Entries have just opened for the UK Social Media Awards 2013 which are now in their fourth year having previously been known as the Some Comms Awards. I’ve been a judge since the start and am pleased to say that I’m judging again this year alongside some great people including: PRCA chair Sally Costerton; Frank [...]
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PR practitioners should not directly edit Wikipedia according to new CIPR guidance
I wouldn’t normally publish a news release verbatim, but this is important and I’m pushed for time this week! Disclaimer: I’m a founder member of the CIPR Social Media panel that created the new Wikipedia guidance and made a few small suggestions of my own to its development. Public relations practitioners should not directly edit [...]

Top 10 tips to win a PR award
Today’s announcement of the PRCA Awards 2011 shortlist reminded me of a post about top 10 tips to win a PR award that I’d started writing more than six months ago, but never got round to finishing. Over the last 18 months or so I have judged PR and social media industry awards for the [...]

PRCA and Meltwater defend internet freedom–open letter to UK MPs
Dear Alec I am writing to you asking for your help as a concerned constituent following the Court of Appeal’s decision on the 27 July regarding ‘temporary copying’. The decision means that millions of UK citizens will unwittingly be infringing copyright as they surf the Internet. This situation has arisen as a result of a [...]
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Stuart Bruce
Award-winning international communications trainer and consultant specialising in online PR, digital corporate communications,digital public affairs and social media. Frequent international media commentator and conference speaker.