Grassroot activists are often up against it – taking on institutions with resources and connections well beyond their own. But that doesn’t mean they don’t have advantages they can use. In fact it’s often activists who have to bootstrap that…
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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: 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
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
Never mind the X Factor this is the So What Factor
Why we shouldn’t let them kill the policy brief like they did the press release.
Tagged with: business change, digital content, digital publishing, media, PDF, policy brief, policy briefs, research communications
Posted in Opinion
Posted in Opinion
The wonkcomms crystal ball: Five things 2015 will bring for think tank communications
This time last year Nick, Richard and I recapped over the year in wonkcomms, looking back at thirteen tools think tank communicators used to promote and publicise their work. I was struck by the sheer diversity and creativity of the…
Tagged with: communication, digital publishing, election, media, PDF, strategy
Posted in Uncategorized
Posted in Uncategorized
How a poll can change the world
What’s the most generous country in the world? Who does the most for good causes? Answering that simple (but quite difficult) question has led us to provoke debate round the globe and opened the door to some quite profound discussions about how the world is changing and how it could change for the better.
Making ‘Cities Outlook’ the issue of the day
Every think tank comms professional dreams of making their annual publication the story du jour. I know many of you will be familiar with those first moments when you wake up and nervously turn on your radio and check your phone…
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
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