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State of Social Report 2011 by Econsultancy

By on November 10, 2011 in corporate communications, Marketing, public relations, Reputation Management, social media, Social Networks

Today Econsultancy published its new State of Social Report 2011. It make interesting reading. Thanks to Econsultancy I was lucky enough to get a sneak preview and was able to provide some comments on its findings. I’ve published my comments at the end of this report, but if you’re responsible for any aspect of social [...]

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Greg Hands MP and Michael Dugher MP on the etiquette of Twitter

By on November 7, 2011 in Politics, Reputation Management, social media

In this morning’s round-up of the Hansard Society roundtable on social media campaigning I wrote about the “lack of understanding and expertise in new social media channels.” I didn’t realise at the time that Tory MP Greg Hands was providing us with a text book example that very morning. Much of today’s political Twitter conversation [...]

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Amazing new social network

By on November 7, 2011 in Social Networks

via The Wall Blog

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Social media campaigning in Westminster

By on November 7, 2011 in Government, Politics, Public Affairs, social media

Building an effective social media campaign was the theme of a Hansard Society and Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) roundtable I attended in Portcullis House at Westminster last week. It was a two part event with the first half consisting of campaign ‘insiders’ and the second of campaign ‘observers’. The first half was chaired [...]

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Lobbying is helping a boy to get a puppy

By on November 4, 2011 in Public Affairs, Video

Billy wants a puppy so he has to lobby his parents. Hill & Knowlton in Canada the USA has put this promotional video together to help demonstrate the positive side of public affairs and lobbying – how experts can help you communicate with government.

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Corporate affairs is gaining in influence and should never report to marketing

By on November 2, 2011 in corporate communications, Marketing, public relations, Reputation Management, social media

Just catching up on last week’s PRWeek and Danny Rogers, editor-in-chief of Brand Republic’s marketing titles, wrote a great op-ed on the growing importance of corporate affairs directors. A top corporate headhunter told me this week that corporate affairs directors had, without doubt, gained in influence compared with marketing directors over the past few years. [...]

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Usage of Social Apps – iPhone vs. Android infographic

By on November 2, 2011 in Infographic, social media, Technology

Onavo is a great app that I’ve been using on my phone (HTC Desire HD) for a while now. It monitors the data usage of different apps and warns you of ‘rogue’ apps. It has used the data it has collected (anonymously) to create an infographic to show how iPhone and Android users differ in [...]

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Making negative comments on social media sites will get you fired–Crisp v Apple

By on November 2, 2011 in public relations, Reputation Management, social media

People Management reports on a recent employment tribunal case in favour of Apple Retail, when it ruled that Apple was right to dismiss an employee who had posted negative comments about Apple on Facebook. The employee’s defence was that the derogatory statements were private as they were on a private Facebook page and furthermore were [...]

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Social media world in statistics

By on November 1, 2011 in Infographic, social media

Another day, another social media infographic. Not convinced that there is anything useful to learn from this one from Social Bakers, apart from the fact that some people still need ‘big numbers’ to help convince sceptical CEOs, c-suite and board directors that they need to do something about this ‘social media’ thing.

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Did Bingle bungle blog on Pickles?

By on November 1, 2011 in CIPR, Marketing, Public Affairs, public relations, social media

Online public affairs and using social media and the internet for analysing and influencing public policy isn’t as well advanced in the UK as it is in the USA where Washington lobbyists use it far more than public affairs professionals do in Westminster, Whitehall and Brussels. Last month I ran a training webinar for the [...]

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