If you’re a Chartered Institute of Public Relations member, you’ll have recently received voting slips with the recent issue of Profile magazine. This year there are two candidates for the institute’s 2010 president elect: Paul Mylrea MCIPR,...

On Wednesday, 4 November I’m running a public sector social media course in Birmingham with my friends at Public Sector Forums. I’ve designed the course for people working in public sector communications and engagement teams who need to know more...

I’m up in Edinburgh today presenting to the Chartered Institute of Public Relations local public services group. I get plenty of emails after conferences asking for the slides, so in the interests of sharing knowledge you’ll find them below. They’re...

For a while now I’ve been promoting the value of local government opening up its doors to the use of data more openly on the web. Freeing the immense amount of data held in councils, police and local health services has the potential to generate...

PR student Amanda Dee is researching how social media can help organisations communicate more effectively with young people. If you have a spare few minutes please do help her out by completing her...