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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…
Planning for impact: five things we learned
Another month, another WonkComms Breakfast Club. The topic this time? That most intractable of WonkComms challenges: planning. As always, there was more discussion than can be summed up in one blog. But we can sum up the key take-aways from the discussion.
Tagged with: breakfast club, internal communications, media, news planning, planning, strategy
Posted in Events, Guidance
Posted in Events, Guidance
Breakfast Club: Marketing emails
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…
Coffee, croissants and comms. What could be a better way to start your day in #wonkcomms?
We’re very pleased to announce the first in a new series of small London-based events for the policy communications community. The first session ‘Targeting Parliament’ looks at how to reach MPs and peers given the changing party political makeup of both Houses, with particular reference to APPGs and select committees.
Tagged with: breakfast club, government, media, mps, parliament, politics, public affairs, research communications, think tanks
Posted in Events
Posted in Events
Holiday Social: 15 December!
There have been a few changes behind the scenes here at WonkComms. As some of you will know, Leonora is off to have a baby, and Richard has moved to Nairobi. While Leonora, Richard, and Nick will continue to be…
Posted in Events
Catch up with our recent event on impact
On Wednesday we were kindly hosted by the Wellcome Trust to run a WonkComms event on think tank impact. With a *stella(r)* (geddit?) line up including MP Stella Creasy, the IFS’s Jonathan Wood, WonkComms original Nick Scott and the IFG’s Dr…
EVENT LIVE NOW: Packing a punch: what impact means for think tanks
This panel discussion will explore what impact means for think tanks
Election Fever: The Role of Think Tanks in the Election
On Wednesday 26 November, we were fortunate to host a WonkComms event at our Southbank offices, bringing together a panel of hacks, wonks and wonkcomm-ers, to discuss the role of think tanks in the upcoming General Election.
