PR winners and losers is a couple of days late this week, not good for its second outing, but my take this week is: PR …
Category: Public Sector
Greater Manchester Police is one of the public sector organisations that is leading the way in its use of social media. But, if you’re at …
It was seven years ago today (on April 24, 2003) when I started my first blog. Little did I know at the time what an …
Excellent post on Tom Watson’s blog announcing the establishment of the Power of Information Taskforce. It’s chaired by Richard Allen, the former Lib Dem MP and now head of government affairs at Cisco. As Tom says “Richard has a vast…
Yesterday, DowningStreet started to Twitter. The bio describes it as “The official twitter channel for the Prime Minister’s Office based at 10 Downing Street” and gives the web address of the official PM’s site at www.pm.gov.uk. Of course it isn’t…
A couple of great posts have prompted me to make one final post on the latest social media and PR kerfuffle. First of all the ever wise Tom Murphy brings a dose of reality and common sense by saying “Now…
Yet another indication of just how mainstream social media has become is Davos Conversations – a collection of blogs, videos and photos to give us a better insight into the exclusive gathering of 2,000+ senior politicians, business and NGO leaders….
Just came across the London 2012: Work in Progress blog. It only started on November 21 and is an official team blog from the London 2012 Olympic leadership team. The description says: This site will act as a blog for…
Simon Dickson has created a great mash-up of UK MPs using Google maps and theyworkforyou.com. As Simon says one of the most impressive things about this is how quick and easy it was for him to do this – compared…
In the UK the police are proving to be some of the most innovative users of social media including blogs and video sharing. The chief constable of North Wales Police is probably the most senior public sector officer to blog…
