The line between freedom and chaos is astonishingly thin, I’ve recently discovered. Handed the mandate to set up a communications function for The Social Innovation Partnership, I’ve occasionally struggled to stay the right side of that divide. Now a year…
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Prize Question: Why do UK Think Tanks not Communicate Who Funds Them?
Why are British think tanks so much less transparent than those in the U.S., Germany, Kenya or Georgia? Why don’t British think tanks just go ahead and disclose who funds them, with how much, and for what purposes?
EVENT: Storytelling in Research Communications
Invitation to a ‘WonkComms Practicals’ webinar on 28 May 2014 ECDPM is pleased to announce the next WonkComms event, a ‘WonkComms Practical’ webinar, being broadcast and livestreamed on 28 May 2014 from 15.00-17.00 (Central European Time) on storytelling for research communications. Karen…
Powerful storytelling: how comms stole the show
What revolutionary digital communications tool had a communications specialist at the Indian Institute of Health Management Research (IIHMR) in Kolkata employed that had single-handedly creating the biggest event buzz in a roomful of 100 academics and activists at the most prestigious university in India? A camera and a 20 year-old technique. That’s what.
Tagged with: communication, communications, digital communications, emotional communication, messages, multimedia, narrative, online, photography, stories
Posted in Guidance, Opinion
Posted in Guidance, Opinion
An engineering PR campaign unlike any other
While accustomed to the media spotlight, it is fair to say none of us at The Institution of Mechanical Engineers had experienced the the full blown media storm we caused in January 2013 with the launch of the Global Food: Waste Not, Want Not report.
Tagged with: awards, communications, media, messages, press, publications, research communications, strategy
Posted in Opinion
Posted in Opinion
EVENT: Wonkcomms teams and skill sets: what does the future hold?
The last three WonkComms events considered the ‘why’, ‘what’, ‘how’ and ‘where’ of think tank communications. This event turned its attention to ‘who’ – the human resources think tanks can call on for their communications, what skills are needed to progress in the sector and how to develop them.
Tagged with: communication, communications, digital communications, events, human resources, staff, strategy, think tank, think tanks
Posted in Events
Posted in Events
Has twitter killed the media star? (or How I stopped worrying and learned to love social media)
Back at the end of the last millennium my biggest preoccupation at work was how to secure more column inches for my employer…. Ten years on social media had firmly established itself as a channel through which you could tell your stories and engage key opinion formers. But this was a slow transition and an organisations’ ability to pitch stories into traditional media outlets remained of paramount importance.
Tagged with: communication, communications, digital communications, digital strategy, media, social media, strategy, twitter
Posted in Opinion
Posted in Opinion
VIDEOS: Research in the digital age: wonk or comms?
Videos from last week’s event are now available. The event considered the following questions: Is there is a danger in modern think tanks that the communications tail wags the research dog? Is there value in preserving the traditional think tank publication? Should communications be seen as a means to an end or as an end in itself? And is the nature of research changing because of the rapidly changing communications environment?
