Making social media work harder for your organisation: a presentation #FEWJW2012
Yesterday I had the pleasure of speaking at the What Journalists Want Conference for the Further Education sector. As always, it was an excellent programme pulled together by the lovely Janet Murray and Louise Tickle of Last Word Events. In the session I spoke about the need to be strategic in any approach to communications, ...
Friday Favourites: Pixlr
I’m quite a visual person. I can spend hours trawling through instagram and Pinterest. And it goes without saying that in my line of work I also have a fair amount of need to work with images. Whether it’s something as simple as sharing screen grabs or creating title pages for our client strategy documents, ...
Dear Parent. Your child ate a raisin. This is intolerable.
This is one of those things that drops into your inbox and needs nothing doing other than to copy and paste it into a blog post. This is a real email sent by a teacher to a parent, bearing the subject line “Incident in the science lab” (in fact, it was sent to several ...
Are we using the right words?
It’s all too quick and easy when we’re bashing out a tweet to invite prospective students to our open day by saying something like “If you are a prospective student, come to our open day this weekend”. On the surface this is a seemingly innocent tweet with really nothing wrong with it. But I often ...
Friday Favourites: My new found love for Tweetdeck
In the beginning I only had eyes for Tweetdeck. I laughed in the face of Twitter updates sent from other devices, and felt sorry for those who knew not of this magical software. I loved the dark sinister magpie like bird, and felt that surely there was no sleeker way to read tweets than through this ...
Covering CASE Europe Annual Conference 28-31 August 2012 #CEAC2012
This week John Hill and I will be representing Pickle Jar Communications at the CASE Europe Annual Conference. But suffice to say, we can’t just go and do a couple of speaking slots and discussion sessions. Oh no. Instead, we’re taking over the reins of CASE Europe’s social media activity for the week to help ...