I celebrate a double celebration this month. My personal blog is four years old and I’ll reach 500 posts.

The path to Dubai and the rest of the Gulf is a well-trodden one by many practitioners in the public relations industry.

A free tool from Facebook is useful for helping to characterise audiences or publics and understand demographics and behaviours.

Living out of a suitcase for a week is easy, providing you've got the right suitcase. A review of the GOBAG.

My daughter explains the popularity of her favourite app Snapchat. It’s mainly used as a means of messaging friends and consuming news media.

A call for better writing on the internet.

A paper published in the Journal of Communication Management calls on public relations to step up to the ethical challenge of algorithms and data on society.

Darryl Sparey argues that Pokémon Go has significant cultural, social and wellbeing benefits.

The ambitious crowdsourced project is seeking to start a conversation about its value with the public and the organisations that it serves.

Public speaking is hard. Here's how I cracked it. It's a work in progress.

Practical suggestions for improving the relationship between scholars and practitioners in public relations from a BledCom workshop.

European researchers have spotlighted challenges facing public relations agencies and teams in the tenth edition of the European Communications Monitor. ​​​​​

My current reading list.

A blog post that does what it says in the title. New digital and social stuff that happened on the internet in the first six months of 2016.

In this final letter to BledCom the CIPR’s CEO Alastair McCapra reflects on the changing nature of accreditation and education within professional membership organisations.

21 academics, teachers and practitioners including Alex Aiken, Tina McCorkindale, Anne Gregory, and James E. Grunig, have contributed to a workshop at BledCom.

The European Union (EU) referendum is a debate about influence and relationships. I’m in. The UK is one of the leading powers within the EU, a globally influential organisation.

16 personal challenges for public relations practitioners at PR Festival, and elsewhere

Digging out data from silos within your organisation is critical to high performance public relations.

A workshop at an upcoming conference will explore ways to improve collaboration between academics and practitioners in public relations. We’d welcome your contribution.