Posts tagged ‘social media’

PR and the media, tutor Kate Lomax shares views from the annual conference.

What lessons can we learn from the way that the Blackberry crisis has been handled?

Who is doing the talking on your social media platforms? Maud Davis shares some insights she gained at the recent CorpComms magazine social media conference.

PR people are often judged by their contacts rather than their intellectual rigour. This needs to change.

Why blocking social media in organisations is pointless.

Nevousness on the part of senior managers is the main blocker to using social media for internal communication. That’s the finding of our quick survey. In advance of our next Social Media for Internal Communication training day and the launch of our new course on digital communication, we wanted to find out what challenges internal [...]

Online crisis management was the third and final of our spring series of lunchtime alumni webinars.  In the chair with lots of sound advice and best practice principles was Roberta Knowles of Regester Larkin. Roberta began by outlining what crisis management is about: responding well to difficult circumstances, well rehearsed procedures, doing the right thing by stakeholders and [...]

We’ve been running a series of webinars this spring for our alumni. Simon Collister of We Are Social has just run a fab session for us on social media strategy. I thought it might be nice to share some of the things that I took away from his session. Simon reminded us that, as with any [...]

High excitement here in the PR Academy office as the launch of our first book – Exploring Internal Communication – approaches next week (15 July). So excited are we that the book has its own website: http://www.exploringinternalcommunication.com. Kevin has edited it and also written a fair bit of the text and we have some great [...]