The career journey in public relations is far from straightforward. Learning and development is a work in progress.

A start up has combined craft, design and recycling to produce gorgeous handmade products including cases for tech kit.

This is a summary of a presentation that I gave at Brandwatch’s European Now You Know user conference in London, UK.

The PRCA Digital Report is a benchmark for how the public relations business is getting to grips with digital and social forms of communications.

Paul Sutton shares how he's bringing his personal story of managing mental health to bear to help agencies and communication teams. There's a strong business case.

There’s a standoff on the internet between consumers and publishers. It's difficult to see how anyone can win.

Working 9 to 5, or thereabouts, leaves 16 hours free. It’s the perfect amount of time for a microadventure.

The Reuters Institute Digital Report 2016 reports on the ongoing decline of traditional news media and its uneasy relationship with digital platforms.

Public relations is a powerful tool for a start up to raise its profile and build relationships. It can help prove the viability of a product or service and build a business model.

Crowdsourced tips from my social network for anybody running the Great North Run on Sunday. See you at the start line.

The second edition of #FuturePRoof continues to assert the value of public relations.

AMEC's Measurement Month takes place in September. You should get involved if you haven’t already. The return on investment (ROI) will be high.

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.