Posted on Colin Byrne, CEO of Weber Shandwick UK & EMEA, Paul Frampton, CEO of Havas Media and PRMoment’s Ben Smith joined me in the studio last week for the latest, slightly extended (all three like to chat a bit), CIPR Social Media Panel c-suite podcast. The topic of discussion was The Social CEO. Colin began by making reference to Weber […]
Posted on Tweet When we introduced For Immediate Release on January 3, 2005, we had no idea we’d still be podcasting more than a decade later. We didn’t know what the state of podcasting would be, that the scope of FIR would expand, or that podcast networks would be a thing. When we started, we just needed […]
Posted on Tweet Communicators struggle to build genuine online engagement among employees using the various social tools available for intranets. Study after study shows that few employees use these tools, regardless of how much they might be engaged with external social media. At Bank of Montreal, though, Julian Mills overcame the obstacles to introduce social tools employees […]
Posted on Facebook post boosting is considered to be good value, but if you’re looking for tips on how best to utilise it from your peers, you might be out of luck. That seems to be the conclusion from recent research I carried out. A couple of weeks ago, I published a survey among my networks to […]
Posted on Social media has played a big part in the 2015 election, none more so than for many community and charity groups. It’s a communications channel that lends itself to political engagement, its instant, impactful and its cost-effective. Some of the more notable grass roots campaigns lobbying our prospective MPs have come from the disability community […]
Posted on The FT’s Maija Palmer recently looked at chief executives who are on Twitter. The article quoted Linda Bolg of Socialbro who said ‘I would personally always advise (the CEO) being on Twitter as it can raise the company profile’. It was great to see social media being covered from a strategic perspective rather than as […]