The CIPR is launching a qualification for local government communicators.
30 Jan 2009
Butler hit the headlines last week after posting a signed letter from Barack Obama on her website. The letter described Butler as 'bright, intelligent and determined'. She later admitted her staff came up with the words and Obama just signed it.
30 Jan 2009
Agency: The Forster Company
Client: The Home Office
Timescale: Now until April
Budget: Undisclosed
The lowdown A new national anti-knife crime website and series of practical toolkits
for local campaigners have been launched by Home Office minister Meg
Hillier. The move forms part of the Government's...
30 Jan 2009
The Government has told local councils how they can use comms to build a sense of belonging within communities.
29 Jan 2009
| by Paul Mylrea
I spent the weekend marking my Open University students, giving feedback on my daughter's university application and helping my son with his job applications. What did they all have in common? None of them were on their first degree.
Geronimo Communications has rebranded as Kindred.
23 Jan 2009
| by Alex Aiken
Barack Obama's election campaign was a masterclass in political communications, combining the ancient political skill of 'rhetoric' with the latest 'twittering'. His success provides a blueprint for a new approach to public communication.
23 Jan 2009
Agency: 20:20 London
Client: Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) and Central
Office of Information (COI)
Timescale: 9 January-12 June
Budget: £4.6m
23 Jan 2009
| by Matt Cartmell
The Local Government Association (LGA) is helping to form a crisis comms group to advise councils under heavy media scrutiny, with Doncaster Council the latest authority to be thrust into the spotlight.
23 Jan 2009
Directgov begins public service campaign, Blackburn Council posts YouTube video.