technology, Yorkshire

Over the next couple of months I’m attending and speaking about blogs, blogging, reputation management, corporate communications and public relations at a number of events: April 13, Leeds – Government News Network / Trinity & All Saints College – Postgraduate…

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Warwick blogs win CIPR Pride Midlands award

By + on February 21, 2006 in Business, CIPR, public relations, Public Sector, Reputation Management

Last Friday the Midlands region of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations announced thre results of its Pride awards. The results and case studies are now available on the Pride website. Interesting to see that the University of Warwick’s in-house…

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