A lot of think tanks and research organisations end up using a submarine strategy. They don’t do it deliberately. It’s just what happens, by default, in the absence of a communications strategy. Left to their own devices, think tanks and…
Everything I Needed to Know about Online Content I Learned from Making Mixtapes
I was never particularly good at making mixtapes—my teenage musical tastes were too uncultured, my town too small to support more than your standard country/classic rock/top–40 radio stations, and my working-class parents too poor to support much of a music-buying…
Five Things We Learned About DIY Data Vis
If you work in communications at a think tank or a research organisation, being able to create data visualisations in-house is a useful string to your bow. At the eighth Breakfast Club, we got together to discuss different types…
Breakfast club: DIY data vis
In this Breakfast Club, we will talk about the basics of creating good data visualisations, where the data stops being just numbers and starts telling stories, explaining facts and advancing arguments.
Five things we learnt at ‘Animations with impact’
Our seventh WonkComms Breakfast Club event was about creating animations with impact. This was a popular topic and places were snapped up within days of the event being announced on Twitter @WonkComms. For ‘Animations with impact’, we were joined by Johanna Schwartz,…
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Breakfast club: Animations with impact
Coffee, croissants and comms. What could be a better way to start your day in #wonkcomms? WonkComms have teamed up with Soapbox to offer the UK WonkComms community an regular opportunity to get together and discuss some of the big…
Five things we learned about using tech at events
We’ve wanted to run a WonkComms event on ‘events’ for a while. As communicating digitally outstrips face-to-face interaction, there’s something special and enduring about getting a bunch of people together in the same place, at the same time, to exchange…
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WonkComms Breakfast Club: Using Tech at Events
Wed 8 February 2017 08:00 – 10:00 GMT Soapbox Communications Ltd 128 Southwark Street London, SE1 0SW Coffee, croissants and comms. What could be a better way to start your day in #wonkcomms? WonkComms have teamed up with Soapbox to offer…
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Five ways to get your story on TV or radio
Getting your story onto TV and radio is a notoriously tough part of any communications manager’s job. Sometimes it can seem almost impossible, especially for smaller think tanks and policy organisations, to catch the attention of broadcasters. So how can…
WonkComms Breakfast Club: Getting your story on TV or Radio
Coffee, croissants and comms. What could be a better way to start your day in #wonkcomms? WonkComms have teamed up with Soapbox to offer the UK WonkComms community an regular opportunity to get together and discuss some of the big challenges of…
