Well, it’s had a great innings but can we now finally bury the idea that using social media ad hoc in an organisation is going to change the world? But what great days we had. We had a mantra of JFDI in local government – just flipping do it – and we did things underRead… Read more »
Ladies and gentlemen, I want to celebrate failure. Not just the small I’ve-forgotten-to-put-the-bins out fail but the epic failures that really leave egg on your face. So, say it once say it proud, I’ve failed and I’m proud. Because he or she who really knows the bitter pill of underachieving is dealt a golden weightRead… Read more »
In all my years in local government I’ve not come across anyone so Militantly passionate about the job they do than librarians. So, it was great to be able to sit down with 12 of them and talk to them about social media and how it could work for them. Walsall Council countryside ranger MorganRead… Read more »
Blogging. Why bother? It’s a question I’ve asked myself before as I’ve reached for the laptop after a busy day when probably a bottle of wine would have been better. As it turns out, I’m not alone. According to one estimate there are more than 200 million and that’s not event counting micro-blogging platform Twitter.Read… Read more »
So this, ladies and gentleman, is what I’ve been banging on for years. You give a smartphone and social media access to a frontline worker who ‘gets it’ and gets out of the office and then you sit back. For the past six weeks swathes of England has been under water with the wettest JanuaryRead… Read more »
You may not know this but there’s a corner of local government that’s has a major say in decisions that will affect how your family is treated when they are not well. They’re called health and wellbeing boards and while they meet at Town Halls they cover the intersection between GPs, local authorities and patientsRead… Read more »
Ladies and gentlemen, I’ve made the charts new in at number four. An unexpected email dropped the other day from the nice people at Cision. They’ve rated this blog as 4th in their list of UK PR blogs. I haven’t a clue what metrics they’ve used but I suspect pictures of cake have played aRead… Read more »
“I’d rather not predict,” US Democratic strategist James Carville once said, “I’d rather affect.” Seeing as the only thing I’m affecting between Christmas and New Year is a large cake tin and a box of celebrations I’ll be ignoring the man who helped put Clinton in the White House. But first here’s a few thingsRead… Read more »
It’s seven years since the ground-breaking post ‘Die! Press Release! Die! Die!’ was written. Tom Foremski’s this-can’t-go-on wail reads as powerfully as a Martin Luther deconstruction of one of the central pillars of the public relations industry. “I’ve been telling the PR industry for some time now that things cannot go along as they are,”Read… Read more »
At @russianembassy waiting for start of #digitalbbq on how the internet influences political decision making #rukonf pic.twitter.com/9UyHem5PCH — Dan Slee (@danslee) November 25, 2013 So, what’s to share from a trip to the Russian Ambassador’s residence in London for a discussion on how the internet shapes political decision? Actually, quite a lot and not justRead… Read more »