Public Sector: Children inspire Murray's homecoming
13 Dec 2012 | by Kate Magee
After tennis player Andy Murray won the US Open Men's Singles, his first Grand Slam title, Stirling Council wanted to organise a homecoming celebration.
Councillors have been called on to increase their use of social media, after research revealed just a third currently embraced online comms.
After tennis player Andy Murray won the US Open Men's Singles, his first Grand Slam title, Stirling Council wanted to organise a homecoming celebration.
The Government's new comms set-up has once again been delayed, with a deluge of agency responses blamed for the hold-up.
Wednesday's Autumn Statement from the Chancellor points to a protracted period of public spending reductions. This is likely to continue until 2020.
The Skills Funding Agency has called in Kindred to help promote further education.
The world's first social investment bank has called in corporate and public affairs advice as it continues its drive to ramp up the market in the UK.
An organisation representing barristers has brought in Mark Borkowski to help it take its fight against legal aid cuts into the mainstream media.
The BBC has drafted in former longstanding comms director Donald Steel to help the broadcaster cope with the fallout from the Jimmy Savile scandal.
This is the time of year that offices traditionally enter a kind of light trance as major projects are completed, Christmas holiday rotas are signed off and - that undeniable sign that the festival season has really arrived - the date of the company Christmas party is fixed. The wind down has begun.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has appointed John Duncan as comms director, a year after the department scrapped the role.