For many people, the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 was a wake-up call. If groups like QAnon seemed far-away and abstract before, they don’t anymore: We have now watched on television as the real-world results of…
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How should think tanks deal with the problem of misinformation?
Tagged with: digital communications, disinformation, events, research communications, social media, storytelling
Posted in breakfast club, Events
Posted in breakfast club, Events
Five Things We Learned About Reaching Audiences in The New Normal
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way households, institutions, and think tanks are run, leading to what has become a new “normal”. Learn how to engage audiences during this time.
Tagged with: Covid-19, events, external communications, stakeholder engagement
Posted in breakfast club, Events
Posted in breakfast club, Events
Five Things We Learned About Communicating Research (and one bonus thing)
Is your research having the impact you want? If you’re like most of us, your answer is probably no. Learn how you can change that.
Five Things We Learned About Online Events
The inaugural edition of a new series on digital think tanking kicked off with an online event on—what else?—online events.
Posted in breakfast club, Events
WonkComms Breakfast Club: Tackling a taboo
Fri 8 June 2018, 08:30 – 10:30 Soapbox Communications, 126 Back Church Lane, London, E1 1FH BOOK NOW Comms can be a tricky discipline at the best of times. But what if the policy area you cover is one that the media considers left-field?…
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Five things we’ve learned about blogging
The blog has become a vital – and ubiquitous – part of the think tank’s publishing platform. Offering experts and researchers the chance to convey their insights in a digestible and (hopefully) accessible way, a blog post can be an…
Five Things We Learned about Crisis Communications
Crisis Communications is a lot like fire alarms and seatbelts: you hope you’ll never need any of them, but it would be foolhardy to go without. Responding to a crisis in a timely and honest way could actually raise your…
Tagged with: breakfast club, crisis comms, event, media, press
Posted in breakfast club, Events, Opinion
Posted in breakfast club, Events, Opinion
WonkComms Breakfast Club: responding a comms crisis
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 a regular opportunity to get together and discuss some of the big…
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The digital think tank in a ‘post-truth’ age: WonkComms In Conversation with David Nassar
18.30 (registration from 18.15), Wednesday 11 October 2017 Chatham House, 10 St James’s Square, London SW1Y 4LE We are delighted to welcome David Nassar, Vice President for Communications at the Brookings Institution, to discuss digital publishing, the future of online…
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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…
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