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Comms School set to tackle practical comms skills to help you get ahead in your career
Marcel Klebba and I are creating a virtual school to share our expertise in communications. We hope you’ll join us.
Your audience with the public
An essay about the impact of the internet on corporate communication, marketing and public relations over the past 20 years.
Letter from Grand Central Rail
Podcasting is in vogue, using LinkedIn effectively, Tortoise slow journalism project, Netflix Fyre documentary, unreasonable briefs, a new AI marketing book and dates for PRFest.
Podcasts are booming but how do you measure success?
It’s difficult for podcasters and publishers to get meaningful audience information because data is fragmented. Here are some suggestions.
Letter from the internet
Instagram moderation, internet adoption report, fake Twitter audit, future of blogging, Ofcom on children's media use and Digital Download date.
Where have all the bloggers gone?
Individual blogs are in decline but blogging remains an important form of social media for reputation and awareness.
Letter from BETT
Community teaching and newsjacking tools, Edelman on trust, putting the paid in PESO, a how-to book for 2019, Amazon data driven brands, Instagram marketing offline, and more.
How to run PESO campaigns on Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and Twitter
A recent blog post explored using paid media as part of an integrated PESO campaign. Here I look at how to roll out ads and promoted content from £1 per day on some of the popular platforms.
Letter from Whitley Bay
Lessons from rugby, planning a backlash, paid media as part of a PESO campaign, Twitter analytics, a realtime calendar for 2019, and branded Alexa briefings.
How to use paid media as part of an integrated PESO campaign
Paid media is an important element of the integrated paid, earned, shared and owned (PESO) model but it’s the least understood.
Using Twitter to monitor and measure public health and wellbeing
Social media listening is finding applications in healthcare. It’s a powerful example of modern marketing and public relations.
8 headlines from the Reuters Institute future of news report
A Facebook backlash, robot journalism, audio and slow news, are all among news trends spotlighted in a report published by the Reuters Institute.
Video: John Perry Barlow on the potential of the internet
An internet visionary vindicated.
#FuturePRoof Podcast: robots to try at home
Sarah Hall and Stephen Waddington are back. In this show they discuss publicity, books, objectives and jobs for 2019, and robots.
Help support foodbanks and food poverty by starting in your local community
Here are ways that you can help tackle food poverty and the issues raised by the film I, Daniel Blake.
Foodbank fundraiser: a local story of food poverty
Please help support a fundraising effort for my local foodbank in Newcastle.
An A to Z guide to marketing and PR agency management
Agencies are straightforward organisations to manage. It’s no more complicated than A to Z.
Foodbank fundraiser: please help tackle UK food poverty at Christmas
More people than ever before in the UK are expected to use food banks this Christmas. I’d appreciate your help raising money for my local food bank in Newcastle.
Leveson Inquiry archive important contribution to debate and education on media ethics
Kingston University has published an archive of the Leveson Inquiry six years after it reported.