Dear Reader, I’d like you do me a quick favour. Normally, I try and post some ideas, case studies or things that have impressed me about digital communications. If you’ve got something out of them then great and if that’s the case they I’ve a favour to ask. I’d like you in the words ofRead… Read more »
How much difference does it make to add a picture to a Facebook update? Lots. Or to be more precise 147 per cent. That was the figure when we posted two updates within minutes on a broadly similar subject. The first celebrated a Britain in Bloom win for towns in Walsall Council’s boundaries with aRead… Read more »
Cricket? That’s pints of beer, the smack of leather on willow English summer days, isn’t it? When I played for a 4th team in the North Staffs League it was also vicious grudge matches, a batsman who could only score fours and sixes and cows at cow corner. My greatest contribution? Probably to persuade theRead… Read more »
A major US newspaper announced plans to fire its entire picture desk a week or two back. All 28 of them. To go. As someone who has worked on newspapers and now deals with them as part of their job that’s a significant step. It also underlines in it’s own small way this whole ‘theRead… Read more »
There’s something hugely inspiring about seeing other people who are passionate about what they do. This month I got to go to Dublin to talk to some great people from Dublin City Council who are looking, like we all are, to better understand how the internet is changing what they do. There I got toRead… Read more »
Ladies and gentlemen, I admit it. Google+ is starting to become a contender for comms people. Yes, it’s true that it has only a percentage of the users that Facebook has. But when the bottom line of that percentage is 230 million that’s a significant figure. It’s also true that some people have been evangelisingRead… Read more »
Tim Berners-Lee, Paul Otlet and Clay Shirky add to that list of web visionaries if you will my Uncle Keith. Bear with me on this one. When I was 18 he came back from Australia to visit and he took me to the pub in the Cumbrian village Portinscale near Keswick where he was born.Read… Read more »
Fail to understand the changing landscape and very soon you won’t have a job. It’s something I’ve been banging on about for some time now and It’s true whether you are a journalist, comms person or a fifth generation pit prop maker in 1983. A bright person a few weeks ago told me that thereRead… Read more »
If you really want to irritate someone and show them how far from the curve they actually are point them at ‘The Cluetrain Manifesto.’ Published in 1999 as the product of a web forum the 95 points sketches out how the social web will work and what the future will look like. It’s bold stuff.Read… Read more »
So, here they are. To continue the list meme things that struck me after commscamp an unconference for pr and comms people. I wish there was more of these. I hope that some people who came to commscamp left as inspired as I did when I left localgovcamp in 2009. I wish there was moreRead… Read more »