Pickle Jar Communications

In my role as Events Officer for the CIPR Education and Skills Sector Group, I have been organising a conference on the role that new media plays in crisis communications. I am very excited about this conference because we have such a great line up: – Peter Reader, University of Portsmouth (and all-round crisis comms [...]

I had a wry smile to myself today as I read Tariq Tahir’s article in the THES, ‘The Queen for a Day’. Reading others’ experiences of hosting a royal visit took me back a few years to a former role at the University of Warwick. It’s not quite to the scale of Joan Concannon’s experience [...]

Tomorrow we’re holding the final of the Fast Forward series for Ideas for Life TV. Not only have I been production manager for this project, but I have also had to be event manager too pulling together all the various strands to make it work. I have to say, I’m feeling quite sad that it [...]

Last week I attended a discussion event hosted by the CIPR’s Health sector group. The event focused mostly on the impact of media (print media in the main) on patients and patient groups. However, a speaker from the Parkinson’s Society through up an interesting point. Discussing their reactions to stories about medical developments or “breakthroughs” [...]