Road testing the new Google+ features
Google announced a slew of developments to its services at Google I/O, its annual developer conference in San Francisco last week, many of which related to Google+. The changes to Google+ are further ...
Public Relations
CIPR Election: #vote4wadds
If you’ve voted for me in the CIPR election for President for 2014 thank-you. If you are still considering how to vote here’s a summary of the issues that I’m ...
Speaking up for the public relations profession
It has become a sport for the public relations industry to chastise itself about reputation, modernisation and professional standards. I asked my network on Facebook last week what we did really ...
Google+ for public relations
Here’s the slidedeck that I ran through at a CIPR North-East Google+ session in Newcastle this morning. During the session we explored how Google has changed its search algorithm over ...
CIPR Election: Transparency and voice
I’m standing for President of the CIPR in 2014. I’ve set out ten words and ten pledges that I would focus on during my period in office. Here’s a Slideshare ...
Top 10 blog posts for April and some lessons from Google Analytics
Google Analytics is an incredibly powerful tool for understanding how visitors to a website navigate the content. Setting goals forces you to focus on the purpose of your site. Each ...
Mark Hanson award: searching for the brightest young communicator
The UK Social Media Awards are on the hunt for an extraordinary individual to win the coveted Mark Hanson award for 2013. The award was created in 2011 by organisers ...
Suffragette Emily Wilding Davison’s last great campaign
Emily Wilding Davison was a suffragette who died almost a hundred years ago when she fell under King George V’s horse at the Derby. 8 June will mark the anniversary of ...
CIPR Election: Social and lobby
I’m standing for President of the CIPR in 2014. I’ve set out ten words and ten pledges that I would focus on during my period in office. Here’s a Slideshare ...
‘Crap detection’: Ernest Hemingway and the Associated Press Twitter hack
Another day and another high profile attack on the reputation of an organisation. This time it was the turn of the Associated Press. A false tweet posted by @ap this ...
