A guest post by Seth Bridges, the founder and Head of Product and Marketing at Rival IQ, a social media analytics software company in Seattle, Washington.

#PowerAndInfluence, #FuturePRoof, #PRstack, #PRFest and Comms School are all examples of communities with conversation and learning at their heart.

Wifi in the sky, fake news toolkit, Wikipedia’s gender bias, ethics of AI manipulation, marketing and PR measurement, and farewell social for Lush.

The state of PR, PDF mark-up tool, regulating AI, universal internet access, breaking phone addiction, searching for podcasts and identifying deep fake content.

The CIPR State of Profession survey suggests that basic skills are more important than ever and that we need to grasp the opportunity for management potential.

An experiment by Reuters to create fake video content has helped develop best practice techniques for identifying so called deep fake content.

Copyright law will challenge monitoring market, landing pages and newsrooms, AI and jobs, this week’s Comms School, half-baked ideas, and a research powerhouse.

Women, young people, and those who work part-time are most likely to work in roles that are at high risk of automation.

Marketing in markets without media, tool databases, Google graveyard, reframing Brexit, internal meets external comms, #CommsSchool makes blogging a habit, and the March #FuturePRoof podcast.

A report from Vuelio suggests that blogging is becoming a source of income for a quarter of bloggers. Proceed with caution.

In the second Comms School session we explored third party and owned blogs, how to build a blog and post content, and making blogging a habit.

#CommsSchool gets practical, internal meets external, lessons in learning, AI knowledge gap, don’t build on free land, Airbnb comms as art and the Brexit impasse.

The hype surrounding AI is unhelpful. Professional communicators act ethically and improve their knowledge.

Measurement, PR management lessons from the 50s, inaugural Comms School session, AI is marketing lipstick, wisdom of middle age, and Insta woe.

A new House of Lords Select Committee report recommends streamlining regulation and governance of the internet for citizens in the UK. Its single minded, forward thinking approach is welcomed but is unlikely to be actioned anytime soon because of Brexit.

Foreplay in B2B marketing, inbound PR, personal learning, endings and beginnings, #CommsSchool and a birthday fundraiser.

Podcast creation, dissertation topics, beautiful decks, news management, organic social, fake news report and a new badge.

Here are 20 topics bridging academia and practice that would make the basis of excellent dissertations for media and public relation students.

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport fake news report disappoints in its single-minded attack on Facebook as the destroyer of public discourse and democracy.

#CommsSchool, #FuturePRoof podcast, Twistival remembered, PR for Humans, Companies House transparency tool and an essay about the internet.