Posted on TikTok is no longer a fringe platform. It’s becoming mainstream and amongst the vanguard of public sector comms teams now using it are South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue in the UK who have 100,000 followers on the platform. In this post, Campaigns Manager Jack Grasby shares some of the secrets of their success. By Jack […]
Posted on ‘We’re a data driven organisation’, many organisations boast before throwing the data out of the window when it comes to ordering staff to return to the office, post pandemic If you work in Government you may have observed Jacob Rees-Mogg, Minister for Government Efficiency, touring offices to count the number of civil servants at their […]
Posted on It’s a useful exercise I sometimes do after a particularly rapid period. For some reason, it was the questions that people asked during training that really stuck with me. I was reflecting on how my answers are often around what questions they can ask of the people they work with. All of that points to the […]
Posted on Connor McLoughlin, Wokingham Borough Council. LinkedIn? Shouldn’t we give control to HR? That’s where people go to find a new job right?’ Sure, it can be used for recruitment, it’s where people go to talk about work after all. But LinkedIn is a legitimate news feed. And it’s one where we can adjust our messages to […]
Posted on ‘He’s an escapist’, the writer Nathaniel West once wrote, ‘he wants to cultivate his interior garden.’ What is striking is that everyone has a tolerance for coronavirus news and especially if you’re in the public sector communicating it. At times, a 24-hour flow of information can intoxicate. If only, you think, if I keep reading […]
Posted on You may have seen the very warm public response Yorkshire Tea got this week after enduring some severe trolling. If you missed it, the brand got a kicking after the Chancellor Rishi Sunak was pictured with a big bag of tea bags. The attack follows a backlash at Heck Sausages for hosting Boris Johnson. In […]
Posted on There’s a cracking cartoon that tackles the problem of mental health in the workplace. “We know that mental health is a problem,” the boss says “so we’re changing things.” “What?” says the worker. “You’re taking on enough people to help me actually do my job without feeling burnt out?” “No,” the boss replies. “We thought […]
Posted on Earlier this year a dam burst near the Brazilian town of Belo Horizonte and within minutes 40 were dead and 300 missing buried under thick brown sludge. In the UK, its been almost 100 years since loss of life from a dam burst from any of our almost 3,000 dams. In August 2019, it nearly […]
Posted on This week you may have come across the Twitter rant unleashed by the employee of an MP. Gareth Arnold took the unusual step of handing his notice in by posting thread of tweets from the account of Jared O’Mara MP he had access to. It was oddly polarising. It was greeted as a glorious ‘f*** […]
Posted on I was involved in a conversation about a communications strategy a short while back and it made me think. Firstly, it made me think that its great for communications to be involved at all. But it also reminded me of the icebergs that looms when you are involved with communications. Any of the icebergs can rip […]